United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): WPI Events, Action, and Media on the SDGs

At WPI:

• Global School Forum, 2023-2024
• Climate Action Calendar at WPI 2023
• Earth Day 2022 at WPI - a guide to events, videos, and other resources for observing Earth Day
• Earth Day 2021: Engaging with the SDGs - virtual, April 22, 12-1pm
• Annual Sustainability Project Competition

WPI Institutional Actions and Initiatives

• WPI Sustainability Plan, 2020-2025
• WPI Office of Sustainability
• WPI STARS ranking, 2020 (Gold) - next submission, 2023

WPI Community Actions and Initiatives

• Divest WPI
• Sustainability Lab for Living & Learning (SL3)
• Green Team

Here are just a few highlights and stories about WPI research, teaching, and project work related to the SDGs:

• Contemplating Earth Day 2021 - Professor Joseph Sarkis (April 2021)
• Analytics for Refugee Resettlement (April 2021)
• WPI Launches Pioneering Graduate Program in Community Climate Adaptation (March 2021)
• WPI Receives Another Gold Star for Sustainability (March 2021)
• WPI Chemical Engineers: "Why Not Make Waste Work for Us?" (January 2021)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute Receives Grant to Help Fill Demand for STEM Teachers in High-Need School Districts (January 2021)
• WPI Wins $3 Million Award to Launch Graduate Program Preparing Data-Driven Leaders To Build a More Sustainable and Just Future (December 2020)
• WPI Receives National Honor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts on Campus (September 2020)
• Promoting Sustainability from the Stars (August 2020)
• Students' Design Could Help Turn 1800's Windmill into Modern Wind Energy System (May 2020)
• Panel Discussion "Climate: The Science of Change" Packs Lecture Hall in Fuller Laboratories (February 2020)
• Five Voices of Climate Change (September 2019)
• We are all in the Same Canoe (September 2018)