Recent Grants
September 2009
The National Science Foundation awarded Bentley University $32,788 for supplemental support for the current research grant, entitled “Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Effective Interorganizational Public Safety Response Infrastructures,” under principal investigator Jane Fedorowicz, Rae C. Anderson Chair in Accountancy, and co-principal investigators M. Lynne Markus, John W. Poduska Senior Professor of Information Management, and Christine Williams, professor of government. The funding will used to support a doctoral student stipend for one-and-a-half years beginning in September 2009. With this supplement, the total award to Bentley for this grant, which has supported additional graduate students, now reaches $497,201.
July 2009
For the second consecutive year, Bentley University received a $180,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to host a Summer Institute for Outstanding European Students from July 12 to August 15, 2009. Twenty undergraduate students from Denmark, France, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden will travel to Bentley to learn about the United States, its people and culture.
May 2009
A gift of $50,000 from Grant Thornton LLP will extend partnerships between Bentley University and nongovernmental organizations in Ghana such as the Mmofra Trom Center. Recipients of Grant Thornton Global Social Responsibility (GSR) Internship awards will work to improve transparency of accounting systems in Ghana. On a more local level, the Grant Thornton Beta Alpha Psi Treasurer’s Training Program will serve students who have taken financial leadership roles in campus organizations. Company officials are teaming up with Beta Alpha Psi members to design and deliver training that will provide student treasurers with basic skills and best practices regarding issues such as budgeting, tracking expenditures and making payments.
March 2009
Bentley University received a $400,000 grant from the Ernst & Young Foundation’s University Fund to launch a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming the accountancy and finance curriculum. The grant will fund new course materials, accounting resource technology, and an accounting lab assistant program for high achieving students. The award also includes a provision for matching funds to be sought from Bentley alumni at Ernst & Young, bringing the expected total value to $515,000. The University Fund is designed to further Ernst & Young LLP’s commitment to higher education by providing significant, sustainable investments to schools where the firm actively recruits.
January 2009
The Davis Educational Foundation awarded a $62,000 grant to Bentley University to support a pilot curriculum initiative entitled Complex Problems/Creative Solutions -- aimed at helping undergraduate students, as the leaders of tomorrow’s corporations, government agencies, and NGOs, work across disciplines to solve complex problems, such as global warming, affordable health care, and poverty. The project will introduce a timely complex problem into the curriculum during freshman year which students will then study, analyze and ultimately try to penetrate from multiple intellectual perspectives over the course of their first two years of undergraduate study. The Davis Educational Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’ retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
December 2008
The doctoral program at Bentley University recently received a $400,000 grant to create the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, an institute dedicated to researching social, comparative and reformative approaches to governance. The grant will fund research conducted by four Geneen Doctoral Fellows who will objectively explore issues related to corporate governance including regulation and compliance, ethics and corporate boards, and executive compensation, all of which directly impact business and the stakeholder environment. The goal of the Fellowship is to bridge the gap between academic research and practical business application.
November 2008
The National Science Foundation awarded a $20,000 grant for research on glacial geochronology to Bentley University for the project titled "Collaborative Research: Testing Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Chronologies in the Western United States with Cosmogenic-Nuclide and Radiocarbon Dating Models." Bentley Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences P. Thompson Davis is working on the project with colleagues from Oregon State University.
October 2008
The doctoral program at Bentley University received a grant from State Street Corporation to fund a four-year doctoral fellowship in corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a mission to bridge the gap between academic research and practical business application. The research focuses on CSR issues in financial markets and is designed to create a unique relationship between the participating fellow and State Street Corporation, allowing for joint problem sharing and solving, as well as access to qualitative and quantitative information in both directions.
September 2008
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Community Information and Education Division, awarded Bentley a 16th consecutive grant in the amount of $30,000 for the operation of the Bentley Consumer Action Line (BCAL), a service-learning program where students mediate consumer complaints against businesses located in Lincoln, Lexington, Waltham, Wayland, Weston, Winchester and Stoneham. BCAL students work under the guidance of Professor Steve Lichtenstein and BCAL Faculty Adviser and Coordinator John Hayward, senior lecturer of Law. Since its inception in 1992, BCAL has received grants from the Attorney General’s office that total more than $450,000.
August 2008
Bentley Received a $180,000 Grant from the U.S. State Department to host the 2008 Summer Institute for Outstanding European Students. The program allows 20 students from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and the U.K. to spend five weeks at Bentley to learn about the United States, its people and culture. A series of workshops and seminars helps the students develop leadership skills and engage in community service, as well as familiarizing them with different aspects of U.S. society, including history, politics, immigration, diversity, arts and culture.
May 2008
For the second consecutive year, Bentley researchers were awarded two grants from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of its international PwC INQuires program, established to assist faculty and PhD students seeking to increase the knowledge base that contributes to the practice of auditing and tax. Jean Bedard, Timothy B. Harbert Professor of Accountancy; Associate Professor of Accountancy Christine Earley; and PhD student Kim Westermann will conduct research entitled "Apprenticeship in Professional Services Firms: Then and Now." A second grant was awarded to Assistant Professor of Accountancy Tracy Noga for the project, "Exploring the Implications of Specific Book-Tax Difference Components as Related to a Company's Financial Health." Noga's co-investigator is Anne Jones of the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
February 2008
The State Street Foundation, Inc. awarded Bentley a $300,000 grant to continue its support of the Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium and Faculty Development Teaching Workshop through 2011. Sponsored by State Street since its inception in 2005, the symposium was established in Memory of Timothy B. Harbert '76, chairman and CEO of State Street Global Advisors and Bentley trustee and alumnus. The partnership reflects a long-time commitment to ethics for both Bentley and State Street.
January 2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Bentley a grant of approximately $130,000 for research to develop "math checker" software. Bentley Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences Nathan Carter will write and test a software program called 'Lurch,' which will be designed to teach mathematical proofs and other rule-based computational activities. He will work with co-principal investigator Kenneth Monks (University of Scranton) on the three-year project set to begin in June 2008.
September 2007
The Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has awarded Bentley two grants from two different programs. A four-year $200,000 grant from the U.S.- Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program focusing on undergraduate student exchanges has been awarded to Associate Provost of International Relations Nader Asgary, Professor Hans Thamhain and Associate Professor Joao Resende-Santos. In addition, a four-year $408,000 grant from the Atlantis Program has been awarded to Bentley, beginning September 1, 2007. Bentley will be involved in an effort to implement a four-year dual degree program by undergraduates at Bentley, Tilberg University in the Netherlands, and the University of Deusto in Spain. A second grant is being awarded to Tilburg University to support the efforts of the European schools. The project team includes Associate Provost Nader Asgary and Professor Mary Ann Robert.
July 2007
The National Science Foundation has funded M. Lynne Markus, John W. Poduska senior professor of information management, for her project entitled “Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information System Integration Through Industry-wide Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas.” This is a three-year grant of $252,208 starting July 1, 2007. Collaborating institutions are the University of Little Rock and Michigan State University.
June 2007
Bentley was the recipient of two research grants from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of its first-ever PwC INQuires program, established to assist faculty and PhD students seeking
to increase the knowledge base that contributes to the practice of auditing and tax. Jean Bedard, Timothy B. Harbert professor of accountancy, and PhD student Kimberly Westermann received
a grant for their research entitled “Remediation of Internal Control Material Weaknesses.” A separate grant was awarded to
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes professor of accountancy, William Read, professor of accountancy, and PhD student Kwadwo Asare for the project “Expanding Auditors’ Knowledge of Detailed Corporate Governance Factors Associated with Financial Fraud and Restatements.” Bentley received two of the thirteen grants awarded for 2007.
April 2007
The Internal Revenue Service awarded Mark Nixon, associate professor and chair of the Accountancy Department, an additional grant of $93,000 to continue offering a long-standing Lower Income Taypayer Clinic during calendar year 2007. This program supports Bentley students to work under faculty guidance in order to provide free information to qualified individuals who seek help in complying with IRS income reporting requirements.
September 2006
The National Science Foundation awarded Patricia Flynn, trustee professor of economics and management and David Schwarzkopf, associate professor of accountancy, a two-year award of $164,361 in September 2006. Their project is titled “Assessing State Science and Technology Reports: Lessons for Benchmarking Technology-based Economic Development.”
Funded by the Office of Health and Human Services, Children’s Hospital Boston awarded $43,336 to William Gribbons, professor of information design and corporate communication. His one-year project, beginning September 1, 2006 is titled “Health Literacy and Information Management in ADHD: Designing an Optical Record.”
December 2006
Funded by a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities, North Carolina State University awarded Professor of English, Dennis Flynn, a $40,500 subaward. He will be working on “Letters of John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography.”
January 2006
The National Science Foundation awarded Jane Fedorowicz, Rae C. Anderson Chair in Accountancy, a $458,413 grant for a three-year project which began on January 1, 2006. The project is titled "Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Effective Interorganizational Public Safety Response Infrastructures" and was awarded through the NSF Information and Intelligent Systems grant program. Christine Williams, professor of government, and M. Lynne Markus, John W. Poduska Senior Professor of Information Management, will serve as co-principal investigators along with a third co-principal investigator from Pennsylvania State University who also received a grant for the project.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded Professor of Management Joseph Weiss a $15,000 grant. The Contemplative Program Development Fellowship will fund his project, “Embedding Contemplative Practices into the Bentley Curriculum,” supporting faculty interested in incorporating innovative methods into their teaching, such as quiet meditation, mindfulness in the creative process, and centering prayer. Joe plans to run three workshops over the course of the year offering faculty opportunities to learn how to build contemplative practices into their syllabi.
August 2005
The National Endowment of Humanities has awarded a 12-month contract begining August 2005 to Joyce Malcolm, professor of
history, to serve as the Director of the Division of Research Programs. She will oversee the granting of Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards that support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contribute either to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
April 2005
The Institute for Women in Leadership awarded several grants, funded in part by the Patrina Foundation, to several Bentley faculty members. In April 2005, grants were awarded to Ruth Spack, Susan Adams for her RFP entitled “Study of Women and the CFO Role” that she is working on with Patricia Flynn; and the team of Atul Gupta, Susan Adams and Dominique Haughton for their RFP entitled, “An Analysis of Gender Differences in Executive Compensation.”
August 2004
The National Science Foundation awarded Roland Hubscher, assistant professor of Information Design and Corporate Communication, two multi-year collaborative grants in August 2004. His $1.9 million IERI (Interagency Education Research Initiative) grant is a five-year collaboration between Bentley, University of Wisconsin, University of Connecticut, and Kansas State University. His $435,000 NSDL (National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library) grant is a three-year collaboration between Bentley and the University of Wisconsin.
May 2004
The Davis Educational Foundation awarded Bentley a $204,320 three-year grant to support a new Arts and Sciences initiative: “Inspiring Intellectual and Civic Engagement: Integrating Liberal Learning Across the Business School.” For more information, click here.
