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Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Getting in the swing, Cassius Costabile carries Medfield boys' volleyball past O'Bryant in Division 2
'Usually, I don't have the big confidence to swing all the way through, but I was like, it's playoffs,' Costabile said. 'I just have to swing right through. No matter what, as soon as I got that set, confidence went up, I made sure I swung.' Medfield (14-7) dropped the second set, and struggled to contain Otavio Perks (31 kills) without opposite Elliot Webster, but picked it up after the second set loss. Coach Jerry Shu believes finishing strong will give the team momentum moving forward. Advertisement 'I love these guys,' he said. 'They're a streaky, hot-cold team. When they're on, they're on. So hopefully, you know, when we get that switch, we take a little bit more caffeine and play hard when we go to whoever's next. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Division 1 State Lowell 3, Boston Latin 0 — Vitou Seng (33 assists), Aundre Rivera (11 kills), and Gianni Rodriguez (10 kills, 6 blocks) lifted the No. 14 Red Raiders (19-2) to a first round victory over No. 19 Boston Latin. Ian Mao added eight kills. Milford 3, Chelmsford 1 — Gus Da Silva (23 kills) and Diego Inacio-Santos (15 kills) powered the No. 22 Scarlet Hawks (13-9) to a first-round win at No. 11 Chelmsford (17-4). Advertisement Milford reached the semifinals last season and showed flashes of being a top team this season, but struggled to replicate its power ranking in the first season of the Hockomock League, where it shared the title. 'Chelmsford was a really solid team and it was hard to contain [outside] Ridty Tauch, but libero Mayck Moreira and defensive specialist Jude Moffitt passed really well to keep us in system,' said coach Andrew Mainini. 'We were really well-prepared going into the match and it paid off.' Newton South 3, St. John's Prep 2 — Outsides Yonatan Rotem and Levin Brenner, along with libero Yaroslav Ivanchenko kept the passing game strong for the No. 17 Lions (10-9), which earned a 17-25, 25-16, 18-25, 25-20, 15-11 victory at No. 16 St. John's Prep (14-7). South trailed, 8-3, in the fifth, but made the comeback with Auri Suder, Ashish Uhlmann, and Udaii Abu Amara coming up with key blocks late in the match. 'We played an outstanding SJP team today, it really could have gone either way,' said coach Lucas Coffeen. 'The South boys were gritty, coming back from down two sets to one.' Revere 3, Wachusett 0 — Larry Claudio (14 kills, 8 assists) and Chris Choc Chavez (17 assists) propelled the No. 29 Patriots (16-5) to a preliminary victory. Juan Perez and Kawan Diaz added six kills apiece. St. John's (Shrewsbury) 3, Springfield Central 2 — Francis McGonagle dominated with 28 kills, 9 digs, 5 aces, and 2 blocks for the No. 23 Pioneers (10-10) in a 27-29, 28-26, 25-16, 24-26, 15-13 first round victory at No. 10 Springfield Central. Phil Vignaly added 13 kills, 5 digs, and 4 blocks, and Ani Vasudevan (43 assists, 6 blocks, 4 digs, 2 kills, 1 ace) was crucial in the 27-29, 28-26, 25-16, 24-26, 15-13 decision. Advertisement Woburn 3, North Quincy 1 — Marcio Castro recorded 16 kills and five blocks to power the No. 30 Tanners (14-7) to a preliminary win. AJ Traub can be reached at
Boston Globe
19-04-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Boston Chamber teams up with BPS to allow business leaders to shadow school principals
Advertisement Jim Rooney, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce passes the alma mater statue while touring Boston Latin School, his alma mater. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff From left to right: Jason Gallagher, head of school at Boston Latin School, Jim Rooney, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and Katherine Craven, chief administrative and financial officer at Babson College, talk in the auditorium at Boston Latin School. Rooney and Craven were shadowing Gallagher as part of the Principal Partners program; all three are Boston Latin alum. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Ever since Rooney started in his role as chamber chief executive a decade ago, he's been trying to better integrate the business community and Boston Public Schools. Some companies, such as Natixis and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, already had specific school partnerships established. But Rooney found it hard to make much traction for a broader chamber effort with previous school superintendents. Then came Skipper, a well regarded Somerville school administrator who was tapped by Mayor Michelle Wu in 2022 to lead BPS. Skipper and Rooney already knew each other; they actually live on the same street in Dorchester. So they hit it off quite easily. Among the fruits of those discussions: an agreement to help develop a financial literacy curriculum, to be rolled out this fall, and the Principal Partners shadowing event, reviving a concept similar to the 'Principal for a Day' program last tried in 2018. Advertisement Boston Public Schools superintendent Mary Skipper, right, talks with seventh-grader Iker Monrroy, during his earth/space science class at Boston Latin School. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff On Thursday, the business leaders shadowed principals throughout the morning, then came together at Bank of America's offices on Federal Street to debrief. Rooney, Skipper, and Wu all spoke, as did B of A executive Miceal Chamberlain. Rooney said the shadowing program will build a stronger connection between the business community and the city's schools. That in turn can help teachers keep pace with the city's ever-changing workforce needs, Rooney said, and send a good message to the kids when 'big branded Boston companies' are volunteering on their behalf. Plus, some of his members can provide expertise in developing the school system's new financial literacy program. 'Historically, the school department has been hard to help,' Rooney said. 'In the past, they defined 'partnership' as 'write me a check.' [Businesses] will do that as a matter of goodwill. But I wanted to do something deeper than that.' Jim Rooney, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, talks with seventh-grader Amani Sabir while touring Boston Latin School, his alma mater. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Jon Chesto can be reached at
Express Tribune
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
‘The Bear' star Ayo Edebiri honored at Boston Latin with official city day
Emmy-winning star Ayo Edebiri visited Boston Latin School on April 10, 2025, as Mayor Michelle Wu declared it Ayo Edebiri Day. Best known for her roles in The Bear, Abbott Elementary, Bottoms, and Inside Out 2, Edebiri reflected on how Boston Latin helped shape her both personally and professionally. Calling the visit 'very, very surreal,' she spoke fondly about the school's rigor and the long-lasting friendships she formed there. Edebiri credited the school's diverse community and academic challenge for giving her a strong foundation. 'There's a rigor that I have, a level of care that I think that I have that would not be possible without having gone to this school,' she told students, adding that exposure to classmates from different backgrounds helped prepare her to 'meet the world.' The Bear star also shared how improv at Boston Latin changed her life. Starting in eighth grade, improv helped Edebiri overcome shyness and gain confidence, which led her to pursue a career in entertainment. When asked for advice by aspiring actors, she emphasized perseverance: 'Being in the entertainment industry is a game of attrition… being able to stick it out is one of the most valuable things you can do.' Mayor Wu closed the event by honoring Edebiri's accomplishments with an official proclamation, celebrating her journey from Dorchester to Hollywood, and naming April 10 as Ayo Edebiri Day in Boston.
CBS News
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Ayo Edebiri makes "surreal" visit to Boston Latin, credits school with contributing to her success
"The Bear" actor and Boston native Ayo Edebiri paid a visit to her alma mater Boston Latin School on Thursday, where she spoke to students about her time there before she was honored by the mayor. Joined by Mayor Michelle Wu, Edebiri called it "very, very surreal" to be back at her high school, telling the student body she envied them getting out of class for the assembly. "I will say that the people who I consider my closest friends, I went to Latin with and are still in my life and I'm hopeful will be in my life forever," said Edebiri. "It's such a specific experience going to this school ... there's a rigor that I have, a level of care that I think that I have that would not be possible without having gone to this school. I think it really shapes you and molds you." Edebiri also spoke about how the diverse student body at Boston Latin prepared her. "There's so many people who were from completely different walks of life than where I was from," said Edebiri, who got cheers from the audience when she said she was from Dorchester. "Coming here to school, I was like, oh, I didn't have friends from any other neighborhoods in Boston and friends from different religious backgrounds and not many different ethnic backgrounds. By the time I was ready to go to college, I felt, like, ready to meet the world." Edebiri said she started doing improv at Boston Latin when she was in eighth grade and said doing so changed her life. "I was really shy, I was really not the most confident public speaker," said Edebiri, who remembered reciting a speech from "Julius Caesar." "I'm almost 30 and I still remember it. I remember that performance specifically. I was so nervous, I was shaking. I remember just looking into Ms. McDonald's eyes because if I don't, I might pass out. But then I did it, I made it to the end. And then she was like, 'That was really good!' And I was like, maybe something's here." Edebiri also said Latin taught her to face challenges and always had teachers who were there to help her understand things, like math problems. After speaking with Wu, Edeberi took some questions from the students in the audience. When asked what her advice is for someone looking to get into the entertainment industry, the Edeberi shared something she heard from a teacher at NYU. "Being in the entertainment industry is a game of attrition. It's not a game of luck, or chance, or skill, even sometimes. It's really a matter of attrition and being able to stick it out because it can be a very unpredictable, volatile industry. And being able to be steadfast and be able to stick it out is, I think, one of the most valuable things you can do." At the end of the event, Wu presented Edebiri with a proclamation naming April 10, 2025 as Ayo Edebiri Day. Wu said the honor was to recognize Edebiri for her accomplishments as a Boston native. Ayo Edebiri is best known for her work on "The Bear," for which she won an Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics' Choice Award. Edebiri has also appeared on the TV show "Abbott Elementary," co-starred in the movie "Bottoms" and voiced a character in the Disney Pixar movie "Inside Out 2." She graduated from Boston Latin in 2013 before going on to NYU.
Boston Globe
06-04-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
With universities threatened, can Boston still be Boston?
And Boston is confronting a once-implausible question: Will its core identity survive? Advertisement 'Boston is the target in this fight,' Mayor Michelle Wu said in her State of the City speech last month. 'We were built on the values this federal administration seeks to tear down.' There has rarely been cause to question that key component of the city's identity, since John Harvard donated some 800 pounds of sterling, and his library of 400 books, to the fledgling college that would bear his name, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. The first public school in the country, Boston Latin, was founded in Boston a year earlier; the state's constitution required every town to establish grammar schools. Advertisement In the centuries since, that formative focus on education has shaped nearly every aspect of the city and state -- Massachusetts consistently ranks near the top in national test scores and health measures -- contributing to its politically liberal identity and an ingrained sense of superiority that has long been a target of anti-elitist fervor. Beyond the bragging rights they afforded the city, colleges and universities brought enduring economic stability. Enormous investments in research by the federal government, going back to its collaboration with university scientists who helped develop weapons during World War II, fueled decades of technological and biomedical advances, and steady growth in Boston's educational and medical sectors, where federal research funding built a bedrock foundation. In the last fiscal year, Harvard alone received $686 million in federal research grants, while as a group, Massachusetts universities took in more than $2 billion. That does not include separate funding for Boston's research hospitals: In fiscal 2024, Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham took in more than $1 billion from the National Institutes of Health. Altogether, Massachusetts receives more federal research funding per capita than any other state. Research discoveries have spurred private investments that define the city's landscape, in flourishing neighborhoods like Kendall Square in Cambridge, where biotech company Biogen has long been an anchor, and in Boston's Seaport District, where Vertex Pharmaceuticals built its headquarters. Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. Erin Clark/Globe Staff In recent weeks, the jolting disruption to complex funding cycles has caused growing concern about a wave of departures by academic researchers, who may choose to seek more stable funding and job prospects in the corporate world or at universities abroad. Advertisement 'Some will leave their science behind, and it will end -- after a huge investment, it just falls off a cliff,' said Dr. Wendy Chung, chief of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. 'The instability is very hard for people who are so hardworking and dedicated to their mission -- they can only be pushed so far before they break.' Detainments and deportations of international students from campuses including Tufts and Harvard have sent another surge of fear through a statewide education ecosystem in which 80,000 students, and as much as a third of the faculty on some campuses, have international backgrounds. Fewer may come in the future; others may return home sooner than planned. 'It makes no sense,' said Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, of the federal crackdown. In a statement, she cited negative impacts for cancer and Alzheimer's patients, and for the country's competitiveness, 'with tens of thousands of international students second-guessing coming to school here, and China and other countries recruiting our talented faculty and researchers.' On Friday, Massachusetts led a coalition of 16 states in suing the Trump administration 'over its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the National Institutes of Health.' The Trump administration has said that to keep their funding, universities must move aggressively to curb campus antisemitism. In a letter to Harvard, officials demanded that the university review programs that 'fuel antisemitic harassment' and 'commit to full cooperation' with the Department of Homeland Security. Hundreds of Harvard faculty have signed a letter urging the university to resist the demands. Advertisement Vice President JD Vance, a graduate of Yale Law School, has praised the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, for aggressively using funding cuts to stamp out certain curricula and rein in 'left-wing domination' of universities. 'We should be really aggressively reforming them in a way to where they're much more open to conservative ideas,' Vance said in an interview last year. As deeply felt as the cuts could be in Massachusetts, where colleges provide 320,000 jobs and $70 billion in annual economic impact, the pain would extend far beyond New England, city and campus leaders said. Patients around the world would wait longer for lifesaving medical breakthroughs, they warned; towns around the country would lose opportunities to manufacture products invented in Boston and neighboring Cambridge. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, years of groundbreaking research into fusion energy led to recently announced plans to build the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia, an investment of billions. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on March 19. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe 'It matters to us here because it's our economy and employment, but it benefits everyone, in red states and blue states,' Wu said in an interview. Wu, a progressive Democrat, is among the high-achieving Boston transplants who came to the city because of its colleges: The valedictorian of her high school class in Chicago, she enrolled at Harvard to study economics, then returned to attend Harvard Law School. In Harvard Yard on a recent Saturday, there was little outward sign of the turmoil behind the scenes, as tourists waited in a long line to pose for photos with a statue of John Harvard. The university attracts 650,000 visitors each year, a boon to local tourism; one study found that all the college commencements held across the state each spring deliver a combined economic boost roughly equivalent to two Super Bowls. Advertisement Thrust into uncertainty, scientific researchers around the city said their ability to plan ahead has been decimated. David Corey, a Harvard neurobiologist seeking treatments for Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes blindness and deafness, said he had been making rapid progress, and aiming to launch clinical trials of new therapies, when the funding shake-up began. 'Now, we don't know what's going to happen,' he said. 'Every day the news is different. I have to pay people who work in my lab, so if I don't know if a grant is coming, do I let people go? I have people who have been with me for 25 years, 10 years. There's institutional memory there that is important.' Chung, of Boston Children's, has already felt the brunt of the cuts. A former Columbia University faculty member who came to Boston two years ago, she lost a major funding source for her long-term autism research last month when the Trump administration canceled $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia, alleging that the school had failed to adequately fight antisemitism. Dr. Brittany Charlton, the founding director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, lost nearly all of her funding; she has terminated staff members, given up her salary and may have to shut down her research, she said. A plaintiff in a separate lawsuit challenging the cuts, she said the damage will ripple forward for years to come, as early-career scientists reconsider their options. Advertisement 'Some of the brightest minds may abandon their work,' she said. Growing up in a small town in Alaska, Alyssa Connell had dreamed of a career as a doctor and researcher in Boston. She cried when an email arrived in December, offering her a coveted spot in a dual degree program at the UMass Chan Medical School, an hour west of the city. Connell cried again last month when another email upended her plans: The university was rescinding all offers of admission to doctoral programs for this fall 'due to ongoing uncertainties related to federal funding of biomedical research.' 'It was a gut punch,' said Connell, 23, a teaching assistant and research technologist at Penn State University, where her work is focused on neurodegenerative disease. So far, only her doctoral program acceptance has been rescinded, so she still plans to enroll this fall at the UMass medical school. But her financial aid package, which would have covered the cost of both degrees, was canceled, she said. 'I don't know how I'm going to pay rent, but hopefully I'll figure it out and still find a way to participate in research,' she said. 'I'm still very excited about moving to Boston.' 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