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全球最大赌博365网站 Senior Yiannis Asikis ’25 Serves as Student Representative on MA Board of Education
As the sole student representative and a full voting member on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary & Secondary Education (BESE), 全球最大赌博365网站 senior Yiannis Asikis has an outsize impact on shaping the future of education in the Commonwealth. The mission of BESE is to strengthen Massachusetts’ public education system so that every student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education, compete in the global economy, and understand the rights and responsibilities of American citizens. Through his work on the Board, Yiannis represents the voices and opinions of all 896,103 K-12 students in public, private, and parochial schools in Massachusetts, and serves as a liaison from the Board to the State Student Advisory Council (SSAC). Yiannis earned his role on the BESE Board through his work on the SSAC, an organization comprised of student representatives chosen by their peers to help make decisions about state educational policy and student rights. Every secondary school in... More
What You Do, Not Where You Go
I was talking with a 全球最大赌博365网站 alumnus who is now well established in his career in the world of finance. We spent some time talking about hiring and the market for talent. At one point, he shared that his firm used to hire almost exclusively from the most highly selective colleges and universities in the country through on-campus recruiting programs. His firm stopped that practice recently. When I asked why, he explained that in part it was because they had been missing out on so many really strong applicants at the top of their classes at colleges outside that rarified set of schools, and that some of those applicants have turned out to be the rising stars at the firm. A look at the wide range of colleges that America’s top CEOs attended seems to confirm our alum’s observation. Of course the country’s most selective institutions have a lot to offer... More
Research Highlight: Siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 Present at Biomedical Engineering Society Conference
Last fall, siblings Mira Chu-Shore '25 and Tai Chu-Shore '26 presented at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Baltimore, MD, as part of the conference's two-hour poster session for high school students. Tai's poster, entitled "Blood Vessel Reflectance as a Tool for Assessing DBS Efficacy in Mice," focused on how blood vessels in mouse brains react to deep-brain stimulation while the mouse is still awake. Mira's poster, "A Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network to Identify Surgical Targets in Human Epilepsy," built upon her senior thesis research. Of their experience at the conference and the path that led them there, Tai shared: "From last summer until now, I have been visiting the Han Lab at BU and doing projects under two of the grad students working there. They told me about this conference and worked with me on creating the poster and practicing for the poster session. I told my sister... More
Down the Rabbit Hole
In a recent calculus class I visited, a student asked, “Can you have a function where you can take a first derivative but not a second derivative?” The question was related to the topic the class was discussing, but tangentially (excuse the pun). The teacher smiled, paused, and proceeded to write an example on the board where the proposition was true – taking time to unpack it for the whole class. The teacher had the knowledge to come up with an answer on the spot. He had the experience to know that he could get through the explanation quickly and still cover what was on tap for the day. And, most importantly, he recognized that engaging in that moment would reward that student’s curiosity and send a signal to all of the students about the value of their questions. We are incredibly fortunate to be at a school with a faculty... More
A Lifelong Network
This fall, 全球最大赌博365网站 launched a Career Mentoring Program. We reached out to our broader 全球最大赌博365网站 family to ask whether folks would be willing to mentor young alums and current students as they explore various career paths. The community answered. To date, 75 current parents, parents of graduates, and alums who are established in their careers offered guidance through informational interviews and shadow days. We have already connected dozens of them to recent graduates and current seniors, with more matches to come. We are deeply grateful to our volunteers and look to continue and expand this network in the future. While some of our students and young alums can tap into their own professional networks through family and friends, many cannot. This program seeks to provide equitable access to career advice and mentorship across a broad range of fields. It gives the mentors another way to give back to a school community... More
Reva Machanavajhula ’28 Selected For MA State Junior Golf Team
全球最大赌博365网站 freshman Reva Machanavajhula '28 was selected as one of eight girls representing Massachusetts as part of the state's inaugural junior golf team. Reva, along with her teammates, are part of the "pipeline to the US National Development Program (USNDP), a new initiative by the USGA to elevate American golf to global prominence," according to a press release issued by Mass Golf. She is the youngest member amongst both the boys' and girls' junior golf teams. Reva's many accolades in golf include winning the Junior-Mite Division in the Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship in 2020, 2022, and 2023; placing 8th (top female) in the 2023 Massachusetts Young Golfers’ Amateur Championship; qualifying for match play in 2023 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship; and representing MA in the Junior Inter-City Team Matches in 2024. Reva shares that, for her, "Golf isn't just a hobby; it's a passion that fuels my competitive spirit and teaches... More
Students Leading the Way in Admissions
We are in the final stretch of our admission season. Today is the last day of in-person tours, and applications are due on the 15th. I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and thank our student admission ambassadors – and all the students who play such a big part in telling 全球最大赌博365网站’s story to families and students who are just getting to know us. Last night, we hosted our annual Evening with the Head of School, an event for prospective families to mingle with 全球最大赌博365网站 faculty, staff, and current families. One common refrain I heard from our visitors was how amazing our students have been in the admission process – including last night. It was a cold one. Bundled up, 全球最大赌博365网站 admission ambassadors were outside greeting visitors and helping them find their way to the event. That warm greeting on a frigid night made a real impression. I heard about... More
Many Ways to Show What You Know
全球最大赌博365网站 classes wrap up today, and we start exam week on Monday. We think of exams as a chance for students to show what they know. What skills have they picked up and honed? What new knowledge have they acquired? How have they synthesized months’ worth of readings, themes, and problems? How do you do that? Our teachers have taken a flexible and creative approach to exams. Some departments give a sit-down, two-hour exam. There is a lot students can demonstrate in that format. The style is predictable and familiar. It is also good practice for what they will see in some of their BU courses and beyond. Some courses have moved to in-person, one-on-one interview formats – most commonly in history classes, but recently in geometry as well. In dialogue with students, teachers probe a range of topics spanning the semester’s content and requiring students to flex their critical thinking... More
Informing Civil Discourse
In my opening talk this fall, I expressed faith that our students have the dispositions to do what seems near impossible in our broader society: engage with one another around difficult topics with kindness and curiosity. This fall, I have seen that happening, even outside the classroom, where students are tentatively but steadily moving beyond the reticence that had set in last year. To move us further down that path, we have designed our all-school meeting program this year to help inform the conversations our students are having. Shortly before the election, BU history professor Dr. Bruce Schulman talked about several key presidential elections in the 20th century with the goal of helping us all understand how we have landed with this particular flavor of two-party election in 2024. We then welcomed Dr. Nancy Harrowitz, the Director of BU’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Students, and Dr. Mohammad Zaman, the Director... More
Research Highlight: Metch Nelson ’25 Investigates Disparities in Healthcare via Large-Scale Genetic Research Studies
For his senior thesis project, Metch Nelson '25, in collaboration with Dr. Brett Maricque at Washington University in St. Louis, is researching the disparities in healthcare in the context of large-scale genetic research programs. Specifically, Metch's research focuses on the National Institute of Health's All of Us Program, which aims to improve health care by building a diverse database that can inform thousands of studies on a variety of health conditions. Below, Metch shares more about his thesis research and why he was inspired to take on this work. Tell us about your research. My research focuses on the All of Us Research Program, a large-scale genetic initiative designed to accelerate precision medicine by collecting diverse health data from one million or more participants across the US. The program's goal is to improve healthcare outcomes by ensuring personalized treatment approaches. I am specifically examining the program's history, motivations, leadership, participant engagement, and... More