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Bentley Celebrates Philanthropic Community at Falcon Weekend 2025

September 29, 2025
On the Friday evening of Falcon Weekend 2025, Bentley celebrated its philanthropic community with a trio of events — a Presidential Reception, the Adamian Groundbreaking Ceremony and the Great Benefactors Dinner — all of which underscored the tremendous impact…

Bentley Receives $1 Million Gift to Establish the Ralph Welensky Chair in Accounting

September 18, 2025
Bentley University established the Ralph Welensky Chair in Accounting with a $1 million endowed gift from the Trustees of the Estate of Thomas F. Goldman. Ralph Welensky graduated from Bentley in 1947 and was a mentor to his nephew, Thomas Goldman.“When we…

Fueling the Future: Professor Emeritus Empowers the Next Generation

September 1, 2025
When Thom Davis, PhD, professor emeritus, retired from Bentley in 2021, his impact didn’t end there. If fact, it was just beginning — the tenured professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (NAS) set up the Eric A. Oches and David Szymanski Earth, Environment…

Cradling the Community

April 29, 2024

Great Expectations

April 26, 2024

The Somers Garage Is Open

April 24, 2024
Members of the Bentley community gathered on Wednesday, April 10, to celebrate the opening of the Somers Garage — a place to exchange ideas, cultivate start-ups and foster collaboration as part of the Entrepreneurship Hub (E-Hub), generously supported by Steve…

The Long Game

March 26, 2024

Falcons Forward — Bentley’s Biggest Giving Day — Breaks Records

March 22, 2024
During Falcons Forward 2024, a record-breaking $681,867 was raised for Bentley, with donors choosing to give to the areas of the university that mean the most to them. See all results.

A Formula for Entrepreneurship

October 26, 2023
For Steve ’08 and Samantha Somers, giving back to Bentley is an investment. Steve thinks of their $1 million donation to Bentley’s Entrepreneurship Hub (E-Hub) as the beginning of a self-sustaining ecosystem: giving students the support they need to build…

Securing Success

September 1, 2023
A Greek immigrant, George Manioudakis’s American dream was never for his son Angelo G. Manioudakis ’88 to be a partner at a big firm or become a heart surgeon, but to be the first in their family to get a college education. Angelo did that — and more — and is…