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Marcella Bombardieri

As a reporter with the Spotlight Team, Bombardieri works on in-depth projects. She was previously an award-winning higher education reporter, and she covered the 2008 presidential campaign and reported in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Latest stories

Berklee, BU added to edX online class initiative

By Katherine Landergan and Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff

One year after Harvard University and MIT launched the $60 million program, 15 new schools were added as participating universities.

15 schools join online classroom initiative

By Marcella Bombardieri and Katherine Landergan , Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent

Berklee College of Music and BU are among the new participants in edX, a not-for-profit initiative that offers online classes at no charge.

At commencement, BU honors the fallen

By Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Staff

The school awarded posthumous degrees to Marathon victim Lu Lingzi and Binland Lee, a senior who died last month in a fire.

UMass Dartmouth tries to put the focus on school life again

By Marcella Bombardieri and Jeremy C. Fox , Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent

The school, attended by one of the accused Marathon bombers and three charged with trying to cover up his role, is trying to move on.