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WPI student Max Mobley standing next to electric race car. The car is covered in sponsor logos, and Max is wearing a black racing suit and holding a helmet.
Opinion

Can You Build an Electric Race Car?

Few have witnessed or perhaps even conceived of building an electric race car as a capstone or club activity. I’m not talking about Radio Shack remote-controlled battery-operated cars; I’m talking about real race cars designed, built and driven by students.

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Opinion

Stop Letting Trolls Keep You Off the Op-Ed Page

Historian David Perry, who has written hundreds of op-eds, discusses out-of-proportion fears, what he does with hate mail and how your class preparation skills transfer to the page.

An illustration of a woman pole-vaulting toward the top of a set of stairs, suggesting career development and success.
Opinion

Building a Scalable Career Development Accelerator

Students need structured career support and career offices are stretched thin: An asynchronous career preparation program can help fill the gaps.

Opinion

Why I Created the National AI Equity Lab

I see it as my civic duty to ensure that the proliferation of artificial intelligence does not further exacerbate existing inequities in our society.

Opinion

A New Version of the Resource Curse

What does whale oil have to do with the value of the U.S. dollar?

Opinion

From Completion to Continuity: The Answer We’ve Been Working Toward

Higher ed was built for a labor market that no longer exists.

A photo of two chatbot bubbles with the words "AI" and "Agent," against a background of digital text.
Opinion

5 Tips for Assignment Design in the Agentic AI Age

If AI agents can do the homework, what should we grade instead?

A photo of screens displaying the Polymarket logo and the prediction app's home page.
Opinion

What Happens in College Doesn’t Stay in College

The rise of prediction apps on campuses poses major financial risks for an already challenged generation.