Interdisciplinary Groups

At WPI, our greatest strength is our people. We are home to a passionate community of faculty members and researchers who are dedicated to using their talents, expertise, and intellectual curiosity to solve the most complex of the world's great problems. Whether in the classroom or the lab, we embrace and encourage robust collaboration across disciplines, divisions, and organizations—recognizing the potential to make important impacts is multiplied when talents and passions are applied. This is a community called to use our scientific and technological knowledge and research for the greater good.  

As a part of this collective vision of a better future, our faculty, staff, and researchers are building dedicated communities in four interdisciplinary areas where the university has well-established strengths. The four areas are Smart World, Materials Reimagined (MatR), BioPoint, and Global Initiatives (see below for more info). By eliminating silos, these boundary-breaking communities are fostering interdisciplinary scholarship and research, providing opportunities for faculty members to work together in creative—and even unconventional—ways, and strengthening WPI’s ability to make lives better.