Emeritus Professor of English George Ellenbogen is doing a series of readings overseas in spring 2009, beginning at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris with the launch of Matin d'horreur, the French edition of his last book, Morning Gothic: New and Selected Poems. The multilingual reading series will cover venues in Germany, including Bayreuth, Bamberg, Dresden, Freiburg Leipzig, Siegen and Wuppertal.
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For the third consecutive year, Bentley received the 2008-2009 Prevention Excellence Award from Outside the Classroom, Inc. The award honors institutions that have achieved excellence in alcohol prevention efforts -- significantly improving the quality of student life.
For the fifth consecutive year, Bentley students are among seven finalist teams in the annual NASA Means Business (NMB) competition scheduled for spring 2009. The team consists of approximately 10 Bentley students who will present to NASA officials at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, in May.
Two of the four Bentley teams that competed on November 21 and 22 in the Eastern Regional Moot Tournament of the American Collegiate Moot Court Association (AMCA) advanced to the national tournament slated for January 2009 in Orange County, Calif. Advancing teams are Jon Krug and Joel Johnson; and Amanda Mongell and Will Tao.
Gerri Taylor M.S., A.N.P., Assistant Dean for Health and Wellness, has been elected to the position of secretary of the Board of Directors of NECHA, the New England College Health Association for 2008 – 2009. She served from 2007 – 2008 as a Member-at-Large.
A team of Bentley students was selected by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as one of five national finalists in the xTAX (xTREME Taxation) case competition. Team members Meghan Norton (Junior), Rachael Reale (Sophomore), James Angelo (Sophomore), Justin Rubbo (Senior), and Andrew Kenyon (Senior) and Coach Professor Jay Thibodeau will travel to Washington, D.C., on January 28, 2009, to compete in the finals.
A team of three Bentley graduate students placed third in the fist-ever International Case Competition on Strategic Value of IT Management, hosted by the CA World 2008 conference in Las Vegas on November 24. Bentley winners Chris Chesebro MBA '09, Henry Cipriano MSIT '09, and Kristin Wicks MBA '09 each received a $2,500 stipend. MSIT Director William Schinao served as faculty adviser.
Mary Culnan, Slade Professor of Management and IT, was appointed to the advisory board of a new Washington DC-based think tank, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), which launched on November 19, 2008. Led by privacy experts Jules Polonetsky, former AOL chief privacy officer and Christopher Wolf, chair of the Privacy and Data Security Practice Group at Proskauer Rose LLP, the Future Privacy Forum has a mission to provide thought leadership on the Internet privacy discussion, to educate consum
Fred Ledley, chair of the Natural and Applied Sciences Department, was named one of 20 members of the second cohort of BEN (BiosciEdNet) Scholars.
Roseann Cotoni, administrative assistant for the Law, Taxation, and Financial Planning (LTFP) Department, was honored as a nonimee at the Lawyers Weekly 4th Annual Unsung Heroes Awards Luncheon held at the Boston Convention Center on October 23 with more than 350 lawyers and their staff in attendance.