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Climate Stories: Using transmedia storytelling to connect ethnographies of climate change across WPI project center sites

WPI has an extraordinary opportunity to leverage our student project sites around the world to build a platform for sharing voices and perspectives on meaningful topics. Recording climate change stories engages students with communities on a topic of universal urgency, and in ways that transcend common barriers. The experiences of ordinary people on the ground have not always been solicited in planning for adaptation strategies or in other official narratives and metrics about climate change. We hear about the crisis more frequently in broad terms, such as with regard to policy decisions, or in the context of action (deniers vs activists).

APPLYING AXIOMATIC DESIGN TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING PROCESS: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Development

The current pharmaceutical manufacturing approval process was originally established under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act in 1938. And while the requirements have changed and been updated, what it looks for has remained mostly the same. This means that industry has mostly continued reusing tried and true methods to address the requirements put forward. Due to the recent prevalence of the sped-up process that the COVID-19 vaccine there has been conversation on how to change and update both the requirement on the regulatory side and how industry creatively addresses those requirements. We are using Axiomatic Design to break down the current process, what happened to the COVID-19 vaccine, and what lessons were learned from the analysis of the processes. The recommendations provided focus on how industry can better address some of the current requirements and shorten the process on their side, but the analysis also provides a breakdown on how regulations can be improved to better address the need.

Supporting Women in Data Science via the Women in Data Science Symposium: Fostering Diversity, Community, Mentorship, Outreach, and Global Impact—all in one!

The global Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference will inspire students and professionals by featuring exclusively female speakers at more than 100 concurrent locations worldwide. WPI WiDS, as the Central Massachusetts satellite, serves as local hub for mentoring, networking, and inspiring WPI’s community of students, faculty, and professionals with a keynote, career panel, tech talks, poster session, hands-on table projects, and data competitions. The committed group is passionate about bringing this inspiring program to WPI as an annual event.