“I try to practice what I preach and be supportive of … different qualities or causes that I personally care about,” Carbone said. “And I think the best way we support those causes is by being a donor, and that can mean a dollar.”
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Learning Through Play: Bers Develops Smart Playgrounds to Enhance Computational Learning
“We’re bringing computer science education into the playground, and kids can still play outside, play with each other, and develop fully while learning concepts of computational thinking,” Bers, the Augustus Long Professor of Education at the LSEHD with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, said.
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Snell Provides In-Depth Social Work Career Guide in New Book
“All of our students come feeling very passionate about wanting to make a difference in the world, but that looks different depending on the sorts of passions of that person,” Snell said. “I am a big proponent of educating everyone about how many different things you can do with an MSW degree.”
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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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Engineering with Empathy: ‘La Siembra’ Captures Service and Connection in Ecuador
“The most special moments of connection can only happen off camera,” Rosen said. “So that was an interesting, just like personal lesson for me as a filmmaker going forward as well, that sometimes you gotta let go of trying to get everything and just as important as what you do capture is also like the actual, genuine connections you’re making with the people who are in your film.”
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Diplomacy and Heritage: Seigenthaler Pierce’s Role as Ireland’s First Honorary Consul in Tennessee
On St. Patrick’s Day 1994, Amy Seigenthaler Pierce received a phone call that changed the trajectory of her life.
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How BC Senior Ted Wind Aided the Influencer and Fostered Community at Socion
“We are going to go somewhere next,” Wind said. “I absolutely love this. There’s been nothing more fulfilling I’ve ever done in my life.”
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A Love for Community: How this BC Graduate Became a Small-Town Mayor
“I like to tell everyone, even as I’m mayor, that I generally hate politics, and I generally hate meetings, so I decided to run for mayor,” Errico said. “But I love my community, and although I might not be the person that everyone thinks has the answer, I generally thought I could do a better job and leave Telluride a better place than when I found it, and so I ran.”
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Scholarship, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Education: The Schiller Institute Opportunities for Boston College
“It’s really interesting to be able to talk to people from so many different backgrounds and understand those nuances better,” Sehdev said. “And I think a lot of Schiller’s programs tend to be like that, because there are so many people from fields like economics, political science, law, and other different fields in the humanities, and then obviously a lot of STEM.”
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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.”
