“Science is a creative endeavor—people miss that,” said Kensinger. “You are discovering things that nobody knows yet. It’s a tremendous opportunity for individuality.”
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Reimagining Romance: Brainerd Seeks To Revive Meaningful Dating Through Ophelia
With the creation of Ophelia, a dating platform that focuses on in-person experiences, Brainerd wants to revolutionize this messy online dating world, bringing the URL to IRL.
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Don’t Want To Walk to the Dining Hall? GrubSwap Will Do It For You.
“The biggest issue that we’re solving is on-campus delivery sucks,” Harrington said. “It’s time-consuming, it’s expensive, and it’s not optimized for college campuses. We’re solving the dining dollars crisis as well. We’re able to give students cash back for dining dollars that are soon to expire.”
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Need an In-Depth Review on a BC Professor? There’s a Website for That.
“We basically wanted to make Rate My Professor completely obsolete,” Pucher said. “We wanted to beat Rate My Professor.”
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Two BC Sophomores Aim to Transform Education With MLV Ignite
“We saw a problem in schools,” Kim said. “You don’t really use what you learn in high school for a job, maybe in college. So what we wanted to do was offer things like entrepreneurship education and financial literacy, things that I personally think really matter in helping students understand what they really want to do with their lives.”
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Two BC Sophomores Aim to Transform Education With MLV Ignite
“We saw a problem in schools,” Kim said. “You don’t really use what you learn in high school for a job, maybe in college. So what we wanted to do was offer things like entrepreneurship education and financial literacy, things that I personally think really matter in helping students understand what they really want to do with their lives.”
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Beyond Borders: Van de Water Researches Medicine in Low-Resource Settings
“In South Africa, the inequities on race and class were just very obvious because of the legacy of apartheid, which made me very interested in doing work there,” Van de Water said. “There was a brutal HIV epidemic and devastation on the whole healthcare system.”
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Through Global Eats, Marilynn Johnson Documents Boston’s Historical Immigrant-Owned Restaurants
“Learning about food within immigrant communities is not just learning about recipes—it’s learning about the entire generational history,” McCoy said. “To care about someone’s history is to care about the person—it’s just simply to care. The more caring that we can all do, whatever avenue that’s coming from, the better off we’ll all be.”
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Plater Works to Save the Snail Darter Species From Extinction
“The thing that really grabbed me, of course, was this little Tennessee River and this little fish,” Plater said. “The first law of ecology is that everything’s connected to everything else, and so that little fish was connected to the corrupt economics. It was connected to the corrupt politics.”
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“The Priest of Sin”: McGowan Studies Implications of Gambling
“Jesuit spirituality says, in the first week of the exercises, how loved you are by God,” McGowan said. “Lots of times we don’t use the gifts of God very well. You have something better that you should and could be doing. You can always be better than an addicted you.”
