Wentworth News

Author and Vietnam War veteran Joseph Allen Freeborn spoke to Wentworth students and others in Watson Auditorium on Feb. 25, sharing awe-inspiring tales from his new book, Letters from Vietnam.

Freeborn served in Vietnam from August 3, 1971 through March 16, 1972, stationed in Da Nang where the U.S. Air Force housed a major air base. He told Wentworth students about arriving in a foreign land, his ruck sack that weighed nearly 86 pounds, and about how he would have to build his bedding most nights. Other nights, he had nothing more than a poncho on the ground.

The Braintree-based Flatley Foundation is giving $1.75 million to Wentworth to create an endowed scholarship fund for local students who want to major in life sciences at the university.

Wentworth’s Architecture programs fared well on a new list of best architecture schools compiled by rankings group GradReports:

Simmons University and Wentworth Institute of Technology will mark the 100^th anniversary of women’s suffrage with a “Transcription Party: Making Women’s Historical Papers Accessible” event on Tuesday, February 25.

The year 2020 marks the 100^th anniversary of the 19^th Amendment, which prohibited voter discrimination based on sex.

Fourth-year architecture students stepped outside the comfort of their traditional studio setting to examine problems that engage wide-ranging communities in Boston and Venezuela. The projects—each linked to one of three academic concentration areas—explored problems faced by urban communities, with the intent to find design solutions in support of equity and civic life.

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Emily Levy, CEO and co-founder of wellness wear company Mighty Well, will be the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Women@Wentworth event on March 27.

Levy is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur and patient advocate. Her company creates innovative medical wearables and focuses on apparel inclusivity for those living with chronic illness and disability. She was an executive in residence in Wentworth’s Accelerate program.

Concrete makes up many things that we use in our day-to-day lives. Streets, sidewalks, buildings… and canoes?

Held every April, the concrete canoe competition pits schools against each other in a boat race, but as the name denotes, this is not your average race. Students in the Wentworth chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers calculate the proper materials and numbers that they will need to create a mold before pouring the canoe.

Allison Lange, assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, presented “Images and the Fight for Women’s Voting Rights in the United States” to students at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. on Jan. 23.

The visit kicked off Muhlenberg’s history lecture series, “A Century of Struggle: Women’s Rights Before and After Suffrage.”

On Wednesday, January 22, the Wentworth Construction Management Club (CM Club) held a networking event geared towards women who are currently pursuing a degree related to the built environment and/or Construction Management. The event was organized in part by Shawmut Design and Construction alongside the WIT CM Club student board.

The event invited women professionals onto campus to engage with current students and provide insight into the available career paths for CM professionals and day-to-day activities of various positions.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh visited Wentworth’s campus Thursday morning to meet with university officials—including President Mark A. Thompson—and students taking part in the Supported Training to Reach Independence through Vocational Experiences (STRIVE) program.

Wentworth announced the creation of a new Fire Protection Technology professional certificate program to meet the increasing demand for qualified fire protection specialists.

Innovative architectural designs, complex engineering systems and modern construction methods now require sophisticated knowledge of building operations and state-of-the-art technology. Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals are especially being called upon to know more about building systems and infrastructure.

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Wentworth President Mark A. Thompson and others will tour the STRIVE Wentworth recycling base in the Annex Building on campus, 550 Parker Street, Boston; then the facilities maintenance operation at 610 Huntington Ave. The visit is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 16.

STRIVE stands for Supported Training to Reach Independence through Vocational Experiences.

For 2020, Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Design Program has been ranked #2 out of 10 colleges in Massachusetts by College Factual, placing the design program at the university in the top 15% of all like programs in the state. Wentworth has attained this #2 ranking two years in a row.

Historians have long known that Dorchester natives fought for the Union during the American Civil War. But less was known about where and when exactly they fought until a group of Wentworth students led by Associate Professor Ella Howard began their research.

Howard describes the project with the Dorchester Reporter.

Before or after every meeting with software engineers and managers at AVTECH, Jade Aboud Siriani would conduct further research to help himself catch up with the discussion.

“I have to understand all aspects of the communication, the coding and all the details,” he says. “I know the company’s number-one product relies on my work.”

Siriani is a junior in the Computer Engineering program. AVTECH produces environment monitors protecting areas like computer rooms, data centers and warehouses from the fluctuation of temperature and humidity.

During the National Conference on Student Leadership in Orlando this November, Wentworth senior Jasmine Andrade spoke of her experience leading multiple student organizations as a voice of underrepresented students.

An Interdisciplinary Engineering student, Andrade is the co-founder of Wentworth’s Cape Verdean Student Association. She was formerly the vice president of the Multicultural Student Association and a collegiate member of the National Society of Black Engineers.

Allison Lange, a Wentworth Institute of Technology assistant professor and leading expert on the suffrage movement and 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, appears in a new PBS film chronicling Wyoming’s place as the first state to provide women access to the vote.

Once again, Boston officials are turning to Wentworth Institute of Technology’s students and faculty to reimagine the use of City property—this time underused and inhospitable areas of the John D. O’Bryant School complex in Roxbury.