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The Magic Numbers
#12 // Wentworth’s ranking in “Regional Colleges—North” in U.S. News & World Report’s “2013 Best Colleges” guide, up from number 17 last year 6 // Consecutive years that the Princeton Review has...
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Waste Not
A recent national study by environmental and public health nonprofit the Natural Resources Defense Council showed that nearly 40 percent of the food available to Americans goes uneaten. That’s about...
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THE (BEAUT1FUL) NUMB3RS GAME
Photo by Jarrod McCabe SOCCER IS FACING THIS PROBLEM that baseball didn’t have: baseball statistics are wildly available,” says Devin Pleuler, BCOS ’11, a former Leopard goalkeeper and data scientist...
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Start Me Up
IT’S NEARING 5:00 P.M. ON JULY 28, and a steady stream of students begins to file into the Evans Way /Tudbury Auditorium. They settle into groups, huddled around laptops, delivering presentations to...
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Profiles in Giving: Edward J. O’Leary
More than 100 years after Wentworth’s founding, Edward J. O’Leary, PE, AC ’48, Hon. ’06, still marvels at the foresight of its founders. “That great piece of land is now in the middle of everything...
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Salt and Profit
Jordan Castro’s new business rose from a simple salt cellar—a gray concrete cylinder that stands just two-and-a-half inches tall. And, as Castro, ABC ’10, BPM ’13, admits, building a business out of a...
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The Road Home
On June 13, Kera Murphy, BSM ’09, dunked the rear wheel of her bicycle in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Providence, RI, and headed west on a 70-day, 4,000-mile trek to the shores of the Pacific....
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In Memoriam: Kenneth Bacheller
Kenneth Bacheller, ’36, was an airplane engineer before and throughout World War II, while living on both the East and West Coasts. But where he will be most remembered is in sunny south Florida for a...
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Safety First
piece / When motorcycles dump (biker speak for “fall over”) or crash, riders can be pinned under a still-spinning wheel without a way to shut off the bike’s engine solution / Build a depressible kill...
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Coupling
It seemed like the easiest way to find a partner. Join a Catholic singles dating website. Go on dates. Begin a relationship. What Audrey (Emerson) Leitao, BINT ’10, wasn’t expecting was to find her...
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5 Questions for Russ Pinizzotto
Russ Pinizzotto arrived at Wentworth in 2009 with big ideas and energy to match. He recently sat down with WIT to reflect on five years of change in academics at the Institute. 1. In an article that...
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Making the Grade Abroad
FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, Wentworth architecture students have traded Boston for Berlin for a semester. Each year, nearly 100 Wentworth students travel to the German capital for a full semester of design...
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High-Tech Highway
UNTIL RECENTLY, walking through the ground-floor corridor of Wentworth Hall was almost like taking a step back in time. Pedestrians were greeted by a painted concrete floor, high-school style lockers,...
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Bottle Bill
When you pop the top and take a sip of your favorite soft drink, how much time do you spend thinking about the bottle you’re holding? Do you consider the weight of the container? The way it feels in...
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Profiles in Giving: Sam Altschuler, Hon. ’08
About two years ago, when Sam Altschuler, Hon. ’08, began considering a gift to assist Wentworth’s Department of Computer Science and Networking, he made it clear that he wanted to think big. Already a...
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We Remember: Ted Hood, BC ’50
Frederick Emmart “Ted” Hood, BC ’50, renowned sailmaker and founder of Hood Sail, died on June 28, 2013. He was 86. Hood was known as unique in seafaring circles for his ability to excel not only as a...
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Sitting Pretty
When Victor Zhu ’15 started to design a studio stool for an industrial design assignment last fall, inspiration came from an unlikely source. “In terms of form and color, I chose industrial assembly...
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Boston as a Lab
ON A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LAST FALL, a group of first-year architecture students stood in the middle of Summer Street in Downtown Crossing, pencils and paper in hand, sketching their surroundings while...
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Honor Roll
FACULTY Associate Professor of Architecture Robert Cowherd has been named to the board of directors for the Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC). The group was created after a...
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Boston as a Lab
ON A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LAST FALL, a group of first-year architecture students stood in the middle of Summer Street in Downtown Crossing, pencils and paper in hand, sketching their surroundings while...
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