The Research @ WPI October 2025 Newsletter has arrived in inboxes.  In This Issue Magnet industry outlook: Team maps challenges and opportunities in rare earth magnet recycling Maternal health: Research on lab-based placenta models aims to improve detection and treatment of pregnancy complications Studying neuropeptides: Microbial approach could guide development of new peptide therapies Muscle mechanics: Mathematical model explains muscle force and cellular behavior Explosion safety: Training experts to prevent and mitigate destructive explosions Capstone long-term impacts: Research demonstrates link between project work and successful careers View the entire issue online here. If you missed it and you would like to sign up for the next newsletter, you can fill out this form.

The Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) had its 10^th year Industry Advisory Board meeting at WPI on October 8-10, 2025.  There were 75 participants with more than half from industry and the rest students and faculty from WPI and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (CARD co-site).  CARD is an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center that was established in 2016.

This month's focus is ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI), In SECURE IT we highlight best practices, and provide a few cautions. October is also Cybersecurity Awareness month!  We are grateful to Raha Moraffah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, for this month’s feature article on Social Engineering Attacks in the Era of Generative AI. In this issue: From WPI's CISTO: AI Interim Policy Using AI at WPI Social Engineering Attacks in the Era of Generative AI Cybersecurity Awareness Month & Where to Find Information Security? Examples of AI in Everyday Life AI Creating Hard to Detect Phishing Emails Learning with Laughter Meet LeeAnn LeClerc! Featured Videos & In the News By the Numbers Diversity in Cybersecurity Additional WPI Resources  

University Analytics has completed the Fall 2025 census. Admissions, enrollment, completions, and persistence dashboards have been updated and are available on the Data Dashboards webpage within the Office of Strategic Initiatives & University Analytics website. Two dashboard sets are available: Public Data Dashboards – Basic university data WPI Community Dashboards – Login required; includes enhanced detail and filters for WPI community members For questions, please contact: university-analytics@wpi.edu

The deadline to submit Wellness Day events is coming up! Events submitted after October 21st won't be in printed materials. Events submitted after October 28th will not be approved. Click for submission form.

After a successful IQP collaboration between WPI students John DePalma, Tanisha Gupta, Brett Mann, Sophia Reynolds, and Heidelberg Instruments Nano, a nanolithography company based in Zürich, the project group was invited to present their findings at the ASEE conference this past summer in Montreal, Canada.   Tanisha states: "This was a huge learning opportunity and an incredible experience getting to share our research at an academic conference. We also had the opportunity to learn about other poster presenters and their work, attend keynote sessions and talks and network with industry and university representatives."  The students extend their thanks to Nicholas Hendricks and Emine Cagin for help with conference material, Heidelberg Instruments Nano and Deans Arne Gericke and John McNeill for providing the team with funding. And, to IQP advisors Carolina Ruiz, Jeffrey Solomon and Nancy Burnham whose invaluable guidance throughout this project also yielded two publications: "Fabricating the Invisible: A Case Study of Observing Nano with the NanoFrazor" and "Seeing is Believing - How the NanoFrazor Generates and Sees Nano in Real Time."  Be sure to stop by Olin 219 to see a cloth replica of the students' poster presentation on display.