Alumni profiles

Remembering Michael Greene

Dr. Michael Greene was more than a Wentworth professor. He played a key role in building lasting relationships with neighbors in Mission Hill and beyond, helping to lay the foundation for youth-focused community programs that thrive today. “Mike Greene was an extraordinary man, an amazing teacher and an inspiration...

Making Space

John Dargin is about to undertake a cleanup that is going to be out of this world. Dargin was granted a U.S. patent for space debris removal in near-Earth orbit and presented a paper at the First International Orbital Debris conference in Texas in December. His patent calls for...

Campus Memories

"I think there is something particularly special about Wentworth students and the collaborative, experiential type of learning we are exposed to in class that transfers over to the way we coexist."Continue Reading

Reenergized: A Water Treatment Plant Goes Net-Zero

Cheri Cousens, EVN ’98, has created an initiative to turn the tide in environmental energy. The executive director of the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District (GLSD), Cousens spearheaded the Organics-to-Energy Project, which called for the circa-1977 GLSD water treatment plant to produce enough power to meet its own electrical needs...

Storytelling and Social Responsibility in Design Work

Alumnus Melvin Morales relates the importance of empathy in storytelling.Continue Reading

Alumna at Forefront of Airport Health and Wellness

Have you been to the airport lately and caught sight of a spa store adorned in orange and green? If so, Wentworth alumna Iga Wyrzykowski created that. In the past two years, Wyrzykowski helped build or remodel about 40 airport spas nationwide with XpresSpa, one of the largest spa...

Job of Dreams

Alex Spader’s office is Fenway Park in Boston, aka John Updike’s “lyric little bandbox,’’ the oldest and probably most-beloved ballfield in the country.Continue Reading

A Second Act at Wentworth

Bertrand Saint-Preux earned an associate degree from a community college in Florida, but felt like he could not get to where he wanted without a degree in computer science. He would find what he needed at Wentworth, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 2018 and now working as a...

A ‘Ziel’ for Life

Adam Ziel, BSCO ’18, spends some of his time working for Right Coast Courier. At 22, you might never guess that he has already undergone heart surgery three times in his life.Continue Reading

Together, in the Hall of Fame

By Dennis Nealon Photo by Kirsten Fraser BEFORE THEY MARRIED in October 1996, Michelle Young, IDS ’92, FMC ’94, and Andre Vega, CD ’91, AET ’93, ARC ’96, were classmates at Wentworth who lit up the basketball court as varsity stars, each landing in the university’s Athletics Hall of Fame. “I proposed to Michelle the...