Have questions regarding your retirement with WPI? Meet with a representative from TIAA and discuss 1:1 with them your retirement options. All meetings are confidential. All individuals are required to register beforehand.

Looking for a way to make your day less stressful and more mindful...take some much-needed time for yourself and join us for Mindful Wednesdays! Drop-in meditation sessions are open to the entire WPI community, and no experience is necessary. A certified meditation teacher will offer guided meditations appropriate for both beginners as well as experienced meditators. People can join in person or via zoom.

Saranga: milliWatt Ultrasound System for 3D Navigation in Visually Degraded Environments Abstract: Tiny autonomous aerial robots face severe limitations in sensing capability due to payload and power constraints, making robust 3D navigation in visually degraded environments extremely challenging. In this work, we propose Saranga, a lightweight, low-power ultrasonic 3D obstacle localization stack for aerial robots. Propellers generate ultrasonic noise that limits the efficacy of ultrasound systems on aerial platforms, for which I proposed a two-step solution: (1) a physical acoustic shield that mitigates propeller noise, and (2) a deep neural network that denoises echoes and estimates obstacle positions by reconstructing the impulse response of the scene. This talk will focus on the sensor suite configuration, denoising technique, synthetic data generation process, and the 3D trilateration method, along with comparisons against classical denoising and edge detection techniques. We demonstrate that the system enables reliable operation under low light, fog, transparent obstacles, and snow—conditions where conventional sensing modalities such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar fail—paving the way for robust all-weather perception in tiny aerial robots.Advisor: Professor Nitin SantekZoom link: https://wpi.zoom.us/my/vmanoj1996

Looking for a way to make your day less stressful and more mindful...take some much-needed time for yourself and join us for Mindful Thursdays! Drop-in meditation sessions are open to the entire WPI community, and no experience is necessary. A certified meditation teacher will offer guided meditations appropriate for both beginners as well as experienced meditators. People can join in person or via zoom. Mindful Thursdays: 2:15PM to 2:35PM Center for Well-Being, Daniels Hall 102E Zoom: https://wpi.zoom.us/j/186050714 Each Friday an email will be sent out to the group called Mindfulness Tools To-Go which will include information about meditations, poems shared during the week, and mindful resources. If you have questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact Robin Benoit, rbenoit@wpi.edu

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The STEM Education Center is pleased to be hosting a free community screening and conversation of the Counted Out film, a powerful documentary that interrogates the way math is taught in schools and explores how math shapes everything from economic opportunity to democracy. @CountedOutDoc #CountedOut #ReImagineMathWatch the trailer and register. K–14 educators are especially encouraged to join us for this screening and discussion. Raffle and door prizes will be available for K–12 teachers.SynopsisIn our current information economy, math is everywhere. The people we date, the news we see, the influence of our votes, the candidates who win elections, the education we have access to, the jobs we get—all of it is underwritten by an invisible layer of math that few of us understand, or even notice.But whether we know it or not, our numeric literacy—whether we can speak the language of math—is a critical determinant of social and economic power.Through a mosaic of personal stories, expert interviews, and scenes of math transformation in action, Counted Out shows what’s at risk if we keep the status quo. Do we want an America in which most of us don���t consider ourselves “math people”? Where math proficiency goes down as students grow up? Or do we want a country where everyone can understand the math that undergirds our society—and can help shape it?ParkingParking is available at any of the WPI visitor parking lots. The closest lot to the WPI Fuller Laboratory, Fuller Upper Perreault Hall, is the Library / Boynton Parking Lot - North. There is additional parking at Park Ave Garage, located at 151 Salisbury Street, Worcester.

Join ODIME on Fridays from 12:00-2:00pm ET in OASIS House for milk and freshly baked cookies! For more information or accommodations, please contact ODIME at diversity@wpi.edu. All are welcome!

Please share with your students/anyone who might be interested in participating in this event! Dear WPI Community-On Saturday, November 15, WPI and Holy Cross will host Hack for Human Impact at WPI. This is a one-day innovation sprint where engineering and liberal arts students join forces to turn civic data into human-centered solutions. Supported by the Massachusetts AI Hub, Worcester’s CTO, state leadership, alumni, and industry partners, the event marks a first-of-its-kind collaboration that brings together technical expertise, ethical perspective, and civic purpose to shape the future of responsible AI and data use in Massachusetts.All experience levels and students in other majors are more than welcome to participate! 4-6 participants maximum per team - come with your team already established (each participant must register) OR we can assist you in finding a team the morning of if you wish to particiapte but dont have a team!Please register using the link below!Highlights:Apply your skills in cross-disciplinary teamsGain hands-on experience with real civic dataPresent directly to faculty experts from WPI and Holy Cross, alumni, government, and industry leadersGift Card (Visa) PRIZES - Mixed Teams, max of 4-6 participants1ST Place - $100.00 each person on the team2ND Place - $75.00 each person on the team3RD Place - $50.00 each person on the teamUndergraduate Prize - $75.00 each person on the team(NOTE: all participants must be undergraduate students, and cannot be combined with another prize level) Lunch/snacks provided throughout the day + give-away items!Faculty and Industry Mentors: This event is designed to model what collaboration between liberal arts and technical disciplines can look like, where creativity, data, and ethics come together to shape a new kind of innovation culture for Massachusetts.We’re honored to have incredible partners helping make this possible:Faculty and graduate student mentors from WPI and Holy CrossShauna Conway, Strategic Growth and Innovation, LLC (HC '04)Jason Snyder, Secretary of Technology Services and Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will open the event alongside Worcester City Manager Eric Batista.Sabrina Mansur from the Massachusetts AI Hub will share how this work aligns with the state’s growing AI ecosystem and workforce initiatives.The Sundai Club, a nonprofit with roots in the MIT and Harvard communities, will help facilitate the student challenges.Students will leverage real-world data through the Massachusetts Data Commons, with access to compute resources and Snowflake environments to power their projects.Event Details:Date: Saturday, November 15th, 2025Time: 8:30am - 4:00pmLocation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Unity Hall 4th FloorAddress: 27 Boynton Street, Worcester, MA 01609 Additional reminders will be distributed leading up to the event along with a parking pass and relevant day of event details. Student Registration: To access the participation registration form, use the QR Code found on the flyer.Questions? Email Kelsey Briggs at kbriggs2@wpi.edu.

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Join Our Monthly AI User Group Brown Bag Lunch!Curious about AI? Join faculty, staff, and students for an informal monthly gathering where we explore the opportunities, challenges, and real-world applications of artificial intelligence across campus and beyond.Each month we'll dive into a featured AI theme, but the conversation is yours to shape—bring your questions, experiences, and ideas. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, skeptical observer, or somewhere in between, your perspective adds value to our dialogue.What to expect:Relaxed, collaborative discussions in a brown bag formatMonthly themes to spark conversation (with plenty of room to explore tangents!)Open submissions for future discussion topicsA welcoming space for all experience levelsPack your lunch and join us for engaging conversations about how AI is reshaping our work, learning, and daily lives. Together, we'll navigate this rapidly evolving landscape and learn from each other's diverse experiences and viewpoints.

In this workshop, participants will review several styles of written commentary, considering how the type, placement, and quantity of comments on student drafts can affect their revision and learning. Participants will learn and practice with a “reader-based” approach that has the potential to:1) Reduce the time you spend marking student papers2) Model for your students how to better anticipate and respond to a reader's needs3) Help your students become less dependent on your editing and directive feedbackThis workshop is one component of our Project Advising 101 program for faculty new to IQP and MQP advising. The workshop is equally helpful to faculty teaching writing-intensive courses in any discipline, as well as faculty working with graduate students on theses and journal articles. All are welcome to attend!Please register by Tuesday, November 11th, so we can finalize the headcount for lunch.

This session will provide a clear overview of existing travel policies and procedures, with a special focus on the backup documentation required to ensure smooth and timely expense report approvals.https://wpi.zoom.us/j/99216402336

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