Author: Melinda Marie Rossi
Refer a Friend Summer: Earn $10
If you are a past LIBRE participant, you can refer a friend to us and receive $10! The Refer a Friend Summer program is only taking place in July and August. To qualify, have a burn survivor friend that is interested in taking the LIBRE survey contact us. The burn survivor must be: 18 years or older Had a burn […]
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Don’t miss out on updates about the LIBRE Project, our research findings and other interesting LIBRE happenings – sign up for our newsletter! These newsletters will only go out a few times a year. They’re the best way to stay in touch with everything going on at LIBRE. Go to our newsletter page to sign […]
LIBRE Animated Infographic Updated!
LIBRE’s informational video has had a redesign! This short animated infographic was created last fall to describe our project in a minute and a half. Over the past few months, we’ve worked with Boston University’s student run advertising agency, AdLab, to spruce up the graphics to give the video a smoother look and feel and […]
LIBRE in Chicago: American Burn Association 47th Annual Meeting
Phew, Team LIBRE made it back to Boston safely after a whirlwind week in Chicago, IL for the American Burn Association 47th Annual Meeting. The week was packed full of meetings with burn survivor groups and burn clinicians, giving and attending presentations, displaying our research through posters, and talking with people at our LIBRE booth […]
Explaining LIBRE – New Infographic Poster
How do you explain the LIBRE project in one visually appealing poster? On a single page, how do you show the impact burn injury has on daily life, why it needs to be studied and how the LIBRE Questionnaire will help us better understand and improve burn recovery? Well, we tasked a group of Boston […]
“The New Normal”: LIBRE in Boston University News
The LIBRE Project has made it into Boston University School of Public Health news! The article highlights the story of an amazingly resilient burn survivor, Diana Tenney, on her personal path from traumatic injury to what she describes as her “new normal”. Interwoven with Diana’s story are the insights of Amy Acton, the executive director […]
Halfway There, 300 Surveys Completed!
Just a quick update from LIBRE headquarters, we officially hit 300 completed surveys this week! We are now half way to our goal for this phase of the project, to have 600 surveys completed by burn survivors. As always, we’re overjoyed by the willingness of burn survivors to take the time to answer our survey […]
LIBRE Animated Infographic Unveiled
In the Fall of 2014, the LIBRE team worked with Boston University’s student run ad-agency, AdLab, to create our first animated infographic! The infographic is our way of getting the word out, in an easy to understand format, about what LIBRE is and why it’s important. In under 2 minutes, this video explains the need […]
LIBRE Facebook Page Launched
We’re pleased to announce that LIBRE has officially joined Facebook! We plan to use this page to: keep our LIBRE community up to date with what’s going on at LIBRE; release findings from the LIBRE study; post interesting information on the social recovery of burn survivors; and stay in touch with past participants and others […]
200 Surveys Completed! Only 400 to go…
Less than two months since the second phase of the LIBRE project began and we have officially completed 200 surveys with burn survivors! With a goal of 600 completed surveys, we’re certainly not slowing down in LIBRE headquarters but we wanted to take a moment to celebrate this milestone. From our kickoff at the World […]