Photo Essay: A Look Back at Fall at BU
The season featured Splash, Lobster Night, a historic inauguration, and more
Photo Essay: A Look Back at Fall at BU
The season featured Splash, Lobster Night, a historic inauguration, and more
With the arrival of December and the promise of cold weather, we decided a final look back at fall 2024 at BU would set us up for what may be a long cold lonely winter. It was a busy season, marked by popular annual events like Splash, the semiannual student-club fair, the always-popular Lobster Night, BU Dining’s signature fall event, and the physics department’s Pumpkin Drop, as well as the historic inauguration of BU’s 11th president, Melissa L. Gilliam.
What’s more fun than riding on a light swing? Ask Noa Burrows (COM’28), who tried it on the BU Beach September 6 during Student Activities Weeks of Welcome Night of Lights.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Members of BU SOON Movement, a student-led nondenominational Christian religious organization, were among the hundreds touting their groups during Splash, the fall student club fair, September 7. Representatives from more than 400 organizations were on hand to welcome new members.
Photo by Julian Massari (ENG’26)
BU women’s club basketball team members Grace Mallozzi (ENG’26) (left) and Erin Huban (ENG’27) showing off their ball-handling skills at Splash, September 7.
Photo by Julian Massari (ENG’26)
Marciano Commons drew a packed crowd September 19 as students thronged to one of BU Dining’s most popular events—Lobster Night. Nearly 10,000 lobsters were served at the Marciano, Warren, and West dining halls.
Photo by Ajani Hickling (CAS’27)
Melissa L. Gilliam was inaugurated as Boston University’s 11th president during a ceremony at Agganis Arena on September 27.
Photo by Janice Checchio
Studying near the BU Beach on a warm October day.
Photo by Cydney Scott
A bird’s-eye view from the upper floors of BU’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences shows the early October start of fall foliage.
Photo by Cydney Scott
BU’s LGBTQIA+ Student Center and the BU Arts Initiative hosted a celebration of National Coming Out Day at the GSU October 9. The event featured a photo booth, zine-making, karaoke, bouquet-making, and refreshments. Oh, and some art-creating—Johanna Kaplan (CAS’27) paints a potted succulent plant to take home.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Despite a record drought, the October fall foliage season delivered its usual dazzling display of color.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Comm Ave through a GSU window, October 9.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
View of Talbot Green from the School of Medicine instructional Building.
Photo by Cydney Scott
President Melissa Gilliam greeting a guest at the 10th annual Mothers Against Violence National Conference, hosted by Mothers for Justice & Equality October 17 and held at BU’s Hawes Street building in Brookline. Among the speakers at the conference were Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Ruthzee Louijeune, Boston City Council president.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Behind the scenes view of Marsh Plaza, October 24.
Photo by Cydney Scott
In honor of STEM Week, BU Government & Community Affairs and Wheelock College of Education & Human Development hosted 70 fifth and sixth graders from Boston’s Trotter Elementary School at BU’s Charles River Campus October 25, starting with STEM experiments at Wheelock. Melody Xu (Wheelock’26) (center) was among those lending a hand to the visitors.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Patrick Marcley of The Christmas Light People in Tewksbury hanging lights outside the George Sherman Union October 29.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
The BU physics department drew scores of people to its iconic Pumpkin Drop on October 30. More than 30 pumpkins filled with gooey substances were dropped from the Metcalf Science Center roof to the plaza 70 feet below. The annual event provides lessons in gravitation, velocity, and energy transition, from potential to kinetic to explosion, and department students give physics demos before and after the pumpkins meet their fate.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Terriers enjoying an unseasonably warm Halloween on the COM lawn October 31.
Photo by Cydney Scott
A maple tree in all its autumnal splendor, November 4.
Photo by Cydney Scott
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