A Sargent College class studied homelessness in Framingham, a city west of Boston, through BU’s MetroBridge program, which pairs students with municipalities to find solutions to public problems.
For Ethan, graduating alongside his classmates is no small feat. Walking across the stage at the CAS ceremony on Saturday, then, is nothing short of miraculous.
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Wariness welcomed Gerry Fine four years ago when he was named to head Innovate@BU, an ambitious incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. “Our skeptics assumed that we would simply focus on tech start-ups emanating from engineering [students] and Questrom School of Business,” Fine recalls. Having a College of Engineering professor of the practice of mechanical engineering in the driver’s seat probably reinforced that impression.
But the feared parochialism never happened. Collaborating with Blake Sims, Innovate@BUsocial ventures program director, Innovate@BU has guided Terriers from across the University to develop their ideas, such as RefEd, an app with course instruction for refugee students lacking educational materials. The designers have hailed from schools all over the University, including Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences and Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.