CultureHouse Harvard Square

Creator(s): Rongsen Hu, Fabiola Matos Ruiz, Jackie Peterson, Alexis Rosales-Hernandez Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs The Capstone Team has partnered with CultureHouse to work together in their upcoming pop-up at Harvard Square. The newsstand building located in Harvard Square has a rich cultural history, which the City of Cambridge has been…

Family Nurturing Center

Creator(s): Francis DeLuca, Xianjie Meng, McKayla Quinn-Steineke, Harshita Sarup, Shiyuan Zhang Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs Family Nurturing Center (FNC) provides instructional programming to families that helps parents improve their parenting skills while contributing to their children’s development. FNC’s facilitators need constructive feedback from parents to ensure that both are realizing…

Boston Winter Experience Evaluation

Creator(s): Kevin Coga, Katherine Cutler, Parikshit Sunil Talokar, Fangyu Zhao Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs Placemaking is the process of planning, management and design of urban spaces using local and community assets in order to improve the space that residents live in. For this project, our goal was to evaluate three…

Campus Hunger Research Presentation Video

Creator(s): Alexandros Kefalas, Bhargav Reddy Course: ENGW3308 Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences After Bhargav and Alexandros spent their time learning about Food Insecurity, they decided to take it once step further by researching campus hunger, a very prominent issue throughout the United States and a particular issue that our community partner, NU Mutual Aid,…

Professor O’Connell’s AM Cornerstones of Engineering Class Final Refection Compilation

Creator(s): Anushka Sundar, Taina Nieves, Isaac Martin, Natan Rubin, Sarah Rescsanski, William Masterman, Alison Fogelberg, Andrew Lynch, Rowan Campbell, Henry Gao, Allison Evin, Jonah Berlin, Zachary Avitabile, James Beckman, Charlie Lange Course: GE1501 Cornerstones of Engineering Presented here is a compilation of the Final Reflections students submitted after completing their Service-Learning experience. These reflections aid…

Community Learning 2 – Service Learning Reflection

Creator(s): Ke Cao, Dingnuo Xiao, Jiewen Zheng, Lujia Shen, Yuru Hu Course: ESLG0130 Community Learning 2 Through this thoughtfully crafted reflection video, we showcase the impactful service work of our Community Learning course students in various community organizations across Boston. As international students, they acquired vital skills during their service projects and gained a profound…

Visualizing Boston’s Opioid Epidemic

Creators: Kai Beattie, Gina Le, Nuha Manzoor, Arya Shukla Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization The motivation for the formation of this group is to collaborate with the Massachusetts Avenue Coalition to produce meaningful data visualizations to communicate data related to Boston’s opioid epidemic and its impact on the surrounding community. Some motivating questions for…

Businesses on Mass Ave

Creators: Minghui Cheng, Julia DiPinto, Carlo Dugo, Julia Geller Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Massachusetts Avenue is one of the main thoroughfares of Boston, MA, containing businesses, parks, college campus, commuter rail stations and so on, which is almost everything of a city. Our main goal of this project is to help the Mass…

Cornerstone of Engineering First Year Reflections

Creator: Joie Kelly Course: GE1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1, GE1502 Cornerstones of Engineering 2 A compilation of the first-year student’s reflections on service learning this past semester!…

Mass Ave Neighborhood Input Analysis

Creators: Isabel Silva, Vaughn Luthringer, Mirah Gordon Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Our final project centers around the data collected at the Mass Ave Coalition Fall Festival and is first and foremost a data exploration project. Festival-goers who visited the Northeastern booth had the opportunity to respond to three prompts to provide feedback about…