Photo Essay: A Look Back at Spring on Campus
The season featured Boston Marathon runners, Senior Week, Commencement, and more
Photo Essay: A Look Back at Spring on Campus
The season featured Boston Marathon runners, Senior Week, Commencement, and more
With summer officially here, we’re taking a look back at spring 2025 on campus, as captured by BU Today photographers. It was a busy season, marked by the Boston Marathon, the retirement of Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate and a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Senior Week, and BU’s 152nd Commencement ceremony. Take a look.
Enrique Gutierrez Wing, a College of Engineering master lecturer in mechanical engineering, was among many BU community members who ran the Boston Marathon to support a local charity. Photographed April 1, Wing ran in support of the Iris Johanna McDaniel Memorial Scholarship, established in honor of a colleague’s daughter.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
A bustling Morse Auditorium, April 4.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Jason Chu (CAS’28) (from left), Nicole Chen (CAS’28), and Le Mi (CAS’28) working on their project at the BU Spark! Art and Computing Mini-Hack on April 5. The three were creating a puzzle game incorporating three prompts—pattern, perception, and oscillation—a challenge they’d pulled from a bowl.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Daffodils transforming Comm Ave into a riot of color, April 8.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Singer-songwriter Sarah Lexa (COM’27), who released her debut album, From, A Less Cool Version of You, last August, was highlighted in BU Today’s new series, BU Soundcheck, featuring BU bands and singer songwriters, April 15.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Catching some sun in front of the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences, April 17.
Photo by Cydney Scott
The BU Beach sculpture Counterpoint, by Russell Jacques (CFA’66), often referred to as “the whale sculpture” because from a certain angle it resembles a whale, photographed April 17.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, leading one of his final graduate seminars in poetry April 18, before retiring after 36 years at BU.
Photo by Cydney Scott
A warm spring day on the BU Beach draws dozens of students, April 18.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Naiara Patiño (GRS’29) (from left), Ciarra Conston (GRS’29), and Máire Volz (GRS’28) working on an astronomy project together on the BU Beach, April 22.
Photo by Cydney Scott
A daily tradition: Alena Patel (CDS’27) (from left), Baria Mustafa (CDS’26), Isaac Williams (ENG’26), Kamsi Amaechina (ENG’26), and Ella Hain (CAS’26) working together on a crossword puzzle at the Duan Family Spark! Initiative at CDS, April 23.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Cristina Todesco, a CFA School of Theatre lecturer in scene design, and Lance Shook (CFA’27) during Todesco’s Graphic Rendering class in the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre, April 25.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Awe and excitement: Helen Chen (COM’23) (center) and Gracen Lashnits (Pardee’28) (right) look thrilled by magnets set up by Paul Trunfio (left), a CAS physics lecturer, to illustrate quantum locking (aka flux pinning, a phenomenon where a superconductor becomes trapped within a magnetic field, essentially levitating and staying in place) during Trunfio’s Elementary Physics II class, May 1.
Photo by Cydney Scott
BU’s beloved comfort dog, Bean, visits with students ahead of the Senior Class Breakfast at the GSU, May 2. The 2025 Commencement speaker, Senior Week lineup, honorary degree recipients, and Metcalf winners were announced at the breakfast.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Taking a break from studying for finals at CDS, May 6.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Mother and daughter, and soon-to-be grads, Caren Hunter (CAS’99, SSW’25, Wheelock’27) (left) and Annica Hunter (CGS’23, CAS’25) May 7, looking forward to their joint graduation at BU’s 152nd Commencement ceremony May 18.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Preparing for BU’s 152nd Commencement: Chris Parker of BU Facilities adds some finishing touches behind the GSU May 7.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Relaxing or boning up for finals? Maybe some of each: Bea Benavent (Sargent’27) (left) and Ashley Wilber (Sargent’27) on the BU Beach May 14.
Photo by Cydney Scott
BU graduating seniors taking advantage of a sunny May 14 for photos around Marsh Plaza.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Relaxing with Rhett: Akua Devall (COM’25) (left) and Malaika Ezetah (COM’25) with BU’s Terrier mascot on his favorite Bay State Road bench, May 14.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Mateo Balzola (ENG’25) (from left), Daniel Jude Monye (Sargent’25), Noah Hathout (ENG’25), Ahmad Sadiq (CAS’25), Amani Kaiya (Questrom’25), Andrew Smith (CAS’25), and Kwasi Antwi (CAS’25) levitating over the BU seal May 14. Legend (or superstition) has it that if you step on the seal before graduation, you won’t graduate.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Excited graduates celebrating during BU’s 152nd Commencement ceremony May 18.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
With the May 18 crowd on Nickerson Field larger than anticipated, employees from Facilities Management & Operations had to add chairs. The 2025 Commencement crowd was the largest in 30 years.
Photo by Cydney Scott
And they’re off! Newly minted graduates celebrate as BU’s 2025 Commencement ceremony ends, May 18.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
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