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Rachel Preloh (CAS’12) and Sharmin Akhter (CAS’12) discuss their experiences as Peer Health Exchange teachers. Photos by Kalman Zabarsky
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Joan Salge-Blake (SAR’84), a Sargent College clinical assistant professor, and BU Today intern Tom Vellner (COM’13) help Rhett the Terrier puppet guide a nervous student of Spanish to love.
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High school classmates from Boulder, Colo., Rachel Johnson (CAS'10) and Rachel Richmond (COM'10) came to Boston University as good friends. Living apart as underclassmen and reconnecting as upperclassmen, the Rachels, now best friends and roommates, [...]share an inseparable bond – and an apartment in Student Village II.
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Jenny Wildt (GRS’14) and Sara Belkin (GRS’15) introduce high schoolers to the Wakefield Summer Archaeology Institute.
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BU hosts a week long crash course in biotechnology for students and teachers for five weeks throughout the summer. Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2013/biotechnologist-for-a-week/
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Students at Haverhill High School in Massachusetts are learning new ways to curb youth violence through VIP, the Violence Intervention and Prevention program. In addition to pledging to uphold the program's mission of peace, members of VIP give [...]presentations on violence prevention and attend training workshops on conflict resolution, leadership and public speaking.
The program appears to be making a difference, according to Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Rothman has been assessing interventions such as VIP in Haverhill and nearby Methuen as part of a wider community initiative to stem the growth of youth violence.
Listen to Rothman talk about the VIP program.
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