At Year Up, Isaac is doing his life’s work: working in innovation, at the intersection of human-centered design and racial equity.
Read MoreSchool of Medicine alumnus Mark Dowell and his wife Caryn strive to make a difference wherever, and whenever, they can.
Read MoreAn interactive retrospective of the year at Suffolk.
Read MoreA single mother and program coordinator at Harvard, Kio bet on herself to reach her full potential.
Read MoreChristian, who works as an Associate Insights Analyst at LinkedIn, finds creative parallels between cooking and coding.
Read More“I told myself, ‘I’m going to give it 100 percent and I’m going to see where it takes me,’” Joseph said of his Year Up internship.
Read MoreHow Steven turned his dream of working in the healthcare industry into a blossoming career in project management at Kaiser.
Read MoreAlonzo, Kadeesha, and Tim Tower say their family can’t go to the store without one another. Alongside their three other siblings, they have performed gospel music as a collective since they were small children. When attending church, all six Tower kids sit in the same row as their mother. Attending Year Up? For these three, it was no different. The Towers all went together.
Read MoreAs the first Year Up interns at the online retailer, Freddy Sandoval and Richard Hector Jr. helped show the company a new pipeline of talent.
Read MoreThe MetroWest Daily News
Doctors and breast cancer advocates across Massachusetts are lauding recent advancements in treating the disease - new drugs, new chemotherapy treatments, new screening and biopsy techniques. But even with the large number of advocates and an emphasis on awareness, they say some women are still falling through the cracks.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A gang member fresh out of prison works the door of a Providence nightclub. Officers in San Diego arrest a bouncer accused of beating and bloodying a drunken patron. In New York City, a parolee hired to protect clubgoers sexually assaults and kills one.
Most bouncers carry clean records and do their jobs without incident, but many cities say the bad apples are spoiling the nightlife barrel. Providence is the latest trying to license bouncers, hoping to train them better, ease police workloads and erase their image as thugs on a power trip.
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NORTH EASTON, Mass.—Raccoons have eaten holes into the plaster ceiling and bats have taken to nesting in the walls of the Borderland State Park's Smith Farmhouse, a historic two-story Cape Cod-style home built around 1880.
But beyond the ripped ceilings, peeling white paint and cracking linoleum floors, Paul Folkman and Carrie Crisman see a holistic learning center and retreat where visitors can do yoga, stargaze, or even hold weddings.
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BOSTON - James Marzilli abandoned his duties as a state senator and left the Statehouse after he was arrested last June on charges of trying to grope four women in broad daylight while visiting suburban Lowell on official business.
Still, the embarrassment didn't keep Marzilli from trying to make his resignation effective Jan. 6, which would have allowed him to qualify for an extra year in his state pension because he technically held the post a few days in 2009.
Read MoreThe Associated Press
Meghan McCloskey heard the call to service when she was in college, applying to the Peace Corps during her senior year. That call only got louder as she realized her shrinking job options in the faltering economy.
Read MoreThe Boston Globe
Tina Wambolt knew she needed help battling her alcoholism. What she didn't need were strip searches and a cell in the Framingham women's prison.
Wambolt, 33, of Ashby, fell through a crack in the Massachusetts legal system, into a gap that routinely sends women with serious alcohol or substance abuse problems to the women's state prison when no beds are available in treatment facilities.
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