In this episode, we sit down with WPI’s Athletic Director to explore what it really means to be a student-athlete at one of the nation’s top STEM universities. With college sports making headlines nationwide, we take a closer look at the Division III experience at WPI — where academics come first, teamwork is essential, and the lessons learned on the field connect directly to WPI’s project-based learning approach.
We talk about balance, motivation, competition, community, and why being part of a team at WPI is about much more than winning games. It’s about collaboration, leadership, and preparing students for life after graduation.
In this episode, we sit down with WPI’s Athletic Director to explore what it really means to be a student-athlete at one of the nation’s top STEM universities. With college sports making headlines nationwide, we take a closer look at the Division III experience at WPI — where academics come first, teamwork is essential, and the lessons learned on the field connect directly to WPI’s project-based learning approach.
We talk about balance, motivation, competition, community, and why being part of a team at WPI is about much more than winning games. It’s about collaboration, leadership, and preparing students for life after graduation.
This academic year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is celebrating 50 years of the Global Projects Program. Through the program, students conduct academic and research projects off campus at more than 50 WPI project centers on six continents for entire terms at a time. In this episode of The WPI Podcast, the co-directors of WPI’s Melbourne, Australia, Project Center share their experience and reflections on what these off-campus projects mean for students, project sponsors, and themselves. Guests: Lorraine Higgins, a teaching professor, and Stephen McCauley, an associate professor of teaching, are both in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at WPI. You may also read the transcript below.