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A Silent Epidemic: Families Call for Radical Change After Cluster of Suicides at WPI

By Nana Muazin

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June 13, 2026

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For Maureen Banavige, the fall of 2021 remains a fractured memory. Her son, Ronan, was a freshman at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a school he chose for his intellectual curiosity and passion for computer science. He was a young man of “kind and…