Pam and Jack Cumming, current Bentley parents, have presented a generous $1.125 million gift to Bentley University to support programs focused on developing leadership skills in young women.
Daniel Everett PhD, has been appointed Dean of Arts & Sciences at Bentley University, effective July 1, 2010.
Everett will join Bentley from Illinois State University, where he has served as Department Chair for Languages, Literatures and Cultures since 2006. In February of this year, he was also named that institution’s first University Professor.
Host of the "Dr. Oz Show" and one of America's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr. Oz delivered the keynote address to an audience of more than 1,200 at the Bentley/TIME Leadership Forum on April 22, 2010. "People don't really change what they do in life based upon what they know. They change what they do in life based on what they feel. So if you don't get people emotionally engaged in a decision - whether it's losing weight or paying attention to what's happening in Africa- they're not going to act on it."
Bentley University is one of the country's most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com). The nationally-known education services company selected Bentley for inclusion in a new resource it has created for college applicants: "The Princeton Review's Guide to 286 Green Colleges."
A business co-founded by sophomore Danny Wong is garnering national media attention. Blank Label, an online custom-design dress shirt company, has been featured by outlets such as Boston.com, Forbes, FastCompany and Bloomberg/BusinessWeek. Wong, who is majoring in Information Design and Corporate Communication, serves as the company's marketing guru. He launched the business in October 2009 with co-founder and CEO Fan Bi.
The Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business was ranked among the top 100 graduate business schools in the country and one of the top 10 in New England in the recently released U.S. News & World Report rankings of America's Best Graduate Business Schools 2011.
On April 22, 2010 Bentley University and TIME will present a thought-provoking half-day symposium featuring progressive leaders who are making a difference in healthcare, environmental change, commitment to society and acting responsibly, corporate philanthropy, and leadership development at the annual Bentley Leadership Forum.
This year's Leadership Forum, the sixth in a series of annual events designed to spotlight critical issues in business ethics, leadership and social responsibility, will explore the need for accountable leadership.
The Women's Leadership Institute at Bentley University will present its fifth annual career advancement conference for junior professional women on Friday, May 7 from 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the Executive Dining Room in the La Cava Center at Bentley University.
During the Fall 2009 semester, four Bentley University students enrolled in the Human Relations in Healthcare Organizations class led by Natural Sciences Professor Helen Meldrum, were invited to work with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to help the company assess and develop solutions for the growing problem of low health literacy, or individual's lack of ability to read, understand and use healthcare information to make decisions and follow instructions for treatment.
During the past decade, neuroscience has made enormous progress with regard to the question of how humans and non-human primates perceive the intentional dimension of actions. The Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences at Bentley University is hosting a one-day conference, Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition, on Thursday, April 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in LaCava Room 305B, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, Mass. The free workshop will bring together philosophers of mind and neuroscientists to discuss the relevance of mirror neurons in social cognition.