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Cultivating Potential

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article   The cannabis industry ended 2021 with national sales of $25 billion, which experts predict will double by 2026. It employs nearly half a million people in medical and recreational markets across 37 states. It has seen jobs…

Built On Trust

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article   In 2015, Enis Karavil ’06 was chasing his dream, working and studying interior architecture in London and collecting kudos for redesigning his own home there.   But in their regular phone calls, Amir Karavil ’10…

Smart Moves in Real Estate

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article   As the real estate market starts to settle down, what will it mean for you as a buyer, seller, renter or investor? We asked Bentley alumni in the field to weigh in. 

Friendships Then & Now

April 26, 2023
Alumni share photos, stories and gratitude for friendships that started in dorms and elsewhere at Bentley. Send yours for a future issue. 1974 As students, from left: Barry Arntz ’74, MBA ’84; Paul Gagnon ’75; Paul “Tango” Tangusso ’75; Kenneth Sawicki ’74…

Foos for Thought

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article   Mythical lion-like creatures revered for their strength and loyalty, foo (or fu) dogs have been celebrated among Asian cultures for nearly 2,000 years. Jonathan Yu ’18, MSMA ’19 is turning these ancient symbols to a fresh new…

Bringing the Heat

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article One of the first things John Brown ’88 did after moving to Chelsea, Mass., was put in a garden full of peppers. It included the legendarily hot ghost pepper variety.   His kitchen became a lab for perfecting a recipe that…

Fundamental Figures

April 26, 2023
Listen to This Article   More than 80 years after Bentley’s doors opened to women, four of ‘the firsts’ tell their tales    Much of history is a book filled with the stories of men, written by men — and the Bentley of 1917 was no… In 1949, she took that Bentley wager herself. From their home above the family market, the sisters watched the Tobin Bridge rise and bemoaned the traffic it caused. “I was always late to class!” Eunice laughs. She, like Ros, loved math. In fact, a high school… The Stand-Up Standout Pat Flynn didn’t resign from her first full-time job because of the women’s liberation movement. She left the almost entirely male ranks at Paine Webber in 1972 because of something she knew…

NCAA President and Former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Tripadvisor Co-Founder and Former CEO Stephen Kaufer to Deliver Commencement Addresses at Bentley University

April 18, 2023
President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will deliver the keynote address at Bentley University's 104th undergraduate commencement ceremony in May. Baker’s commencement address – his first…

Bentley Establishes Chapter of National First-Gen Honor Society

April 18, 2023
On Tuesday, April 4, Bentley held its first-ever induction ceremony for Alpha Alpha Alpha (Tri-Alpha), a national honor society recognizing academic excellence among first-generation college students. The university welcomed 53 students and 27 faculty and…

Running and Redlining

April 14, 2023
For most of her life, Erin Flynn believed that running was an inherently inclusive sport. A standout cross-country runner — first at her high school in Milton, Massachusetts, where she helped lead her teammates to a state championship, and later at…