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Scene at BU

Photo of Bob Gilmartin of Facilities Management & Operations spreading mulch around the flowers in front of the granite Boston University at Kenmore on Tuesday, May 11, 2022. A blue bucket is seen in the foreground. Gilmartin wears a red and white cap, blue BU sweatshirt, jeans and gloves as he spreads the mulch with a wooden-handled tool.

Prepping for May’s Big Day

Photo of two construction workers at the edge of one of the floors of the Center for Computing and Data Science. The men wear hard hats and help lower what looks to be a piece of glass that has been raised by a crane. Behind them, the COM lawn and Boston city skyline is seen.

Getting There

Photo of a person with a blue jacket riding a black bike down Cummington Mall Road in late April 2022. The trees along the road have blossomed with small white flowers. The sky is bright blue.

Spring’s Arrival

Photo Michelle Wu, right, and Bob Brown, left, as well as other folks, wearing bright yellow vests and white hard hats. Bob Brown is gesturing with his right hand as Michelle Wu looks up at presumably construction happening at the Data Sciences Center. Boxes and construction materials are seen behind them.

Mayor Wu Visits BU Data Sciences Building

Wide shot of a group of people gathered on Marsh Plaza. At left and right of the steps, large blue and yellow Ukraine flags fly. Some members of the group are masked, many hold small Ukrainian flags. It's an overcast day.

Vigil for Ukraine

Photo of Jordana Kasaato (ENG’23), left, and Kendall Lowe (CAS’22) try their hand at a fishing game on the COM lawn during the BU Brazilian Association’s Junina Party in honor of the annual Festas Juninas April 30, which in Brazil runs throughout June. Kasaato, a young Black woman with long braids, who wears a black jacket and jeans, laughs as her fishing line gets tangled with Lowe's. Lowe is a young Black woman with long braised who wears a black sweater and amber pants. She smiles as she holds up her fishing rod. The pair are sitting on lawn chairs and fishing from a large plastic bin filled with water. Other students on the COM lawn can be seen behind them, it's a sunny spring day.

BU Brazilian Association’s Festa Junina

Photo of Amya Liburd (CAS’24), a brown-skinned woman with long, curly brown hair wearing a blue sweatshirt, and sitting in a gray lawn chair as she reads for her Women’s American History course on BU Beach April 20 under a cherry blossom tree in bloom. The tree has small pink and white flowers. The arches in Marsh Plaza are seen behind her.

BU Beach in Bloom

Photo of Max Rosen (Sargent’23) reading the names of victims of the Holocaust in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) April 28 in Marsh Plaza. Rosen has short curly hair, wears a gray jacket, and speaks into a microphone a top a wooden podium. In the foreground, candles and small rocks are seen on a table with a red table cloth. In background, the sky is bright blue with a few clouds.

We Will Never Forget

Photo of Gulfiya Nassyrova (LAW’22), left, and her son Nariman Temirbekov (LAW’22) beginning to study for a course on security transactions March 3 at LAW. Gulfiya is a middle-aged woman with light skin and shoulder-length brown hair and wears a face mask. She points to a line in a text book and has her laptop open in front of her. Nariman is a young man with short dark brown hair and transition glasses. He wears a gray sweatshirt and sits in front of a laptop.

A Family Affair

4 dancers contort their bodies on stage for Visions 2022

Visions 2022

Photo of the BU Women's Golf team posing with the Patriot League trophy. From left, Kristen Min Ju Kim, Flair Kuan, Hanako Kawasaki, Alice Fan, Christy Chen, and Victoria Takai all stand and kneel around the trophy, each using one or two arms to touch and hold it up in the center of themselves, as they hold up a large silver trophy with a large wooden base.

Patriot League Golf Champs x 3

Photo of SARP student ambassador Hannah Zobair, a young white woman with long brown hair and wearing a black sweatshirt, holding a large blue stencil to a sidewalk and spraying a can of light blue paint onto it on a sunny day. Three other young women stand behind her with similar stencils as they survey the ground.

“I Will Walk with You”

Photo of Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of BU Law school (at left), and Tanisha Sullivan, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP (right) is taking photos in a 360 photo booth on the 52nd Annual Conference and Awards Gala on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 1 Silver Way. Onwuachi-Willig wears a black floral dress and extends her hands out in surprise, Sullivan, in pearls, a white dress and leather jacket, smiles, as the photo booth snaps a photo. Another woman is seen behind them.

BU Black Law Students Association Celebration

Photo of Heeseung “Chelsea” Han (CFA’23), left, posing with her piece “Back to Me” while her friend Mina Chung (CFA’23) snaps a photo, right foreground, during the during the biannual art exhibit at Sloane House April 11. Han holds a pen and pretends to draw on her piece, which is an image of a person painting a boston skyline painting a boston skyline. The house has ornate, gold and white floral wallpaper. Han is a young, Asian woman with long dark hair and wears a white sweater and jeans.

Spring 2022 Art@ Sloane

Photo of students in Boston University Global China Connection who created the "Largest LEGO® Brick Word". The lego word is on a table in front of the group and res "Terriers by BUGCC" in black and red on a gray background. The students wear face masks and some hold up paper certificates.

BUGCC Breaks a Guinness World Record

Photo of Wendell Nunes (CAS’23) catching a beach ball with questions written on it during an ice breaker activity at the Multicultural Welcome Weekend. Nunes is a brown-skinned young man who wears a white hat with headphones over it. A diverse group of students stand in a circle to his left and right.

Admissions Multicultural Welcome Weekend

Photo of Katherine Schaber (CFA'22), left as Amelia and Caroline Emily Calkins (right) as Fran in Beasts by Cayenne Douglass (GRS'21). Schaber wears a long floral skirt, teal shirt and white sweater; she sits in what appears to be a meditative position, her eyes close, hands extended at her sides and her legs spread. She is a white woman with long blonde hair. Calkins wears black jeans and a pink sweater and also sits on the floor of what appears to be a living room. She looks at Schaber.

Beasts at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

Photo of a person in a green winter hat and poofy jacket showing their phone to a young white woman with dirty blonde hair wearing a red jacket. She stands behind a table next to white man in a black rip up.

Giving Day 2022

Home, on the BU Beach

Group photo of BU's figure skating team celebrating, many with their hands extended, in a huddle, with one student at center front holding a silver trophy. The group, mostly girls, with a few men in back, are dressed in the glittery figure skating outfits and wear white skates as the celebrate on the ice.

National Champions—Times 4