Like a lot of great ideas, the idea of an app that connects people through meals started, well, over a meal. Ivy Tran, a senior at Brandeis and co-founder of the Strangers app, said she was eating in ...

When Brandeis University student Ivy Tran walked into the dining hall on a wintery evening last year, she was, as always, dismayed by the mundane silence flooding the room. She sat with a few ...