Every college student craves a homemade meal from time to time, and BU College of Communication alumna Ivana Strajin was no exception. Strajin created the multicultural food documentary web series “HOMEMADE," which highlights international recipes and the stories behind them, after being inspired for her love of multi-generational dishes.

A recipient of the first-ever First Year Innovation Fellowship at the BUild Lab, freshman Junia Janvier, spent her first semester refining her passion project, “My Sisters Keeper,” a non-profit that would help seventh and eighth grade girls of color better acclimate to high school.