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Photo: A young blonde man reads to small children for a BU event. A kid hangs off his lap

A Popular Holiday Tradition

Photo: A scene on stage during the musical "Annie" at the Wheelock Family Theatre

Annie—a Perennial Favorite

Photo: Left to right) Lottie Levine (CAS 29), Leo Solomon (CAS 29) and Shayna Kadish (Wheelock 29) light menorahs at Hillel House on the second night of Hanukkah

2025 Hanukkah Lighting at BU Hillel

Photo: Siri Hodgins (SAR’26) (left) performs a 90 second puppet show as part of her and her team’s poster presentation

Exploring World Cultures Through Puppetry Arts

Photo: The inside of Marsh Chapel with a choir singing in red robes at the front

A Beloved Tradition: Marsh Chapel’s Service of Lessons and Carols

Photo: At Marsh Plaza, Elie Wiesel, right, assists Rabbi Joseph Polak, canter, with the Grand Menorah Lighting

Flashback Friday: December 2010 Grand Menorah Lighting

Photo: Two performers on a stage

2025’s Aurora Borealis: A Festival of Light and Dance

Photo: Bean, BU's comfort dog, being pet by BU students during a Coffee with a Cop event

What’s the Biggest Draw of BU’s Coffee with a Cop?

Photo: A reception at Wheelock Family Theater's "Magic in the Wings" 45th Anniversary event with many people gathered

Magic in the Wings: A Wheelock Family Theatre Celebration

Photo: BU students making a gingebread house

Annual Holiday Gingerbread House Competition

1951 - Boston, Massachusetts P.A.L. / X-Mas Program. Students in Christmas shows. Santa with stocking selling them for 35 cents. 1951. Photo by Boston University Photography

Flashback Friday: A BU Christmas, 1951 Style

Photo: Top down view of students studying

What’s Not to Love?

Photo: Bean, BU's comfort dog, celebrates her second birthday on campus. Bean, a fluffy white retriever, wears a blue dress as her tongue lolls out of her mouth,

Happy Birthday, Bean

Photo: Four BU students posing on a mountain during a hike

Core’s Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Middlesex Fells Hike

Photo: The BU Dance Theater Group on stage at a dress rehearsal for a show doing choreography in a line with pink lighting on the stage

Origins 2025, a Fall Tradition

Photo: Two men on wooden chairs speaking in front of a crowd. On the right is award-winning filmmaker Josh Safdie (COM’07)

Josh Safdie: Journey from BU Student Filmmaker to Hollywood Director

Photo: A girl sitting at a table at an art market that sells key chains drawing on an iPad

BU Fall Arts Market: Celebrating Creativity, Music, Artistic Exchange

Photo: A woman writing on a whiteboard that says "How do you give thanks?" with many different ways to say "Thank You" in other languages

Saying Thank You (in Several Languages)

Wild Turkey tries to withdraw some quick cash. Better than leaving a deposit!. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

Scoping the Scene

Flowers for Mrs. Harris