Bentley University News

By Emily Larson ’20 Convocation: A word I personally was familiar with upon starting college, and a word I am sure many other students had never heard before August 24. Well, what does it mean? As defined by Bentley University, the concept of convocation is derived from English medieval custom, when kings and their courts […]

Entrepreneurs of Bentley is an article series profiling the latest innovations and startups from the Bentley University community. Know someone who should be featured? Tell us about it at Bentley.edu/story. Entrepreneur: Grant Darst ’17 Hometown: Medway, Massachusetts Major: Managerial Economics, with an Entrepreneurship concentration Minor: Finance Company: Showroom 1 mobile, waterless car detailing service I’ve […]

In the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings of America’s Best Colleges 2017, Bentley University is ranked #3 among “Best Regional Universities - North.” 

Professor of Sociology Miriam Boeri is available to comment on the myths versus the facts of marijuana use in regards question 4. 

Bentley University is ranked  #1 in several “Best Colleges by Major/Field of Study” rankings by College Factual, an online portal designed to assist students in a selecting a college.

After noticing the need for improvements in the Boston Public School district transportation system, Bentley's User Experience Graduate Association (UXGA) and Human Factors in Information Design graduate students Rachel Graham and Nicole Gerhard decided to host a "hackathon" to help come up with innovative ways to make time spent riding the bus more engaging and productive for every Boston Public School student.

“The way that I approach my classes is experiential in nature,” says Economics Professor Aaron Jackson, winner of Bentley’s 2015 Innovation in Teaching award. “So I not only teach the theories that come out of the textbooks but how to apply them to what we see in the real world.”

As an undergraduate, Latoya Hall HFID ’16 studied Design and Visual Communication at San Francisco State. While spending part of her senior year abroad at Brunel University of West London, she learned the value of incorporating ergonomics and human factors into the design process.

Little did she know it’d be a few years before she could put those lessons into practice.

Studying abroad for Kyle White ’18 didn’t just mean an international adventure; it also meant deepening global Bentley friendships. As a Santander fellow at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Kyle was in the shoes of Austrian classmates who had studied abroad at Bentley the year before. Now, he was the one immersing himself in a foreign culture and classes — and it was an experience he says he’ll never forget.

Carolyn Magid was there at the beginning.

The associate professor of Philosophy and her colleagues were teaching the course Values and Choices, and wanting to help students better understand and empathize with people different from themselves. The faculty took the class to a local homeless shelter to serve meals, in the process creating one of the early service-learning courses in the country.