Wentworth News Archive

In honor of Women's History Month, the Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons has created a collection of resources to celebrate female-identifying voices, creators, and experiences both internationally and right here at Wentworth.

This collection includes books, eBooks, films, podcasts, organizations for collaboration and participation, and resources for activism.

Jadon Watson, a sophomore studying Cybersecurity at Wentworth Institute of Technology, is the subject of a Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts feature story relating his plans to defend the United States against criminal computer system attacks. 

Wentworth Institute of Technology is proud to celebrate Black History Month. Join us as we recognize and honor the achievements that Black Americans have made on our forward journey of progress and also celebrate the beautiful members of our community with African heritage. 

Click the links below if you would like to see our national spotlights for the month or learn more about how Wentworth is honoring Black History.

National Spotlights

Robotics aficionado, educator, author and mom, and CEO and co-founder of SmartGurlz Sharmi Albrechtsen has been named Wentworth Institute of Technology’s 2022 Woman of the Year. 

A group of Industrial Design students were asked to reimagine city transportation in a clean, cost-effective, and safe way. Their answer? A cost-effective, electric scooter that could be configured by customers.  

Spatial visualization is a critical component of the construction industry. One example is looking at paper plans and visualizing them in 3D. In addition to allowing stakeholders to understand design details, spatial visualization also enables them to have a better sense of where a construction project stands at any stage.  

In Major League Baseball, the magic number to make the playoffs is the number of wins needed by a team combined with losses required by its closest competitor. Now a team of Wentworth professors and students is wondering if the magic number for the global pandemic is 55—as in 55% indoor relative humidity.  

Wentworth Institute of Technology has long proven to be a school of access and opportunity. Now, the university is adding to that reputation by joining Tri Alpha, a national honor society for first-generation students. 

A Wentworth Institute of Technology graduate course focusing on mass timber has been named one of the best in North America by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Software Lumber Board. 

Mechanical Engineering student Katerina Koukounaras ’22 completed a most interesting co-op this past semester as she not only had a chance to study aircrafts and the realm of electric flight, she had a chance to do it all in Germany. 

Danica Buckley, M.A., M.M., adjunct faculty of English in the School of Sciences and Humanities, is a shining example of the different ways that Wentworth Institute of Technology faculty contribute to the broader community. 

What giving to Wentworth means to some of our donors, in their own words. 

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Emojis are everywhere. You see them on social media platforms, in text messages and blogs, and they even exist in court cases.

Salem Othman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Networking in the School of Computing and Data Science, not only recognized the appeal of emojis on his students, but also the overall changing impact of emojis on how we communicate. In September 2019, he decided to dive deeper into this topic and investigate this new form of human communication through scientific research in the form of Emojiset Mining.  

As the Fall 2021 semester kicked off, new and familiar faces converged on campus, and students were able to return to a full slate of on-campus classes and amenities.

The abundance of activity on campus and in the classroom is no accident—it is thanks to the steadfast support of people like you. Because of your generosity, we have been able to keep Wentworth running through the pandemic and expand offerings to students as it became safer to do so.

One of the things I enjoy most about my work is that it gives me the opportunity to meet people with the same interests and passions that I have: higher education, STEM and design education, bridging the gap between potential and educational opportunity, and working together to make the world a better place for all. Care for and support of our students has been a consistent theme as I have met with so many of you.

In last year's President's Report, Wentworth’s Board Chair Greg Janey and I were able to highlight how Wentworth had responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how we were positioned for the uncertainty of the year ahead. Now, one year later, I can share how much we accomplished while recognizing some of the challenges we endured.

Rick Grundy’s story is one that epitomizes Wentworth career success. Grundy chose AVTECH—an international software and hardware developer and manufacturing company head-quartered in New England—for an optional co-op during his sophomore year of college. Today, he is the company’s president. Grundy, Computer Science ’03, has long served as a member of the Wentworth Alumni Association, and he currently chairs the University Advisers, a group dedicated to the welfare of Wentworth and its students. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees.

Teradyne has joined Wentworth in its efforts to increase the number of women and other underrepresented groups of students in STEM.

The company dramatically increased its commitment to students in 2021 through a multipronged gift to the following:

During this past academic year, the Richard H. Lufkin Memorial Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee (Lufkin Memorial Fund) awarded Wentworth two grants that supported students majoring in Mechanical Engineering. These grants provide students who are typically under-represented in the major with financial assistance that will directly help them pursue their undergraduate studies and graduate from Wentworth with an engineering degree.

The Fall 2021 semester ushered in new tools for students to find what they need and attain a better overall experience at Wentworth.