Project Lever

11/30/2016

We made a partnership with Praxis Network - the best projects/internships in Europe!

PRAXIS is based in Portugal. Originally, the network was founded to offer opportunities for the engineering students, but now the network has grown to encompass the opportunities from many different fields. Among the 44 original partner universities, many were from the technical area, and the majority of offers came from the technical companies. The network of partnerships is still growing, and now includes over 120 universities around Europe. They are expanding to India, are about to sign a contract with Nepal, and plan expansion to the United States.

These days, now that PRAXIS has grown, there are still a lot of technical opportunities, but many more - including marketing, hotel services, tourism, in addition to traditionally technical opportunities in mechanical, electrical engineering, and even aerospace and space engineering.

Check out our The Huffington Post article about the collaboration!!!

Details here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/how-to-find-internships-i_b_12969892.html

11/03/2016

Our philosophy on university data management at TechCrunch by our founder Svetlana Dotsenko.

"Improving data access, usefulness and interoperability could go a long way in reforming higher education for the better. Fortunately, the problem of data sharing has already been successfully advanced in other industries, most notably healthcare. Leaders of educational technology could learn from their healthcare peers in establishing better data standards.

Let’s look at the issue of data access at universities and outline a few ways in which innovation could move forward."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/04/why-edtech-cant-grow-as-much-as-healthtech/

Educational technology is making a bold mark on the development of higher education. While edtech overall has seen quite a few successes in the past years,..

09/06/2016

Best way to start the year? Find a mentor!

Our team has spent the last three years deconstructing student success and achievement and connecting students with the resources that they need to succeed. From years of interviews with students, their faculty, and university administrators, we can confidently say: one of the main factors in their success was always quality mentorship.

Mentors opened many doors for our students, starting at the very beginning of college. Monica McFadden met her future mentor, Dr. Robert Nerenberg of the University of Notre Dame, on a visit to campus as she was still looking for colleges. Dr. Nerenberg told her that Notre Dame students could get involved in research even as freshmen; “It sold me on Notre Dame,” says McFadden. “I was debating between two schools, but I walked out of that meeting knowing where I wanted to go.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/starting-the-year-here-is_b_8080184.html?

Co-authored with Jessica Barzilay and Alicia Czarnecki.

08/23/2016

Our founder published an editorial on educational technology in Forbes today! We talk about the need for innovation around research administration and innovation at universities.

"The need for research innovation is arguably strongest at universities. Higher education is a vast market, in no small part due to the research enterprise. Last year, universities in the U.S. received nearly $70 billion in funding for research in science and the humanities, of which most was from the federal government. Funding for academic research is also growing rapidly internationally, such as in China, whose total research and development spending is now second only to the U.S.

Despite the scale of this research engine, technological progress has been slow to reach the mechanics of scholarly progress. Many faculty members report spending as much time on research as they do on administrative tasks. A commissioned review of the University of California Los Angeles pointed out that the university spends about a billion dollars a year on research but lacks a “formal, guiding technology strategy for research administration.”

Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2016/08/23/the-future-of-educational-technology-how-edtech-is-still-ignoring-its-biggest-market/

How educational technology can improve academic and scientific progress.

08/06/2016

Let us talk about careers in data science! Mathematics, statistics, data analysis skills are quite big on the job market these days, I hear questions from people all over the world (literally - from Cambridge to Kazakhstan) about the best way to apply their technical skills.

To learn about math careers, I asked my friend Alexander Isakov. Alexander did his bachelor at Harvard in physics and math, and then stayed at Harvard to do a PhD in physics, which he finished this year (congratulations!!) Alex has tried himself in many fields, to much success: his PhD focused on physical and social networks; he invented a medical device for surgeons and spun it off into a well-funded startup; he started a data science company.

For the past few years, Alex has worked on understanding the behavior of complex systems both in his role as an academic and as a businessman. “I have always been interested in understanding the macroscopic world; how we affect the world we actually see and consciously interact with every day and how it affects us, often without our knowledge”, he says.

Read more on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/how-to-build-a-career-in-_b_11247814.html

02/24/2016

Trying to email faculty member for that recommendation letter? Feel like they won't get back to you? Hmmm.

Are you wondering how to email professors and almost GUARANTEE that they will get back to you?

Here is our new Huffington Post article. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/how-to-email-professors-and-virtually-guarantee-the-response_b_9190904.html

02/10/2016

Tips for studying abroad - from The Onion!

- Do some advance research to figure out which program is right for you. Europe is generally life-changing, whereas South America tends to be more eye-opening.

- Before choosing, carefully consider those countries your friends say are most fun versus those your other friends say are most fun.
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To avoid homesickness, pack at least one close relative.

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/tips-studying-abroad-52336

Here are The Onion’s tips for how to make the most of your college semester abroad

01/27/2016

"Remember the exhilarating feeling of achievement as we climb up the ladder?" - Yoko Ono

Would you like to become an artist in New York City? Read our newest blog post from a visual artist Xinran Yuan!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/how-to-build-a-career-as-an-artist_b_9018384.html

01/21/2016

Want to cure cancer? Write a novel? Go to space? Connect with the faculty advisors on your campus to make it all possible.

01/19/2016

Are you thinking of start-ups? Meet Riley and read about his journey in our new The Huffington Post article!

Riley Soward is a sophomore at Boston College and a founder of Campus Insights, a startup that assists companies with UX/UI testing and marketing research among college student users. Riley is warm, energetic and a constant learner; he might be just starting out, but he was just selected as one of Boston's top 25 founders under 25.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/from-ramen-noodles-to-startup-innovation_b_8956934.html

01/12/2016

Are you passionate about public health? Writing? Non-profit work? How do you turn this passion into actual success in college?

Read the story of Isra Hussain, a star mental health student at Boston College. Isra started with NO research experience and was just awarded all the prestigious scholarships imaginable at BC.

Article from our founder Svetlana Dotsenko in HuffPost College!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/svetlana-dotsenko/how-to-turn-your-passion-into-success-in-college_b_8929796.html

How do you build a career in a field that you are passionate about? How do you turn your interests into clear success down the line? In the next few posts, I will talk about the link between passion and action in a few fields, starting with my personal favorite field of public health today.

12/11/2015

Our university partners have THE most beautiful offices in the world. Just look at Boston College!!!!!