Professor of Accountancy Jay Thibodeau absolutely loves what he does, whether it’s teaching, researching, consulting, or advising, and it shows. He’s the only Bentley educator to win faculty-wide awards for excellence in research, teaching and service.

Launched last fall, the Internet Payment Platform (IPP) promises to be a groundbreaking Web-based tool that makes it much easier for federal agencies and their vendors to conduct business. While streamlining the order-to-payment cycle is an innovative effort for the U.S. Treasury, which owns the platform, what wasn’t so groundbreaking was the longstanding partnership that produced this evolving electronic marketplace.

When one thinks of diners, two things come to mind: good food and good conversation. One usually surpasses the other, and rarely, if ever, do both reach the pinnacle of perfection.

Falmouth artist combines photography and digital-editing talents to create magnificent images of Cape Cod.

Black and blue or gold and white? In late February, this was the burning question on the minds of millions as an innocent Tumblr post about a dress color went viral on social media. Fortunately, Joe Rizzo, M.D., of Mass. Eye and Ear was able to explain the science behind #TheDress to WBZ-TV and National Geographic.

A century ago, islanders could travel from the harbor to Siasconset via the dearly departed Nantucket Railroad, a privately funded enterprise that operated—in fits and starts, but mostly fits—from 1881-1918. Although it ran in the red for most of its checkered history, the Nantucket Railroad had a rich history of derailments, de-coupled cars, engine failure, shifting tracks, crashes, and other calamities.

In one of my more enjoyable assignments while at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, I live-tweeted the New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) performance at the 2015 Sense-Ation Gala, the hospital's annual fundraiser.

Reality bites. It also hits hard, passes with precision, runs with abandon and scores at will. Reality is the Denver Broncos, who systematically dismantled the New England Patriots, 34-8, in a keenly anticipated AFC matchup on Sunday afternoon at Foxboro Stadium. It was the Patriots’ worst beating since the visiting Broncos administered a nationally televised 37-3 whipping on TNT last October.

Check out a promotional brochure that features Bentley University's many technology-learning labs, which offer students the hands-on experience that they need to hit the ground running after graduation.

Soon after hiring Bill Parcells, the New England Patriots discovered that he's one Bill worth paying.

In a roof garden interview with CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman earlier this summer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren touched upon a number of topics, including fiscal austerity in the U.S., unemployment, regulatory reform and core inflation, among other issues.

Heritage Museums & Gardens unveils fabulous movie costume exhibit.

Patriots Coach Bill Parcells realizes he has to create more options to accommodate third-year gunslinger Drew Bledsoe's burgeoning talents, so the former grind-it-out guru has adopted a radically different offensive philosophy than he employed during his final years with the Giants.

MassDOT Highway Division District 5, with aid from other districts and state agencies, helped clear roads, power lines after historic tornado trifecta sliced through several mid-cape towns.

In response to the subprime mortgage crisis and rising foreclosures – and encouraged by Boston Fed leadership – Citizens Bank, Sovereign Bank, TD Banknorth, Webster Bank and Bank of America launched the Mortgage Relief Fund, a $125-million initiative that aims to help some New England homeowners refinance into more affordable mortgages, enabling many to avoid delinquency and foreclosure.

The Super Bowl is no exception to the grand American tradition of excess. In fact, the National Football League’s championship game typifies it. So it should come as no surprise that the NFL team that scored most excessively all season long, the Green Bay Packers, continued that timeworn tradition of American gluttony with a 35-21 Super Bowl XXXI victory over the AFC Champion New England Patriots in the Louisiana Superdome.

Thanks to For Sentimental Reasons, the big band sound of the World War II era is alive and swinging throughout New England. Fronted by Dorchester native and Quincy resident Sean Roper, For Sentimental Reasons is a performance group that re-creates a "live" USO-style radio broadcast, circa 1944, via Armed Services Radio.

Although it’s commonly accepted wisdom that nobody – or nothing – is perfect, this logic no longer applies to BERG’s CLIA Laboratory, which earned a perfect rating from a government regulator on Thursday, Aug. 17.

Thanks to recently enacted tax breaks for film companies, movie shoots are an increasingly common sight in and around the Hub. So, early on the overcast morning of October 16, a film crew was setting up shop on Dewey Square, and rumor quickly spread that Mel Gibson would be shooting a scene or two.

Strolling across the Bryant College campus in baggy shorts, a polo shirt and a baseball cap, Matt Bahr could almost pass for someone half his age. Father Time has been kind to the Patriots placekicker, whose impish face belies his 39 years, but nowhere is Father Time's blessing more evident than in Bahr's right leg, which has earned him a more-than-respectable living the past 16 years.