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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

Maria Molteni (CFA’06, center) discusses her immersive work “Counting to Infinity/Sweeping Stars (Contando All’infinito/Stelle Scopa) at the opening for Figure, Character, Sign, an exhibit celebrating more than 20 years of BU’s Venice Studio Arts program. The show, co-curated by Dana Clancy, director of the College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts and Mary Yang, CFA assistant professor of art, graphic design, is on view at A plus A Gallery in Venice, Italy through August 19. Molteni’s work includes her design for the Italian card game Scopa, along with her drawings and traditional Venetian brooms made for the show. The work includes Molteni's own design for the Italian card game Scopa along with her drawings and traditional Venetian brooms made for the show. Among those present at the July 30 Photo by Jay Elle

“Counting to Infinity”

Photo of Raina Wu, 12, left, and Cindy Jin, 12, right, sigh with relief after their robot Marshmallow successfully performs a series of tasks after being programmed by the two along with their teammate Hailey Duan, 12, not pictured, in the U-Design Robo-Alley workshop at Photonics July 21. Jin kneels by the small gray and white robot that almost looks like it was built from legos in classroom; she is a young AAPI girl, and wears a white t-shirt, shorts, and a blue face mask. Wu, at left, smiles and claps her hands; she also sits on the ground. Wu is a young AAPI girl with long brown hair, a blue t-shirt, blue shorts, and sneakers on. Other students in the class are standing in the background, clapping.

U-Design Robo-Alley Workshop

7/27/22 -- Brookline, Massachusetts Madeline Jones (CAS’24) relaxes with an easy read on BU Beach July 27. Jones is on campus taking chemistry courses, so she welcomed the break provided by the classic fantasy novel. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Beach Day

7/27/22 -- Brookline, Massachusetts Gosso Park (ENG’25) works to assemble is 3d printed drone in the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC) July 27. Park is here for the summer taking classes, but said his time spent at EPIC building things is for fun. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Fun at EPIC

Photo of Erin Mahoney (CAS'24) posing during group dance "Daily News." Four students stand below her and hold Erin up as she poses lying flat on her stomach as she holds up a newspaper. The group stands in front of a colorful mural and green trees.

“Daily News”

A mural is being painted outside of BUA gym on July 19, 2022. Recen BUA graduate Sitarah Lakhani conceived of this project in her sophomore year at BUA. The mural is a collaboration between Sitarah, BUA, the BU Arts Initiative, and artist Amanda Hill. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

New Mural on Campus

Caitlin Weimar (COM'24) high fives with London Herdricks after she score a two-point shot. BU Athletics and Government & Community Affairs are hosting a two-day sports camp (July 26 and 27) for approximately 60 kids from Boston Centers for Youth and Families. BU has hosted the camp for a number of years, but had to cancel it the last two years due to the pandemic. The purpose of this two-day long camp is to offer younger kids an oppertunity to use world-class athletic facilities and a chance to visit college campus during the same time. July 26th. Photo by Ziyu (Julian) Zhu (CGS'23)

BU Athletics and Government & Community Affairs Sports Camp

Photo of High school junior Jose Pinto of East Boston painting a still life at CFA’s Visual Arts Summer Institute (VASI) July 12. In the photo, an apple with two slices laying on the cutting board next to it, is seen blurred in the foreground. The apple is red with orange and yellow streaks. Pinto, a young person of color, has short curly hair, and looks intensely at the apple while holding a green paintbrush to the easel in front of him. Other students can be seen painting and doing other art projects in the classroom behind him.

Apple’s-Eye View

Mayor Michelle Wu Visits Striking Starbucks Workers