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Mike Hill ’97 To Succeed Bob DeFelice as Baseball Coach

February 9, 2022
With the start of his 54th season days away, Bentley University baseball Coach Bob DeFelice announced today that this will be his final spring leading the Falcons. Vaughn Williams, who followed DeFelice as Bentley’s director of Athletics in September 2020,…

Nearly 300 Attend MLK Jr. Celebration

February 9, 2022
Participants in this year's MLK Celebration (pictured above) included Isaura Beltre ’99, MSIAM ’02, Hassan Hassan ’22, Mukosolu Obukwelu ’22, Arafat Sheikh Rasheed ’22, Samantha Applebaum ‘22, Ysanel Luciano ’22, Eval Silvera ’99 and Farrah Jazeh MBA ’21…

No. 1 Fan

February 7, 2022
Whenever Lynn Wolf ’88, MBA ’00 has reached a crossroads in life, she’s always looked to Bentley. She earned a bachelor's in Accounting here. After receiving her CPA credential and starting a career, she got her MBA here. And, in 2018, when Bentley put out a…

It's Not All Numbers for Nick Plate ’17

January 10, 2022
Finance and Psychology may seem an unlikely major/minor combination, but for Nick Plate ’17, that mix of business and social science created the foundation for his career at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Following internships at Merrill Lynch and graduation…

CARES Act

December 23, 2021
As of November 11, 2021, Bentley University has distributed all HEERF funding. Please email CARES@bentley.edu if you have any questions. 2022 Funding The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund III (HEERF III) is authorized by the American Rescue Plan (ARP), Public Law 117-2, signed into law on March 11, 2021, providing $36 billion in support to… 2021 Funding Section 314(1)(a) of the Coronavirus, Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA), enacted on Dec. 27, 2020, allows higher education institutions to use certain funds… 2020 Funding On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to ease the financial strain across the country created by COVID-19. A portion of that economic…

Beyond Binary

December 23, 2021
Nonbinary. Genderfluid. Genderqueer.   The terms are relatively new, but the reality they describe — individuals whose gender identities are neither strictly male nor female — has been celebrated for centuries. Hindu texts dating back to 400 B.C. are…

Chasing Greatness

December 22, 2021
Chase Davies ’22 knows all about balance. The Management major is captain of the track and field team and a school record holder in three events: the 60-meter hurdles, 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon, a difficult two-day, seven-discipline…

Cryptocurrency 101: A Guide to Digital Dollars

December 17, 2021
Professor explains what you should know before jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon From mobile banking to algorithmic stock trading, it’s no secret that technology is driving innovation in the finance industry. And in the rarefied world of fintech,…

Cryptocurrency? First, they scoffed. Now they call him ‘CryptoKimm’

December 17, 2021
Alex Kim ’22, MSF ’23 always liked economics and business. But five years ago, when a friend’s parents started talking about a new type of digital currency called “Bitcoin,” his interest was piqued. So Kim dug deeper, learning everything he could by watching…

Bentley University Names Sanjay Putrevu as Dean of Business

December 6, 2021
Sanjay Putrevu, Ph.D., an experienced administrator and nationally recognized scholar in marketing, has been named the next dean of business at Bentley University. The appointment comes after an extensive, nationwide search with input from a diverse cross-…