{"id":1439,"date":"2026-08-18T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/riselab\/?page_id=1439"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:27:06","slug":"for-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/riselab\/for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"For Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n  \/* Header & Banner Styles *\/\n  .page-header {\n    font-size: 3rem !important;\n    font-weight: 900 !important;\n    color: #FFFFFF !important;\n    margin: 0 !important;\n    padding: 0 20px !important;\n    line-height: 1 !important;\n    text-transform: uppercase !important;\n    letter-spacing: 2px !important;\n    text-align: center !important;\n    text-shadow: 3px 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) !important;\n  }\n  \/* Main Default Banner Box *\/\n  .banner-box {\n    position: relative !important;\n    z-index: 2 !important;\n    width: 80vw !important;\n    max-width: 1122px !important;\n    margin: 0 auto !important;\n    text-align: center !important;\n    padding: 55px 0px !important;\n    box-sizing: border-box !important;\n    background-color: rgba(30, 20, 50, 0.8) !important;\n    line-height: 1 !important;\n  }\n  .banner-box p, \n  .banner-box br {\n    display: none !important;\n    margin: 0 !important;\n    padding: 0 !important;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  \/* Main Container *\/\n  .for-students-container-exact {\n    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Arial, sans-serif !important;\n    background-color: transparent !important;\n    padding: 0 !important;\n    width: 80vw !important;\n    max-width: 1200px !important;\n    margin: 20px auto 40px auto !important;\n    box-sizing: border-box !important;\n    position: relative !important;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  \/* Hover-Only Scrollbar (Firefox) *\/\n  .courses-scroll-window {\n    scrollbar-color: transparent transparent !important;\n    transition: scrollbar-color 0.2s ease-in-out;\n  }\n  .courses-scroll-window:hover {\n    scrollbar-color: #624886 transparent !important;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  \/* Hover-Only Scrollbar (WebKit: Chrome, Safari, Edge) *\/\n  .courses-scroll-window::-webkit-scrollbar {\n    width: 6px !important;\n  }\n  .courses-scroll-window::-webkit-scrollbar-track { \n    background: transparent !important; 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letter-spacing: 1.2px !important; margin: 0 !important; text-align: left !important;\">Upcoming Courses<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- MC795 Card --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #ffffff !important; border: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-left: 5px solid #924b8a !important; border-bottom: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-radius: 4px !important; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) !important; padding: 16px 24px 0px 24px !important; margin-bottom: 16px !important; box-sizing: border-box !important; width: 100% !important;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.7rem !important; font-weight: 700 !important; color: #64748b !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; letter-spacing: 1.2px !important; margin: 0 0 4px 0 !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Spring 2027\n          <\/div>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 1.1rem !important; font-weight: 800 !important; color: #000000 !important; margin: 0 0 6px 0 !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-align: left !important;\">MC795: The Health of Adolescents and Emerging Adults<\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2b2b !important; line-height: 1.55 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; font-size: 0.83rem !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Adolescence is a critical period in the life course for health promotion, prevention, and intervention. It is a time when many young people experience vast developmental, social, and environmental changes while learning to navigate their health and adapt to new challenges; it is also a time when many diseases and disorders onset. In this course, students will learn to apply a developmental and health equity lens to public health research and practice to improve the lives of diverse adolescents and emerging adults. Students will gain foundational knowledge of frameworks and approaches in adolescent health, skills to critically evaluate public health research, and practical experience applying their learning to a project.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- SB747 Card --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #ffffff !important; border: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-left: 5px solid #924b8a !important; border-bottom: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-radius: 4px !important; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) !important; padding: 16px 24px 0px 24px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box !important; width: 100% !important;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.7rem !important; font-weight: 700 !important; color: #64748b !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; letter-spacing: 1.2px !important; margin: 0 0 4px 0 !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Spring 2027\n          <\/div>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 1.1rem !important; font-weight: 800 !important; color: #000000 !important; margin: 0 0 6px 0 !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-align: left !important;\">SB747: Gun Violence and Community Health Equity<\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2b2b !important; line-height: 1.55 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; font-size: 0.83rem !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Gun violence is a public health crisis in the U.S. that disproportionately affects communities of color. This community-partnered course brings students to the frontlines of efforts to prevent gun violence and address its traumatic aftermath, focusing on Massachusetts as a case study. Students review the epidemiology of gun violence, study structural underpinnings, learn directly from community organizations, and develop methodological skills in causal inference and quantitative evaluation. For their final deliverable, students partner with a community-based organization on an applied research proposal or analysis product.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Past Courses Heading --><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 24px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1rem !important; font-weight: 800 !important; color: #5b3c88 !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; letter-spacing: 1.2px !important; margin: 0 !important; text-align: left !important;\">Past Courses<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- SB747 Card (Past) --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #ffffff !important; border: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-left: 5px solid #924b8a !important; border-bottom: 1px solid #d1ced6 !important; border-radius: 4px !important; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04) !important; padding: 16px 24px 0px 24px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box !important; width: 100% !important;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.7rem !important; font-weight: 700 !important; color: #64748b !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; letter-spacing: 1.2px !important; margin: 0 0 4px 0 !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Spring 2026\n          <\/div>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 1.1rem !important; font-weight: 800 !important; color: #000000 !important; margin: 0 0 6px 0 !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-align: left !important;\">SB747: Gun Violence and Community Health Equity<\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2b2b !important; line-height: 1.55 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; font-size: 0.83rem !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n            Students partnered with community-level nonprofit <em>Uncornered<\/em> to learn directly from former gang members about the factors that shape community violence, translating their insights into community advocacy materials.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2026\/gun-violence-prevention-students-learn-from-frontline-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: #624886 !important; font-weight: 700 !important; text-decoration: underline !important; font-size: 0.83rem !important;\">&rarr; Read BU Feature Article<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <!-- ================= RIGHT COLUMN: SELECTED PROJECTS ================= --><\/p>\n<div class=\"layout-col-right\" style=\"width: calc(28% - 20px) !important; margin-left: 20px; display: block !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\">\n<p>      <!-- SELECTED PROJECTS HEADER --><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 16px 0 !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\">\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 1.25rem !important; font-weight: 900 !important; color: #924b8a !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; margin: 0 0 4px 0 !important; padding: 10px 0 0 0 !important; text-align: left !important; line-height: 1 !important; letter-spacing: 0.5px !important;\">SELECTED PROJECTS<\/h2>\n<div style=\"height: 2px !important; width: 55px !important; background-color: #924b8a !important; border-radius: 2px !important; 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font-weight: 600 !important; color: #c4b5fd !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; letter-spacing: 0.6px !important; line-height: 1.1 !important; margin-bottom: 10px !important;\">\n          <strong style=\"font-weight: 800 !important; color: #c4b5fd !important;\">Community Partners:<\/strong> We Are Better Together, Daniel Warren Hairston Project\n        <\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #f1edf7 !important; line-height: 1.45 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; font-size: 0.8rem !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n          Developed survey questions and conducted a preliminary mixed-method evaluation of WAB2G\u2019s annual healing retreat for women affected by gun violence.\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <!-- PROJECT 2: Hakeem Seidu-Aroza --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #3c2864 !important; border: 1px solid #5a428c !important; border-bottom: 3px solid #924b8a !important; border-radius: 2px !important; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) !important; 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line-height: 1.45 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; font-size: 0.8rem !important; text-align: left !important;\">\n          Identified data sources and assisted in developing qualitative interview materials for analysis of social and physical factors linked to firearm violence in city hotspots.\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <!-- PROJECT 3: Brice Hirwa & Georgia Zarola --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #3c2864 !important; border: 1px solid #5a428c !important; border-bottom: 3px solid #924b8a !important; border-radius: 2px !important; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) !important; padding: 16px 16px 0px 16px !important; margin-bottom: 8px !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.1rem !important; font-weight: 800 !important; color: #ffffff !important; margin: 0 0 10px 0 !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-align: left !important;\">School Sporting Events and Gun Violence<\/h3>\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.65rem !important; 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