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Leveling Up: Esports at Bentley

June 26, 2024
The Bentley Student Gaming Organization (BSGO) was founded more than two decades ago, when four roommates borrowed computers from the former Lindsay computer lab and put GPUs (graphics processing units) into them to hold LAN (local area network) parties. Today…

(Under) Sea Change: Virtual Reality and Aquatic Exploration

June 12, 2024
Caroline Chang ’24 never imagined that her senior year at Bentley would include close-up encounters with green sea turtles, southern stingrays and other fascinating aquatic creatures that dwell in the coastal waters of the Bahamas.  But that’s exactly…

Professor Resende-Santos Receives Fulbright Award

June 3, 2024
João Resende-Santos, an associate professor of international studies, has been honored with a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, a highly competitive and prestigious academic fellowship offered through the U.S. Department of State.  As a Fulbright U.…

Bentley Students Team Up with Celtics (CLTX) Gaming to Hold Region’s First-Ever Collegiate NBA 2K24 Tournament

May 22, 2024
As part of a multiyear partnership between Bentley University and the Boston Celtics, a group of Bentley University students worked with management from CLTX Gaming — the professional esports team affiliated with the Boston Celtics — to plan the Boston region’…

Celebrating Bentley’s First Graduating Class of FirstGen Presidential Fellows

May 16, 2024
Among the members of Bentley’s Class of 2024 is an exemplary group of 14 students: The first-ever graduates of the university’s FirstGen Presidential Fellows program.Introduced in 2020, the prestigious leadership development program is designed specifically…

Bentley Alumni Conference Inspires

May 15, 2024

Catching Up with Bentley’s Class of 2024

May 14, 2024
Students from the Class of 2024 started their Bentley journey in a not-so-typical way as they transitioned to college life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, they stayed resilient and flourished on campus and beyond. They experienced many Bentley…

Wealth of Words: New FinTech Course Explores Language-Based AI

May 13, 2024
Finance may be an industry dominated by numbers but David Pope ’90 believes that words hold the key to creating high-performing portfolios.Investors are increasingly using AI tools to inform their financial decisions, the lecturer in Finance (and Bentley…

Adriana Minasian ’24 Plans an Eventful Hospitality Career

May 8, 2024
As a stadium operations associate with Kraft Sports + Entertainment (KSE), Adriana Minasian ’24 worked behind the scenes at Gillette Stadium for concerts like Beyoncé, Billy Joel, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. Knowing she needed to deliver a star performance of…

Faculty Recognized for Classroom Creativity and Commitment

May 3, 2024
When Harry C. Bentley established his eponymous School of Accounting and Finance in 1917, his impetus was innovation.  As Cliff Putney, associate professor and chair of the university’s History department, writes in his definitive account of the education…