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As part of Bentley’s Annual Culture Fest, Qais Akbar Omar, 30, a Boston University graduate student and author of “A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story,” addressed the community about how he came to write a memoir recounting his coming of age among unimaginable violence.

“Afghanistan will see peace but it will take time,” said Robert McNulty, director of Programs at the Center for Business Ethics and founder of Applied Ethics and the Pax Populi initiative, who introduced Omar. “It is not just about ending war, it is about finding a way to create peace.”

The millennial workforce is expected to be the largest in U.S. history, yet the national rate of unemployment for graduates stands at nearly eight percent. Millennials think they’re ready for work, but many employers beg to differ.

Got an important event and nothing to wear? Try wardrobe sharing. The idea earned Bentley master’s student Amrita Aviyente a finalist spot in Boston’s Lean Startup Challenge business model competition for her Date My Wardrobe website — an online marketplace for sharing and renting high-end wardrobe items with other users.

It may have been 8 a.m., but Diversity Trainer Maura Cullen captured the attention of more than 250 students from 26 universities at this year’s Diversity Student Summit hosted by Bentley University in October. The one-day, high-energy conference is designed to mobilize students and staff to be innovative in creating and sustaining more inclusive campus communities.

I'm sure most of you must have the read the Calvin and Hobbes (CnH) collection. I'm a big fan of the comic strip series. Some think the kid in me never goes to sleep, some think i'm thinking less and imagining more, and some.... some simply ignore my addiction! ... Calvin is one of those kids who imagines of saving the world along with his faithful tiger (who by the way is a fiction in a fiction.. as in he is a figure of Calvin's imagination)...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Bentley University among theTop 30 College & University listof the largest green power users.

At Bentley University’s 20th Raytheon Lecture in Business Ethics on November 5, Georg Kell addresses the United Nations’ challenge to move from incremental change and progress on a massive scale as it continues to promote cooperation among governments, businesses and civil service organizations.

Bentley senior Evan O’Keeffe, along with other students from across the nation belonging to Beta Alpha Psi honors organization for financial information students, won first place in the 2013 Project Run With It case competition.

Speaking to a record crowd at Bentley’s Rainbow Luncheon celebrating diversity, on October 23, keynote speaker Zach Wahls tackled the question “What makes a family?” and included his own experience as the son of two lesbian mothers whose ability to marry was dependent on legislative decisions.

The Millennial Preparedness Survey questioned 3,000 respondents across nine audiences and examined skills, traits, use of technology, workplace attitudes and expectations, along with opinions of executives about millennials and vice versa, and much more. The survey identified a number of solutions to alleviate the preparedness problem and found high levels of agreement among different stakeholders on those solutions. But the study also highlights a lack of consensus in how stakeholders actually define preparedness and views vary on which skills are needed.