Bentley University News

Sandeep Purao has been on a quest this spring that took him to Copenhagen, Helsinki and Barcelona—all to learn about smart city initiatives and city-university partnerships, and to contribute to research and teaching at Bentley.

Sharron Zhu (MBA ’15) took inspiration from startups when deciding what to do with her career.

We sat down with Professor David Szymanski, PhD, as he raved about the science of sustainability. With backgrounds in geology and chemical forensics, Szymanski is a man of many disciplines. A former Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate, he enjoys involving Bentley students in research initiatives for nonpartisan energy and climate policy development. What […]

The “Suburban Opioid Study” will focus on suburban populations of opioid and heroin users including interviews with users and former users in and around Boston, New Haven, Conn., and Atlanta. With Associate Professor of Sociology Miriam Boeri as co-principal investigator along with a colleague at Southern Connecticut State University, Bentley will receive $142,025 of the $341,565 grant, the first NIH grant to a Bentley faculty member. 

By Emily Larson ’20 Dresses to Dreams is a fast-growing on-campus organization dedicated to providing free prom dresses to underprivileged teenagers in the Greater Boston area. For the second time, the Dresses to Dreams event was sponsored by the Bentley University Center for Women and Business. This year, about 700 dresses, mostly from the organization Gifts […]

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"Growing up, going to college was my number one goal," Jaclyn Leduc ’18, a marketing major, remembers. "I did everything I needed to do to make sure I would get there one day. My family was supportive, my high school was helpful and encouraging during the process, and my achievements up to that point seemed to be enough to push me to the college life I’d dreamed of for so long.

Hector Jiminez-Guerrero ’17 thrives on the challenge of adapting to new environments. While studying abroad as a Santander fellow in Barcelona, Spain — his first trip to Europe — he was able to do just that, and much more. From seeing his favorite team, Real Madrid, in action to networking with likeminded students, Hector says his time abroad was a tremendous experience that strengthened his character:

President Gloria Larson joined Bloomberg Radio’s Carol Massar and Cory Johnson, along with guest experts, to talk about how higher education is putting leadership programs in place to better prepare young women and how companies are changing their policies to advance women because they know it will benefit their bottom line.

Thanks to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, Diane Kellogg, an associate professor of management at Bentley University, will soon expand her role as a private sector consultant to a wide array of international government agencies and non-governmental organizations working to improve sanitation and health for people around the world. The challenge is stark: As Kellogg puts it, “2.4 billion people don’t have access to sanitation, so there’s a lot to do.”

Professor Donna Blancero, PhD, speaks nationally on issues regarding cultural values in the workplace, Hispanic leadership, career success, and biculturalism. She received her doctorate from Cornell University and was the founding editor for the Business Journal of Hispanic Research. A Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Blancero enjoys teaching courses about […]