Inspiration Builder
Faisal Al Shawaf, AEC ’94, BCS ’95, Hon. ’18, is an engineer who has built railways, highways, and bridges to create transportation networks across borders. But he is also a builder of personal networks meant to break barriers.Continue Reading
Continue ReadingCultural Connections
By Kristen Walsh Building global connections is no longer a choice or a perk—it’s a must. And for higher education, it provides opportunities not only for knowledge sharing—students, faculty, and alumni—but for helping to impact change on many levels. “As communication is so universally and instantaneously available, societies are seeing rapid change,” says...
Continue ReadingAmerica’s Infrastructure is Crumbling. How Wentworth Can Help.
As Boston and other cities scramble to fix roads, bridges, mass transit systems and more, places like Wentworth Institute of Technology are educating a new generation of construction industry leaders, managers, architects and engineers.Continue Reading
Continue ReadingThe Giving Kind
BY DENNIS NEALON PHOTOS BY HOPE RODRIGUEZ In a tiny New Jersey borough just west of Manhattan, Alan Fournier, BSET ’83, Hon. ’10, and his family share their property with three dogs, nine horses, two donkeys, and three pigs. Abandoned as useless or too old, the animals had nowhere to go until Fournier, his...
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