After months of preparation, Bentley University students held the 2019 TEDx Conference on April 7, 2019. All the hard work paid off. The ‘Limitless’ conference was a huge success: students, alumni, faculty, and external speakers brought a tremendously engaging and inspiring range of talks to the audience. I can’t be more proud of the team, sponsored by many, including the Valente Center for Arts & Sciences. Advising this team was effortless: their enthusiasm and professionalism needed hardly any guidance.

The end of the semester already!

I am so pleased to start as the new Director of the Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for Arts & Sciences at Bentley University as per July 2018. The center is dedicated to integrating the arts & sciences into the educational, scholarly, and cultural life at our school. I’ve worked with the center quite a bit of the last few years. I look forward to work with the Bentley community to continue and expand the range of programs offered by the Valente Center.

As soon as the semester starts, it ends – fourteen weeks fly by. Last classes today!

With mid December, the end of the semester is upon us. Today were the last classes. Of course, final papers and exams remain, but the fun is behind us. The semester went remarkably quick. After a few weeks, we’ll do it all again!

Happy Holidays –

The summer went by quickly, but not completely without any work!

Two sections of GLS102 Comparative Politics & Government, A section of GLS101 Globalization, an the Honors Research Capstone Seminar made up my Spring 2017 semester. It went by incredibly fast.

Today twelve of my students – graduating honors students – presented their research during the annual honors conference at Bentley University. These students took my honors research capstone seminar this spring semester. Though it wasn’t always an easy process for some of the students, or for me, I am quite pleased with the results!