News and Updates
Introducing Our Artist in Residence for 2025
The Earl Center for Learning welcomes our 2025 Artist in Residence, Jeffrey Nowlin, whose work explores the complexities of human experience through weaving, embroidery, and found materials. His art connects themes of trauma, healing, and embodiment, inviting...
Join us for First Fridays at the Earl Center!
Join Us! If you are an undergraduate, graduate or doctoral student of color at BU, we invite you to join us for First Fridays. This is a unique opportunity to connect with others, share your experiences, and build a strong support network. Date: First Friday of Every...
BPS Students Explore Design and Making with the Earl Center
By Temperance Wu and Lynn BrownThis summer, the Strategic Partnerships & Community Engagement (SPACE) Office of BU Wheelock invited the Earl Center to host three Boston Public Schools students through a Private Industry Council (PIC) initiative. A series of...
White Boy/Disrupting Whiteness
Most students in U.S. public schools are young people of color. Over 80% of their teachers are white. A new collection of essays includes thoughts on these dynamics from 24 white educators, including the Earl Center's own Eli Tucker-Raymond with a chapter entitled...
Building Teacher Capacity in Computer Science Education
A new study by the Earl Center's Cliff Freeman (graduate student) and Eli Tucker-Raymond (Research Associate Professor) shows how a “near-peer” approach that includes college students serving as co-teachers can be effective. Read more here.Click here to access the...
Earl Center at AERA 2024
Join us at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference held April 11-14 in Philadelphia, PA where the Earl Center researchers will present current work and research findings. Presentation schedules and locations can be found below.Exploring the...
Earl Center Research Explores Impact of STEM on Young People
Developing young people’s sense of agency as STEM learners, community members, and creative thinkers is the driving force behind two projects led by BU Wheelock’s Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Nurturant STEM...
Join us, AGAIN! Help us design visual poetry through collage that speaks to social dreaming and radical hope. Collages will be captured digitally and prominently displayed in the Earl Center's open learning space. Come and leave your mark! Meet us at the Earl Center...
Collaging Design Workshop
Join us at the Earl Center for a material play experience. We'll learn about the principles of design through collage creation. Help us design visual poetry through collage that speaks to social dreaming and radical hope. Collages will be captured digitally and...
