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Annual research reception highlights both individual and collaborative scholarly success.

Santander Universities Study Abroad Scholarship Fund makes abroad programs accessible for Bentley University students. 

How many professors could tell stories about students falling asleep during lectures? Or how smartphones have become a big classroom distraction? Students today are often (fairly or not) painted as quick to lose focus and hard to teach. Yet, with all the buzz around students losing focus, one lecture method has become insanely popular with this […]

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Bentley University President Gloria Larson joined Bloomberg Radio’s Carol Massar and Cory Johnson and guest experts to discuss the importance of teaching sustainability during The Bloomberg Advantage program.

The first U.S. Congress was filled primarily with lawyers, soldiers and farmers. Today, businessmen and women make up the majority of Congress. There are 187 representatives and 27 senators that declare business as their dominant profession. They come from industries that run the gamut, from small business owners to multi-millionaire magnates. Business is clearly and […]

During the last six years, Bentley University has shown its commitment to hiring and maintaining a diverse faculty, and has been recognized as an industry leader in retirement policies, producing some encouraging faculty statistics. 

Professor Jane Fedorowicz and colleagues analyzed hundreds of public safety networks nationwide and developed important recommendations to improve these critical systems. 

Dean of Arts and Sciences Daniel Everett’s forthcoming book, The Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious, takes aim at theories that posit an essential human nature. 

You might already know about Greek life and recreational sports teams, but did you know about these clubs? French club, debate team, intramural tennis, yearbook society. How many clubs have you joined simply to appear well rounded? But it doesn’t have to be that way. Clubs, including college clubs, aren’t about padding your resume when […]

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United Fruit Co. in Guatemala. Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Blackwater and Halliburton in Iraq. We are familiar with a few private American companies that have played at foreign policy in our recent history. One of the first and ultimately most influential, however, is also the least known.