Kristin Wobbe is director of WPI’s Center for Project-Based Learning. She has used projects in biochemistry courses, and directed WPI's project-based first year program for 12 years.  Her teaching awards include the Moruzzi Prize for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, and she a co-recipient of the 2016 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education awarded by the National Academy of Engineering. She received her BA in chemistry from St. Olaf College and her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University. She is the co-editor of Project-Based Learning in the First Year: Beyond all Expectations (Stylus, 2019). Other publications appear in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning and Diversity and Democracy.