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Photo: A student examining an octopus during a summer job

Student Life

Photo Essay: Terriers on Their Summer Internships, Jobs

September 3, 2025

Photo: A picture of students doing service and pulling up weeds from the woods. They are wearing matching blue shirts and protective gloves

Community Service

FYSOP Looks to Expand the Horizons of Incoming First-Years

August 27, 2024

Photo: Jason Campbell-Foster, a white man with gray hair and a graying beard, stands with students outside with a blue t-shirt. He is smiling and standing with his hands on his hips.

DEAN OF STUDENTS

Dean of Students Jason Campbell-Foster Is Rarely at His Desk. And That’s How He Likes It

September 14, 2023

Photo: Four people, three college students and their advisor, sit at a round, wooden table. They work and look at individual laptop screens as they smile and collaborate.

FYSOP 2023

Preparing to Welcome Incoming First-Years to Revamped FYSOP

August 29, 2023

Photo of First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) participants Ananya Gupta (CAS’25), center, and Allie Richter (COM’25) right, working together to mount paper on the walls for use as bulletin boards at Mather Elementary in Dorchester.

Student Life

FYSOP Returns in Person after Two Years of Virtual or Hybrid Programming

August 23, 2022

Photo of Jacob Nesson (left) talking with Sam Perez (CAS 25) about the First Year Student Outreach Project. A young man in a black tee and khaki shorts talks to a young woman sitting in a chair in front of him. Two other young woman can be seen chatting behind them. Theyre all in a small office space.

FYSOP

Enrollment Now Open for 2022 First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP)

July 6, 2022

Photo of Giancarlo Sirio (CAS’22), who wears a hunter green shirt and a paper face mask, with his arms crossed, enjoying himself as he participates in a team-building exercise during a FYSOP staff leader training workshop on the BU Beach. Other participants are seen around him.

Student Life

FYSOP 2021 Kicks Off, Offering Both In-Person and Remote Service Opportunities to New Students

August 20, 2021

Graphic that reads "FYSOP" on a light green background in purple letters with floral design on the sides.

Student Life

FYSOP Goes Virtual This Year

August 7, 2020

FYSOP leaders pack up paper lanterns

FYSOP

FYSOP Celebrates 30th Anniversary

August 26, 2019

A portrait of Erin Edwards

Obituaries

Posse Scholar, COM Junior Remembered for Her Energy and Her Empathy

August 22, 2019

FYSOP volunteers

Community Service

FYSOP 29 Launches Today

August 27, 2018

Community Service

Tweets from #FYSOP2017 Volunteers

August 30, 2017

FYSOP volunteers Olenka Tytla (SED’20) (foreground) and Alex Reilly (SED’20) cleaned and weeded at Dorchester’s Mather Elementary School playground.

FYSOP

FYSOP Marks 28th Year with Some Changes

August 28, 2017

Boston University First Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) 27

FYSOP

Tweets from FYSOP Volunteers

August 30, 2016

Jack Schatten (Questrom'19), left, and Drew Faria (CAS'19)pull weeds at Dorchester's Nightingale Community Garden

University News

FYSOP Kicks Off Today

August 29, 2016

First Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) volunteers do some compost work at Nightingale Community

Community Service

Tweet Your FYSOP Experience

August 25, 2015

No Parking sign during Boston University Charles River Campus Fall Semester Move-in

Matriculation

Maneuvering Move-in Week

August 24, 2015

Boston University FYSOP 26

In the City

FYSOP-ers Descend on Campus, and Boston

August 24, 2015

Boston University First Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) volunteers doing compost work at Nightingale Community Garden

FYSOP

Volunteer for FYSOP, Do Good around the City

June 11, 2015

Boston University BU, First Year Student Outreach Project FYSOP, volunteer

Volunteer

Tweet Your FYSOP Experience

August 26, 2014

Tweet Your FYSOP Experience