After passing an online test registration and subsequently achieving success during an in-person group audition held in Boston, MA in spring 2009, Bentley Research Librarian Elizabeth Galoozis was chosen to appear as a contestant on the popular TV quiz show, Jeopardy. The episode was filmed in December 2009 and will air on February 17, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. on CBS affiliates across the country. To see the show aired locally in the greater Boston area, tune in to WBZ-TV, channel 4.
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Pictured above: Gregory Bucci at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. During winter break, sophomore Gregory Bucci experienced new heights as he climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro -- the highest peak in Africa and the world's tallest free-standing mountain.
Bentley Global Studies professor Asbed Kotchikian joins the Armenian Relief Society to launch the newly revamped Youth Connect Program (YCP) on Saturday, February 6, at New York University's Kimmel Center for Student Life in New York City.
The Bentley Police Department has joined forces with the Waltham Police Department for the 8th annual holiday toy drive for local area families in need. The program kicked off on November 16 and will run through December 19.
All three Bentley teams that competed in the American Collegiate Moot Court Association Eastern Regional Tournament on November 20 placed in the top 20 highest scoring teams and advanced to the second round on November 21. The Moot Court competition requires students to simulate legal argumentation before hypothetical appellate courts.
Bentley senior Amanda Healy received a $2,000 scholarship from the Boston Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Healy will graduate in December with a bachelor's degree in marketing and a minor in information design and corporate communications.
Twenty-three Bentley students took part in the Annual Minority Business Conference and Student Case Competition on October 17, with six serving on the top three winning teams. Bentley students teamed up with cohorts from UMass and Suffolk University for the competition, which was sponsored by the National Association of Black Accountants Boston Chapter and held at State Street Corporation in North Quincy, Mass. Bentley winning team members include:
A team of Bentley students took second place in the regional College Fed Challenge, a monetary policy debate competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. On November 16, Bentley competed against 20 teams from institutions including Boston College, Boston University, Bryant University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Yale University.
Robert McNulty, director of programs for the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley, discusses his recent visit to Afghanistan and shares his views on how ordinary Americans can help this nation struggling to emerge from more than three decades of war.
The University of Illinois has invited English professor Gesa Kirsch to be a visiting scholar for spring semester 2010 to teach English and writing studies for the doctoral program. At Bentley, Professor Kirsch co-founded the Women's Leadership Institute, and was a research fellow at the Center for Business Ethics. Her research and teaching interests include feminism and composition, ethics, qualitative research, women's roles in higher education, and women's autobiographies.