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Valentine’s Day: the holiday single people love to hate

Daniela Cejudo Curiel February 11, 2025
Learning to be alone isn’t easy, and it feels even harder during a holiday dedicated to love. But love isn’t only romantic — it deserves to be celebrated in all its forms. 
BU Spark! in the Center for Computing and Data Sciences. CEO of Black Tech Pipeline Pariss Chandler emphasized the value of Black representation in the tech industry during Spark!’s DEI in Tech Speaker Series on March 22. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

How the CEO of Black Tech Pipeline fosters inclusivity in tech

Akshun Gogia March 29, 2024
At a talk held on March 22 as part of Spark!’s DEI in Tech Speaker Series, Chandler discussed how she drew upon these experiences as her career progressed.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Balancing enthusiasm with hate in inter-regional esports beef

Nick Speranza December 9, 2021
Inflammatory trash-talk in international video game chatrooms can create friendly competition — as well as a source of hate speech.
Antuan Castro Del Rio at the Colombians Demand Justice protest

Boston-area demonstrators rally against economic inequality, brutality against protestors in Colombia

Anna Vidergar May 25, 2021
Demonstrators marched through Boston in opposition to violence against protesters in Colombia.
mollusk marine science lab

Plans for Marine Semester field research in Belize remain uncertain

Emily Stevenson April 27, 2021
The Marine Semester did not offer a Belize component last year, but may do so this Fall.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Vaccine passports are reasonable and necessary, but come with risks of disparity

Editors April 6, 2021
Vaccine passports can be inequitable, but are ultimately inevitable for safe travels and normalcy.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Period pieces often glaze over a dark history

Max Ferrandino February 17, 2021
These period pieces should be taken with a grain of salt. While the clothes and houses may look pretty, unethically using and enslaving people certainly is not.
Boston University alum Danny Breegi speaks about Breegi Scientific, Inc., a startup he co-founded with his father Wisam in 2013 to design low-cost incubators, at the BUild Lab Monday. DANIEL KOOL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Father-son duo are the entrepreneurs behind Breegi Scientific

Madeline Humphrey February 27, 2020
Dr. Wisam Breegi and his son Danny Breegi created their startup company called “Breegi Scientific” in order to make affordable incubators available worldwide, in response to the infant mortality that comes with lack of access to incubators — and a personal tie.
The U.S. has struggled in the World Baseball Classic,, and its reflected in the ratings. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Why We Play: What can make a sport truly worldwide?

Simon Kienitz Kincade September 26, 2016

This past Thursday, the USA men’s hockey team lost to the the Czech Republic 4-3 and was bounced from the World Cup of Hockey winless. But more than any reaction to the disappointing showing from...

Sandra Bullock (Jane) and Anthony Mackie (Ben) in “Our Brand Is Crisis.” PHOTO COURTESY WARNER BROS. PICTURES

REVIEW: “Our Brand Is Crisis” struggles to strike balance between politics, comedy

Allegra Peelor October 30, 2015

“Our Brand Is Crisis,” David Gordon Green’s latest film, portrays a fictionalized version of the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) is a retired American campaign...

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