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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Is modern dating killing the anniversary?

Analise Bruno April 4, 2025
Whether it's your 36th wedding anniversary, your 16th birthday or even your 55th anniversary of establishing that one newspaper — milestones come in all forms — these dates are worth acknowledging. 
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Three’s a crowd — here’s how you should handle your love triangle

Analise Bruno February 23, 2025
The truth is, you can be dating the nicest and sweetest guy in the world, but that doesn’t mean he’s the one for you. If love was the only thing needed to maintain a relationship, no one would ever break up.
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.
BU Spark! on the second floor of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences. Spark! partnered with the Center for Innovation in Social Science in 2023 to apply data science and computational skills to social science research. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

CISS and Spark! partnership combines quantitative data and social science in research

Sara Sugita March 7, 2024
The partnership between Spark! and the Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) began in 2023 to apply data science and computational skills to social science research, according to the CISS website. CISS and Spark! partnership was made possible by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences dedicated to experiential learning, initiated by Dean Stan Sclaroff, according to the CISS website. The interdisciplinary nature of the partnership aligns with Spark!’s goals, “to be the bridge between the computing and data sciences and the rest of the university,” Ziba Cranmer, the director of Spark! said.
Fiona Whittington

COM alum Fiona Whittington promoted inclusion at BU, now sparks change for women in tech

Mara Mellits November 7, 2023
2024 Women of Impact Honoree and COM alum Fiona Whittington was not an average advertising student during her time at BU.
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Questrom students featured in Poets & Quants Most Disruptive Business School Startups

Sarah Cai February 3, 2023
The students drew inspiration from their upbringings to create their sustainability-focused startups.
The Center for Data and Computing Sciences under construction

New Data Science building becomes Spark!’s new home

Adithya Iyer December 2, 2022
The Center for Computing and Data Sciences will create room for the program to grow.
Before heading to the polls, voters play a game of Cards Against Humanity at Roxy’s Grilled Cheese in Allston. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pop-up events encourage Bostonians to vote early

Daily Free Press Staff October 30, 2016

After more than a year of campaigning and debates, the U.S. presidential election is drawing closer. From Oct. 24 to Nov. 4, Massachusetts residents are given the opportunity, for the first time, to vote...

Christian Cho speaks about identity at TEDxBU at BU Central Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HARRIS ALLEN

TEDxBU sparks talk of passion, engagement in first conference

Ellen Cranley April 6, 2015

About 100 Boston University students gathered Saturday at BU Central in the George Sherman Union for the first annual TEDxBU series of talks, which centered on a singular theme — “Spark.” Eleven...

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