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Built from the Ground Up

June 21, 2021

When his Bentley lacrosse coaches told Connor Baughan ’21 they needed him to switch from offense to defense for the first time in his career, he knew he had to figure out a new way to score.  

Celebrate Juneteenth

June 17, 2021
On Wednesday, June 23, the provost's office will host a virtual Juneteenth celebration to give Bentley community members a chance to share the significance of the holiday and discuss what the day means to them. Juneteenth is celebrated each year on June…

Lacrosse Leader

June 15, 2021
One day after Eliza Bresler ’20, MBA ’21 was named a first team All-American by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, another accolade came her way - Division II Goalie of the Year. For…

All That Jazz

June 14, 2021
    The album that started it all ...
When he was 15 years old, Juan Cristo Diaz ’21 went rooting around in his father’s record collection. Intrigued by the colorful cover of “Chet Baker Sings,” Cristo Diaz decided to…

A Climate of Inclusion with  Georgianna Meléndez ’94  

June 14, 2021
Georgianna Meléndez ’94 was shocked to hear that she was named to Get Konnected!’s inaugural list of the region’s 50 Most Influential People of Color in Higher Education — sitting among talented people in Boston’s higher education scene (including her …

Golfer Hits Hole in One with Award and Dual Degrees

June 9, 2021
Ellis Yoder ’20, MSDI ’21 named Northeast-10 Male Scholar Athlete of the Year   Ellis Yoder ’21, a golfer who earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just four years, was named the 2020-21 Male Scholar …

Pouliopoulos Named Faculty Mentor of the Year

June 9, 2021
Jim “Pouli” Pouliopoulos, MBA ’95, founding director of the Professional Sales Program at Bentley and a senior lecturer in the Marketing department, is the 2021 recipient of the Dr. Dave Landers Faculty Mentor of the Year in the…

Keep Showing Up

June 7, 2021
When Jess Sumney was nominated for Bentley Adviser of the Year, she tried to think of the big things she’d done over the past year, searching for the transformative impact she felt the award required. But everything she came up just seemed small.…

Bentley Creates First NFTs

June 7, 2021
Bentley University minted its first NFTs to celebrate Coach Barbara Stevens’ induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital collectibles that are bought and sold on blockchains using cryptocurrencies.…

The Future of Finance is Female

June 4, 2021
Graduates’ success underscores importance of closing the gender gap When it comes to gender parity, finance is one of the last frontiers.  Since 3000 BC, when the Babylonians created the world’s first banking…