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Faculty Honored for Innovative Teaching: VR, Cutting-Edge Tech, and Entrepreneurship

April 30, 2025
In the business world, innovation is critical to an organization’s long-term success. The same is true of the business classroom. Just as successful companies adapt to meet the needs of changing markets, effective educators adapt how and what they teach to…

Understanding the Emotional Toll of Alzheimer’s Disease

April 16, 2025
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are poised to overwhelm global health systems. More than 57 million people worldwide are currently affected by these brain disorders, a population experts anticipate will soar to 153 million by 2050. Associated health…

Communicating the Value of Undergraduate Research

April 4, 2025
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” The same question can be asked about research: If groundbreaking discoveries aren’t shared outside of academia, can they truly make an impact?  Franchesca Vilmenay ’26…

Annual Faculty Awards Celebrate Research and Teaching Excellence

March 18, 2025
Each year, Bentley University recognizes a select group of faculty members for their original and impactful research, innovative educational offerings and unwavering devotion to students’ success, both in and out of the classroom.  Here, we celebrate the…

Faculty Awarded Grants to Explore Bentley-Gallup Survey Data

February 18, 2025
We live in a time of technological change and political tension. Businesses are caught in the middle. When should they speak out? How should they adopt AI? What should they do about diversity, equity and inclusion? These are among the questions asked in the…

Bentley Announces New Presidential Faculty Fellows

October 23, 2024
Bentley continues its long-standing history of academic innovation with the debut of the Presidential Faculty Fellows program, which provides funding and institutional support for faculty-led initiatives that align with and advance the university’s Falcons…

Herd Immunity: Public Health and H5N1

October 17, 2024
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in late March that dairy cattle in three states had been sickened by H5N1 — a virulent and often deadly disease known scientifically as highly pathogenic avian influenza and colloquially as “bird flu” — alarm…

(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.…

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…