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Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center and the Department of Architecture came together this summer for a creative co-op entitled FutureLab. Co-op students, also known as Innovation Fellows, were charged with finding innovative solutions to the problems created by the COVID-19 crisis.

On May 6, 2020, the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, released its Final Rule under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities.  As stated by the Office for Civil Rights, the regulations aim to provide a “fair, transparent process for investigating and adjudicating sexual harassment matters.”  This includes a heightened emphasis on due process which is afforded to the parties involved in sexual misconduct incidences on campus.  One of the largest shifts in accordance with these regulati

We’re speaking with Class of 2020 students as they graduate. Our next installment is with Alexia Ralphs, a Construction Management student.

What are you most proud of during your time at WIT?

I am most proud of being the President of the Construction Management Club and being awarded the President’s Award for Construction Management.

What project or class especially stands out for you?

We’re speaking with Class of 2020 students as they graduate. Our next installment is with Paige Huntress-Parr, an Industrial Design student.

What are you most proud of during your time at WIT?

I think I am most proud of receiving the President’s Award for the Industrial Design department this year. I have enjoyed my time at Wentworth so much, and much of that is because of the education and opportunities provided for me by the Industrial Design department.

Citing the need for more community builders and changemakers, Wentworth Institute of Technology Provost Ian Lapp announced new roles and responsibilities for several people at the university.

Durga Suresh-Menon has been named the new dean of Graduate Education, while Joe Martel-Foley was named associate provost, David Simpson was named provost initiatives coordinator for inclusive excellence, and Ke’Anna Skipwith was named assistant provost for advances in learning.  

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A portable EKG machine, better designed parking garages, an automated aquaponic gardening system. A bridge collision prevention system, a grocery cart assistive arm, a house-mounted wind turbine generator, a UV light sanitizing cash register. All of these projects and more are courtesy of students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

This year, all of these senior final projects can be found online.

Wentworth Institute of Technology’s summer bridge program for Boston public school students is receiving high marks in a new, independent report from the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. The program, called RAMP, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and experiencing record enrollment this summer, according to Wentworth officials.  

Professor Gloria Monaghan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has authored her fourth book of poetry, Hydrangea. The collection was published through Kelsay Books.

Set in Michigan and along the shoreline of Massachusetts, Hydrangea examines the natural world and finds divinity in the “color of green on the underside of a leaf/when you think all hope is lost/there it is/the sun shining through/even brighter than before.” Monaghan wrote the poems in the wake of a health scare, a divorce, and her daughters growing and leaving her home.

Kathleen Hamill says Wentworth has a solid plan for reentering campus this fall, one that should work well barring major interference from the Covid-19 virus itself and providing students, faculty and staff stay fiercely united against the pandemic. The key to success, she says, will be diligence—closely following the reentry protocols and plans that are in place.

“There are a lot of unpredictable factors out there,” she said. “But the Wentworth model provides a blueprint for how to go on the offensive against the pandemic.”

Beginning this fall, Wentworth Institute of Technology will be offering four new scholarships for graduate-level education.

Created to acknowledge the achievements of Wentworth alumni inside and outside of the classroom, and to foster the university’s commitment to inclusive excellence, the scholarships will cover up to 20 percent of the cost of tuition and fees for all qualifying graduate degrees and graduate certificates.

Wentworth's Project Management Seminar Class, led by students Paige Taylor and Jade Iadarola, raised over $3,000 for the Wentworth Food Pantry. The fundraising effort came about after Professor Cindy Stevens initiated a partnership with Karibe Ibeh, director of food and nutrition services for YMCA of Greater Boston.

With a global pandemic upending the way we conduct everyday business, Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Computer Information Systems students are looking into ways to help those most affected right now, particularly the small business owner.

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, Physical Plant employees at Wentworth Institute of Technology have been working hard on campus, reconfiguring spaces, establishing social distancing parameters and making upgrades to several areas.

One measure has included signage, which has been implemented around campus to spell out safety guidelines for those returning to campus for the fall semester. As part of the “Protect Our Spot” campaign, the signs note the following:

On July 29, the Wentworth Engineering Honors Society inducted 65 students into its inaugural cohort.

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If Allison K. Lange appears a bit busier than usual these days it’s because the country is on the brink of celebrating a major milestone—the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18 and its certification a week later on August 26.

Nasser Yari stood in his home office, virtually presenting a variety of images that showcase the use of mass timber—large solid wood panels for wall, floor and roof construction. One such image was of the Richmond Olympic Oval in British Columbia, an indoor arena with an impressive six-acre, all-timber roof (the largest of its kind in the world), its interior more resembling a cathedral than a sports stadium.

“Mass timber is considered the new steel,” said Yari, an assistant professor in Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Department of Civil Engineering and Technology.

We’re speaking with Class of 2020 students as they prepare to graduate. Our next installment is with Chris Cassidy, an Electrical Engineering student and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

What are you most proud of during your time at WIT? 

I'm most proud of what I've achieved, from friends made, to grades and my co-op experiences [with iRobot and Analog Devices]. It's all blurred together over the last four years to feel like a single, monumental achievement.

The National Academy of Construction announced that academic scholarships have been awarded to three students in the United States, including Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Julia Gravano.

This marks the first time NAC has awarded scholarships, providing two $5,000 scholarships and one $2,000 scholarship for the 2020 academic year.

Recent high school graduates in Boston are faced with a sobering reality this summer: the COVID-19 pandemic has suspended many educational programs and the prospect of finding a paying seasonal job is slim at best.

But where other opportunities have dried up, Wentworth Institute of Technology’s RAMP program is finding record enrollment, ready to educate and provide a stipend to more than 60 City of Boston residents who have committed to Wentworth in the fall, an increase after a record 46 RAMP participants last year.