Wentworth News Archive

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.

Wentworth Institute of Technology will not compete in traditional athletics programs this fall due to health and safety concerns related to COVID-19.

Wentworth President Mark A. Thompson made the announcement on July 17. The decision comes on the heels of Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) officials announcing that they would not be competing in Fall 2020. Thompson extended Wentworth’s plan to also include teams outside of the CCC, including varsity and club sports.

Wentworth, in partnership with BPS STRIVE Wentworth Training Program, has been awarded a grant of $25,000 from the Neighborhood Jobs Trust.

With the support of this grant, the program will implement new programming focused on growing the student’s computer, financial literacy and social skills. This new initiative further enriches the mission of BPS STRIVE Wentworth Training Program, which is to support workforce development with pre-vocational, vocational, and transitional services to high school students, ages 18-22 with unique physical and learning needs.

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Have you ever thought about being part of a summer camp among other campers from around the world? If so, you’ll have that chance with “From Dreams to Entrepreneurship,” an online summer program offered by Wentworth’s Department of Management.

Open to high school students, the program will explore the idea of what it means to become an entrepreneur, examining how to formulate ideas and then market them, while also teaching finance and accounting.

Six sessions will take place between August 10 and 21.

Kristin R. Tichenor, Ed.D., an experienced higher education leader with a track record for increasing diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) has been named vice president for Enrollment at Wentworth Institute of Technology, effective July 27.

Prior to coming to Wentworth, Tichenor spent the majority of her professional career as a leader in a variety of roles at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where she gained national prominence for her groundbreaking work in developing a test-optional policy more than a decade ago.