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🔒Energy Summit: How to ease the economy off its addiction to fossil fuels

When it comes to reaching the state’s renewable energy goals, cross-sector collaboration is the name of the game, according to speakers and panelists at WBJ’s 2023 Mass Energy Summit.

🔒Level up: Fitchburg State’s game design program puts it near forefront of $57B industry

Fitchburg State's game design program positions students and the school near the forefront of a $57 billion industry.

WPI dean named to NIH council, to help make research recommendations

Jean King, the dean of school of arts and sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been named to a top council at the National Institutes of Health.

WPI partners with Nigerian university on business analytics education

Beginning in the fall semester, Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with the Nigerian University of Technology and Management to offer its master’s degree in business analytics alongside NUTM’s professional certification in design thinking leadership principles.
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🔒Diagnosing AI: Healthcare community excited, wary of artificial intelligence

With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias

🔒University entrepreneurship programs help undergrad startup bring power to Indonesian fish farms

A company founded by Worcester undergrads aims to supply rural communities with an inexpensive local source of electricity.

🔒Central Mass. life sciences research spans from alpacas to AI

Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

WPI professor awarded $430K for heart valve research

Kristen Billiar, researcher and department head for biomedical research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to research how blood flow impacts engineered heart valves.
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Grace Wang begins tenure as WPI president

Grace Wang started on Monday as president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the first person of color to lead WPI on a non-interim basis.

Study: Central Mass. private colleges have $3.8B in economic impact

The Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts found the eight schools it represents in Central Massachusetts account for $3.8 billion in economic impact and 18,800 jobs.
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