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Kimia Pourshadi, 2020 Recipient of The David A. Fedo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts & Sciences

May 6, 2020
Dear Kimia,
    Kimia Pourshadi
The David A. Fedo Award for outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences is given to a student pursuing a liberal arts degree…

Gain the Analytics Skills You'll Need

May 6, 2020
By 2022, the World Economic Forum predicts 85 percent and 75 percent of US-based companies will have expanded their adoption of big data analytics and app-enabled markets, respectively. McKinsey and Company calls Artificial Intelligence (AI) the…

Become a Better Manager

May 6, 2020
The World Economic Forum reported that by 2022, a majority of workers will need to upgrade their skills either for a new position or for their current job; and today’s managers are no exception. Managers who can harness the power of…

Containing Coronavirus

May 5, 2020
           Professor Dhaval Dave 
With at least 24 states lifting or easing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and more expected to join them in the coming weeks, a Bentley professor’s research is the…

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…