Wentworth News Archive

Chips, crackers, milk, candy, and soft drinks are not standard laboratory equipment. But for one day last month, they were exactly that. 

Wentworth Institute of Technology has been awarded $99,906.54 from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for a project that aims to turn brewers spent grain and distillers spent grain into high-quality plant-based protein, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced. 

Fall is a season of arrivals, but what our students are starting this week is a testament to what was built over the last year.

Below, the deans of Wentworth’s five schools look back on the work that set the stage.

• School of Architecture and Design

Dear Friends, 

School of Architecture & Design's 2025-2026 Academic Year Impact Report 

A Note from Ali Khabari, Dean of the Wentworth Douglas D. Schumann School of Engineering 

A Note from Michael Farmer, Dean, Wentworth School of Computing and Data Science  

Dear Friends, 

The momentum continues within the School of Management! As we are looking to launch a new academic year in September, I am excited to share the following highlights from 2025-26 with you. 

Inside the Classroom:  

When Josh Larson took over Wentworth Institute of Technology's academic technology operation last summer, he spent his first months talking to as many people as he could. He met with deans and faculty, and in nearly every conversation, the same subject came up. 

Wentworth Institute of Technology's Sweeney Programs in Construction Management is looking at how to bring 3D laser scanning into the classroom after a hands-on session with technology firm Trimble at the former headquarters of the American Geographical Society in New York City.

Wentworth Institute of Technology has been named one of America's Best Colleges by TIME. 

Two graduating students and two keynote speakers addressed the audience at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on August 13. None of them had compared notes beforehand, yet all four told the Class of 2026 the same basic idea: the polished version of your life is never the whole story.  

At first glance, the piece hanging in Wentworth Institute of Technology's Casella Gallery looks like a standard length of wood veneer. But as a visitor steps closer, the surface begins to swell and ripple. 

Wentworth Institute of Technology's Bachelor of Science in Project Management and Master of Science in Project Management have been awarded accreditation by the Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC), the accrediting body of the Project Management Institute (PMI). 

Ahead of Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Summer Commencement ceremonies Thursday, we are highlighting the students speaking, singing, and being honored, and they share what they would tell first-year students arriving in September.

Wentworth Institute of Technology will award three honorary degrees at Summer Commencement on Thursday, August 13, to three people whose careers run through the systems that keep the region moving: the airports and seaport, the electric grid, and the buildings themselves. 

Wentworth Institute of Technology closes the books on the Class of 2026 next week, with Summer Commencement returning to MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Thursday, August 13. 

Women's tennis will return to Wentworth in fall 2027 as the university's 20th varsity sport, restoring a program that first competed in the mid-1980s. 

Global cargo rarely moves on schedule. During the recent Global Freight Frenzy, an intensive hackathon hosted in the Accelerate Makerspace, Wentworth Institute of Technology students built software to keep freight moving anyway.