Gone in a Flash

August 28, 2017, was Move-in day for the first wave, about 1,500, of BU students. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

September 14, 2017: The state-of-the-art research facility Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering ribbon-cutting: Gloria Waters, BU VP (from left), Robert A. Brown, BU president, trustee and benefactor Rajen Kilachand (Questrom’74, Hon.’14), Martin J. Walsh, Boston mayor, and Kenneth J. Feld (Questrom’70), Trustees chair. Photo by Cydney Scott

Send Silence Packing, Active Minds’ traveling exhibition of donated backpacks representing college students lost to suicide each year, at the BU Beach September 27, 2017. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Flags nationwide were flown at half-staff after the mass shooting in Las Vegas October 1, 2017. Photo by Janice Checchio

The Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials ribbon-cutting, October 2, 2017: Jean Morrison, provost (from left), Robert A. Brown, president, Thomas Bifano, Photonics Center director, Alice White, ENG mechanical engineering chair, Chris Chen, ENG biomedical engineering professor, David Bishop, CELL-MET director, and Kenneth Lutchen, ENG dean. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

The BU Graduate Workers Union Speakout and Rally against Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, October 11, 2017. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

BU’s 35th Annual Joint Service Pass in Review: ROTC members participate in one of the country’s oldest military traditions, October 14, 2017. Photo by Derek Palmer

Ramsha Arshad (CAS’20) (left) and Ashni Shah (CAS’20) at the Girls Who Code BU coding workshop, Hack the Gap, October 21 and 22. Photo by Sarah Silbiger (COM’18)

October 27, 2017: During the annual physics department Pumpkin Drop, the gargantuan gourds filled with various substances are dropped in the name of science. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

President Brown, aka Rani Pan (SED’17,’18) (left), and Dean Kenneth Elmore, aka Amanda Spencer (Sargent’18), paid a special Halloween visit to Catering on the Charles. Photo by Kerri Dunn Hawker

Winter’s colorful precursor (almost) makes up for the season’s frozen, frosty, frigid onslaught. Photo by Chynna Benson (CGS’18)

Trimming the Marsh Chapel Christmas tree: Na Li (ENG’19) (from left), Beverly Brown, SPH director of development, industry, and Marsh Chapel Dean Robert Allan Hill. Photo by Cydney Scott

Dynnor Shebshaievitz (CGS’18) and other students mark the first night of the eight-night Jewish holiday Hanukkah at BU Hillel December 12, 2017. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

On January 4, 2018, the first major snowstorm of 2018 dumped more than a foot of snow on Boston and environs. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

BU, Boston, and Brookline police officers participated in an active shooter training exercise at BU FitRec, January 10, 2018. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

FitRec’s New Year Fun Day, January 25, 2018: Lucas De Oliveira (COM’18) (right), spotted by instructor Jon Wells, tries the aerial silks sampler. Photo by Lexi Pline (COM'19)

Club Sports and Intramural Spirit Night, January 31, 2018: Spirited pandemonium at the BU-Loyola men’s basketball game (BU 64, Loyola, 55). Photo by Cydney Scott

2018 Women’s Beanpot final, February 13, 2018: A heartbreaker for women’s hockey, a milestone for Victoria Bach (CGS’16, COM’18): her 100th goal. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Maggie Yu (CAS’18) performed at Journey to the West, the Chinese Students Association Culture Show and Lunar New Year Celebration, February 17, 2017. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

Taking advantage of an opportunity: a BU student did not let the brief late February balminess go to waste. Photo by Cydney Scott

National School Walkout, March 14, 2018. BU memorial and protest action honoring those killed at a Florida high school February 14: Jackie O’Brien (COM’20) (from left), Lindsay Fuori (CFA’18), Annie Zaruba-Walker (CFA’18), Shawna James (CFA’18). Photo by Cydney Scott

March 2018: Summer, fall, winter, spring, Counterpoint, by Russell Jacques (CFA’66), has weathered every season on the BU Beach since 1992. Photo by Janice Checchio

March 24, 2018: Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people worldwide, inspired and led by Parkland, Fla., students, joined in marches against gun violence. SPH and BU community marchers and a crowd of about 50,000 rallied on the Boston Common. Photo by Kelly Davidson

Former governor Deval Patrick (Hon.’14) preached at Marsh Chapel’s Sunday service honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59), April 8, 2017. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

US Figure Skating Collegiate National Champions: The BU Figure Skating Club took the championship for the second year in a row in April 2018, finishing with an astounding 23 top-3 finishes out of 30 events. Photo courtesy of US Figure Skating/Sarah Arnold

B.R.A.I.N. Day at Brookline HS, April 7, 2018: Demonstrating a brain-machine interface device are BU Mind and Brain Society members Carly Montague (CAS’18) (from left), Julius Frost (CAS’21), Emily Mallaber (CAS’20), and Aaron Hwang (ENG’21). Photo by Jake Belcher

Late April, 2018: The calendar says spring, and now, to the widespread relief of chilly New Englanders, the weather is catching up. Photo by Cydney Scott

For COM’s new course, Game of Thrones: The Virtual Final Season, film and television students created a six-episode version of how the HBO hit show should end and put on a staged reading and an exhibition of the Iron Throne, courtesy of HBO, in collaboration with BUTV10 Productions students in April. Katie Hansen (CGS’18) (from left), Shay Abid (CGS’18), Sonja Rojina (CAS’20), and Gabi Turi (COM’19) with the throne. Photo by Gaelen Morse (COM’18)

The CFA production of Antigone, with Holly Stewart (CFA’18) as Antigone, ran at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre in May. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19)

A BU Academy 25th anniversary gala was held May 5, 2018. BUA music and drama students performed A Day in the Life, a representation of a day at BUA, written for the gala by BUA music instructor Brett Abigaña. Photo by Dave Green