Halloween costumes, new faculty members, pumpkins galore, and even a little snow—it was all at WPI, and all in October. Grab a handful of leftover Halloween candy and check out what else the WPI community was up to this month.
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Pumpkin painting, spin art, music, and more—students who stayed on campus during the term break had no shortage of things to do (when they weren’t sleeping in and recharging for B-Term, of course).
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Dean of Undergraduate Studies Art Heinricher’s new office hours are a walk in the park ... or, well, in this case, on the campus.
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Space pup Hudson: astronaut, goat herder, pumpkin judge, good boy.
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Haunted Higgins House had a new look this year as students took part in a week-long murder-mystery event spread out around the entire campus.
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We welcomed 19 new faculty members to the WPI community this year, with expertise in everything from machine learning to jazz studies.
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It’s been an unconventional year, but one thing we can always count on? Campus coming through with that stunning foliage.
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The show must go on, and it did—Arts & Sciences Department Head Kate Moncrief and Emily Baker ‘22 directed WPI’s production of Every Brilliant Thing, starring Fiona Doyle ‘21, as part of this year’s Arts & Sciences Week.
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WPI’s athletes participated in the NCAA’s Diversity & Inclusion Week with some notes of encouragement to their teammates and peers.
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Socially distanced band practice? Socially distanced band practice.
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We didn’t expect to have to break out the shovels and snowplows this early in the season, but that’s 2020 for you.
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Back in 2018, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology Natalie Farny and seven current and former WPI undergraduates were part of a group of 244 labs around the world that demonstrated a new way to estimate the number of bacteria in a liquid sample. Their work was recently reported in Communications Biology.
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Have a safe and fun Halloween we did.