WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
... The announcement of the award came just a few days before WPI hosted its second annual workshop on Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders. The two-day workshop, held on Aug. 6-7, 2007, is the only national forum for researchers, corpora...WPI team receives $1.8 million to study atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture
WORCESTER, Mass. A research team led by Dalin Tang, professor of mathematical sciences and biomedical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has received a five-year, $1.8 million award from the National Science Foundation to conduct a comprehensive study of the growth, progression, and rupture of human atherosclerotic plaque, a medical condition that is closely related to most car...