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How to Hold an ‘Open House’ when Campus is Closed

May 4, 2020
Rolling Out the Virtual Welcome Mat for Admitted Students
   ​​​​An Instagram post welcomes admitted students.
The COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible for students…

In Their Own Words: Students Staying Connected at Bentley

April 30, 2020
Texts and Instagram posts. FaceTime calls and emails.From kitchen tables and family rooms across the country and the world, Bentley students sent home by the pandemic have been trying to stay in touch, isolated by the miles between them but connected by…

“Make Me a Hand Sanitizer — Neat”

April 29, 2020
What do hand sanitizer and your favorite cocktail have in common? Ethanol — a.k.a. alcohol. Since early March, countless distilleries and spirit manufacturers across the country have swapped legacy recipes and aging barrels for an FDA-approved compound and…

Police Use of Social Media During COVID-19

April 28, 2020
Five Highlights to date: In the U.S. from March 1 to March 10 most (78% of accounts) police departments were not posting about the coronavirus (only 7% of total tweets& retweets were about the virus…

Bentley Transitions to Trimester Schedule

April 28, 2020
Beginning this fall, Bentley will adopt a new trimester schedule to offer students more flexibility to personalize their education and choose the way they study and learn.  “This has been a challenging semester for universities across the country,” says…

5,000 a Day by May

April 23, 2020
Update: Since our first interview, Gravity Diagnostics has processed more than 200,000 COVID-19 samples and met its goal of averaging 5,000 per day. As of July 9, the highest single-day total was 7,000. The company built a second lab and is running six days a…

Students Connect in Online Trivia Night

April 23, 2020
(Above: Grace Lee '20 co-hosts an online Trivia Night. Photo by Kevin Maguire.) Which candy is known as “the Freshmaker”? What is the name of Star Lord’s ship in Guardians of the Galaxy? Which classic Disney Princess has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…

Dear Detroit: Stop in the Name of Love

April 22, 2020
Alex DeMuth ’15 was driving around Detroit in mid-March, when he noticed the city — his new hometown — wasn’t taking the pandemic too seriously. To be fair, the country itself was still slowly adjusting to the new normal. Michigan hadn’t reached a thousand new…

Mangroves and Manatee Poop

April 21, 2020
Want the Scoop on Manatee Poop?(Above: Scenes from Assistant Professor Betsy Stoner’s “virtual field trips”: Getting to know a mangrove tree crab; a closer look at mangrove roots; examining manatee poop; distinguishing types of mangroves by their leaf shapes…

A Message from President Davis-Blake and Provost Blancero

April 17, 2020
Dear Faculty and Staff, As the second half of this semester has unfolded, we have been deeply moved by the many personal stories we have heard of students who are experiencing hardships as we have moved rapidly to our virtual campus. The world and Bentley…