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Photo: Alexis Fearing (GMS’23), programming and communications graduate assistant, foreground, and Allison Reilly, assistant director, behind Fearing, put some finishing touching on the ClubQ memorial on display in their LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff office Dec 16. A young tan woman wearing a large red puffer coat arranges well-wishes, cards, and photos on table covered with a white table cloth.

BU LGBTQIA+ Center’s Club Q Memorial

Photo: Sargent College Dean Chris Moore (center) stands in a room filled with red and white balloons to celebrate the opening of the new clinical simulation rooms. He stands in front of a dark blue wall with silver letters that read "Sargent College Center for Clinical Simulation" as well as a tv screen showing a white slide that reads the same. A small group of people stand on either side of him as they look on as he smiles and speaks.

Ribbon Cutting for Sargent’s Center for Simulated Clinical Experience

Photo: Workers install the massive bronze statue, "The Embrace" on December 6, 2022. A work works from a lowered crane on the large left hand that seems to be holding up a large bronze stone. The entire sculpture looks like two bronze hands grasping and holding up a large rock or bundle.

MLK Memorial on Boston Common

Photo: Grace Knoop (COM ’23), co-president of BU Figure Skating, performs a solo number during the club’s Holiday Spectacular. A young white woman with red-ginger hair, glides along an ice rink. She wears a green skating dress and smiles as she holds one of her legs back behind her and glides forward.

BU Figure Skating Club Holiday Spectacular

Photo: Casey Crawford, a young white person with a short hair cut and wearing a white longsleeved shirt, places one of the last few ornaments on a large fir tree before choir rehearsal starts during the annual “Hanging of the Greens” on December 8 at Marsh Chapel.

2022 Hanging of the Greens

Photo: Rebecca Lawrence (CAS’23), left, and Javaughn Headley (CAS’23) enjoy The Zen Zone at the Wellbeing Experience in the GSU Ballroom Dec 8. A tan person with curly hair relaxes in a dark purple, star-studded beanbag next to a Black young man wearing a red sweater relaxing on a similar patterned bean bag. A screen behind them plays a relaxing scene as they settle in a large tent with dimmed lighting and fairly lights hanging from the ceiling.

The Wellbeing Experience

Photo: Blanca Isabella (CFA'24) as Ceci and Hampton Richards (CFA'24) as Michelle in the OTP play. A young Latina woman wearing a yellow tshirt and jeans stands to the left of a taller, Black young woman wearing a black and white polka dot blouse and jeans. Both stand arm in arm as they look off stage on set designed as a bedroom.

OTP: A High School Class President and a Teenage Obama?

Photo: Leqing Wang (CFA’25), grand winner of the Bach Competition 2022, performs “Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001” by Johann Sebastian Bach at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts Concert Hall on November 29. A young, tan Asian woman wearing a strappy black dress, plays a violin on stage. She looks concentrated as she holds the instrument.

2022 Bach Competition Grand Winner

Photo: Jisu Lee (Wheelock’26), left, and Caitlyn Kyong (COM’26), right, decorate custom snow globes at the “Crafts & Chats” event within the Howard Thurman Center on the evening of November 30. Two young Asian women hold clear globes in their hands, as they laugh, paint, and decorate them.

A Winter Wonderland of Snowflakes

Photo: At West Dining Hall, Toby Makoyawo (CAS’25), left, enjoys a turkey dinner and good company with friends Jada Smith (CAS’26), at left, and Matthew Spicer (CAS’25), not pictured, and Ijeoma Ezechukwa (CAS’26). On various plates around the table are the traditional Thanksgiving meal complete with turkey, local mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. A young black man wearing a black durag and black and grey hoodie laughs with cellphone in hand as a young Black woman to his left, wearing a red BU track and field hoodie, leans back with laughter.

Friendsgiving, BU-Style

Photo: Emily Feng (CAS ’23) is greeted by BU parent Kristin White’s dog Allie, a female 6-year-old hound mix. A dog sniffs at the face of a sitting young woman who smiles widely and scrunches her face.

It’s a Dog’s Life

Photo: VP of Trans Listening Circle Lena Broach (CFA’25), left, and President of Trans Listening Circle Felix Wheeler (COM’23) paint the rock in the colors of the transgender flag after placing flags on Alpert Mall Nov 18 to honor the lives of trans and gender-diverse people reported murdered worldwide in the past twelve months. Two young women wearing blue, puffy coats paint a rock. Behind them, small, transgender flags are lined and placed into the lawn.

2022 Transgender Day of Remembrance

Photo: Fiona Schicho (School of Social Work ’25) blows a kiss after walking down the runway during the fashion show at the Professional Clothing Closet’s Nov. 16 event. A young white woman wearing a bright yellow blazer and navy, knee length skirt, poses and blows a kiss in the middle of a fashion runway lined with red carpet. The audience sits on either side of said runway.

A Fashion First

Photo: Graduate student, Yolanda He Yang (CFA 24) works on a sculpture at CFA on November 7, 2022. photo shows a young Asian person through a small crack. Light shines in from a window behind them and highlights the thread work they do on their sculpture.

Working in the Dark

Photo: Perkins Award Ceremony for 2020 and 2021 winners held on November 10, 2022 in the Metcalf Trustee Ballroom. Perkins award winners from left: Lena Landaverde, Aline Hillman, Kimberly Crosta, Ridiane Denis, and Colin D. Riley. Each person holds up a gold plated plaque in front of a grey stage.

Perkins Award Winners from 2020 and 2021 Honored

Photo: Fall stock photo of Boston University campus. Scene shows people hanging out and studying outside on a lawn. Yellow, red, and orange leaves fill the trees and litter the ground.

An Autumn Stunner

Photo: Republican Rep.-elect Jen Kiggans celebrates at her election party in Virginia Beach, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, after she defeated Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. A white woman with dirty blonde hair tied back is shown cheering with arms raised in front of a blurred American flag.

Alum a New US Congresswoman

Photo: Students of the CFA TH 331 Movement 3 class climb and walk around the Booth Theatre sign on Commonwealth Ave on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. A group of students dressed in various clown outfits and red noses goof and play around a large sign letters that read "BOOTH".

Send in the Clowns

Photo: A group of Black students are shown mid-dance as they dance to the electric slide.

Charcoal Anniversary Exhibition Showcase

Photo: Craig Espenhain of BU Campus Planning and Operations walks through rows of snowblowers on October 19, 2022. A man in a navy blue sweat suit walks amongst rows of bright orange snowblowers.

Like the Boy Scouts, BU Aims to Be Prepared