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Photo of Tony Gluskin (COM'23) plays the mini golf at the Sustainability Festival on Marsh Plaza. A young man wearing a light pink hoodie, grey sweats, and black backpack puts on a small mini gold course. Sustainability stands featuring bike safety stands sit behind him.

Sustainability Festival—Better Late Than Never

Newbury Center Welcomes Special Guests

Umbrellas add a touch of color to a dreary Thursday, as Terriers wend their way past the Kilachand Center for Life Sciences & Engineering. Rain dumped nearly an inch on Boston, and Friday is expected to be much cooler, with a high of only 60. Could be fall has arrived. September 22 photo by Cydney Scott. Students walk in front of a large modern building with umbrellas in rainy weather

Got Rain?

Photo: Amy Fam (CAS'25), (from left), and Lara Werneck (CAS'23) picking carrots and celery to purchase at the Farmer's Market on GSU Plaza. Two young women look at and hold vegetables on a table stand on a sunny day.

Fresh Food (and More) for Fall

Photo: Alessandro Sitaras (CAS’24), from left, Portia Lee (CAS’24), Miguel Feliciano (CAS’26), and Poppy Livingstone (CAS’26) all sit on a rugged floor and laugh and chat together. Empty paper plates lay in front of them.

Thurman Center LGBTQIA+ Welcome Reception

Photo: A young, masked woman crouches and pets three brown baby goats gathered around her. One baby goat nibbles at her black skirt. Other masked students can be seen gathered around, petting the goats as well.

A Meet and Greet—with Baby Animals?

Photo: Rena Nurhussien (CAS’26), left, and Amira Badruddin (ENG’26) enjoy their special meal during Lobster Night at Warren Towers. A young woman on the left wearing a burgundy head scarf holds up a lobster excitedly as a young woman on the right wearing a navy headscarf laughs and holds her own lobster.

A New School Year Tradition: Lobster Night

Photo of Students from G-Power, a BU K-Pop Dance Company presenting their hip-pop dance during the Student Showcase at Tsai Performance Center. A group of AAPI women on stage raise their hands over their heads to their right; they wear jeans, jean skirts, and crop tops. The heads of audience members are seen blurred in the foreground.

WOW: K-Pop from G-Power

Photo of three young women of color taking a selfie during the Neon event during weeks of welcome. At left, Michelle Tian (COM'23), wears a white shirt, striped pants, and glowstick bracelets and holds out her phone to take the selfie. Her friends Jessica Lam (COM'24) and Anjali Zafiia (COM'23), to the right, sit behind her. One of the young women holds a teddy bear. A fluffy white substance is seen in the foreground; other students are seen sitting on the ground in the background.

Neon Night: WOW

Wide photo of Nickerson field during the annual SPLASH event. Students walk across the field to look at the tables set up by BU student clubs. STUVII is seen in the background; the sky is blue and clear.

WOW Means Splash

Photo of a group of students putting soil into small clay pots at a Weeks of Welcome event. At center, a young AAPI woman with black hair pulled back ads soil to a small clay pot. She smiles and wears a white shirt. The photo is taken at the level of the table, sort of looking up at the activity participants. Legs of our participants are seen blurred in the foreground.

Greening of the Dorms

Photo: Jessica Lam (COM'24), (left), Queena Lau (CAS'24), Cat Keane (CAS'25), and Shumita Littlefield (CAS'24) talk and laugh while enjoying their dinner at BU Beach food fest. Two Asian women, a black woman with long braids, and two white women laugh as they hold plates of food and eat during dusk.

A Weeks of Welcome Favorite

Photo of a diverse group of students cheering during the matriculation event in Agganis Arena. Almost all of them wear red BU tshirts, with either the words "Boston University" or an image of a terrier on them. Many also hold papers in their hands.

Welcome, Class of 2026

Photo of FYSOP participants Karrington Riley, (CAS’26), left, and Silvana Spagnuolo (COM’26) cleaning up donated shoes before sorting them by size at Cradles to Crayons in Newton. A young black woman on the left smiles as she cleans shoes across from a young white man (right) doing the same.

FYSOP: First-Years Helping Others

Photo of Sitarah Lakhani posing in front of her mural. A young Brown woman with dark hair and blonde highlights wearing a white dress with red sash poses in front of a large mural made up pf various women of different ethnicities and styles on the side of a large brick building.

Ribbon-Cutting Held for BU Academy Mural

Photo of new women’s soccer coach Casey Brown (COM’10) with the rest of the women's team at a welcome event for Brown. The team stands in three throws, they wear red, white and gray 'Terrier Soccer' sweatshirt written in red font, the front row is crouched. They all gather at the grotto near Nickerson Field. The assistant coaches are seen in gray at right. The group is mostly White, with a few women of color.

New Era for Women’s Soccer

Photo of Mary Skipper, Boston Public Schools' incoming superintendent talks to Mike Sabin, (left), Boston Public School's director of school transformation and Efrain Toledano, region 6 school superintendent. Skipper is a White woman, with short blondeish hair and dangling earrings; she wears a red shirt with white flowers. She leans over to speak to Sabin and Toledano who wear blue suit jackets and blue button-downs and sit in blue lecture hall seats.

Boston Public Schools Leadership Institute

Photo of Melissa Lee (Questrom’23), left, and Rex Wang (Questrom’23) taking on their summer remote internships in the comfort of LAW’s McCausland Commons August 4. Both are young AAPI people and sit in red chairs with their laptops balanced on their laps. The chairs are situated at the end of a window-ed hallway looking out onto trees on BU beach. Their backpacks are seen on the ground.

Internship with a View

Photo of BU Provost Jean Morrison (center, left) shaking hands with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (light blue blazer, at right) during an event hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the new CHIPS and Science Act. Also pictured are John Shaw (left), Vice Provost for Research, Harvard University, Steven F. Karel, Vice Provost for Research, Brandeis University, and Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Mass. A banner at the back of the room reads "Massachusetts Institute of Technology." All are seated at a table with a blue tablecloth.

Provost Jean Morrison Weighs in on CHIPS and Science Act

Photo of L O’Neil, age 14, seated criss-cross apple sauce at left, and Phi Gold, 14, kneeling, during the Wheelock Family Theater Summer Vacation Program on the Fenway Campus Aug 5. Phi stretches across some blades of grass which they have been painting for the swamp scene for Shrek the Musical and gives a high five to a friend with blonde hair who is seen at left with their hand extended. O'Neil wears a a plaid button down over a t-shirt and a facemask; they have short brown hair. Phi has greenish yellow hair and wears a shirt that says "Camberville Hot Dog Crawl" with a icons of a ketchup and mustard bottle holding a hot dog. They paint on a gray surface or mat on the floor, and other props are seen in the background of what could be a classroom.

Preparing for Wheelock’s Shrek