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Photo of student tour guide Dante Pettinato (CAS'25) talking about on-campus residence options while walking on Bay State Road on July 8th. He wears a gray scallycap, a red Boston University polo shirt, and gray shorts. He speaks into a microphone, and the speaker hangs at his side. The shoulders of masked tour attendees are seen in the foreground. The trees and cars parked on Bay State Road are seen behind him.

If It’s a Tour, It Must Be Summer

Photo of students in BU’s Learn to Sail class, including Chelsea Mattioda (LAW’22), left, and Anna Carr, music accompanist at CFA, launching from the boating pavilion for lessons not he Charles River July 12. Mattioda and Carr both wear blue and green life jackets. Carr takes the front of the small, white boat (a Quest) with a bright green-yellow sail, while Mattioda, her hair in a bun, pushes from the back. The graffiti on the old rail track underneath the BU bridge is seen at left; the Charles at right.

One of Summer’s Best Deals

Photo of Starbucks employees picketing outside of the store location on Comm Ave. on July 18, 2022. They are a mix of genders and appear to come from diverse backgrounds; most of them are youngish people. They hold signs that say "Ask me about our unfair labor practices," "Solidarity with starbucks, workers united, on strike!," "Solidarity with Starbucks workers, fight for a living base wage of $25/hr before tips!" The prudential center is seen in the background, as well as the trees lining comm ave and the thurman center.

Striking Workers at Comm Ave Starbucks on BU Campus

Photo of BU, and the surrounding Boston area, taken from the International Space Station. The Charles River is deep dark blue, and the streets and surrounding houses are mostly gray in color. You can see Nickerson Field and the BU bridge in the image.

Friends in High Places

Photo of the Boston skyline as seen from the BU bridge. The reflective blue and reddish Center for Data Science features prominently at right. Bright green summer trees line the Charles River and the sky is a bit overcast. On the river, a small sunfish sailboat with a yellow-green sail is seen. A sea gull is seen flying at the very top of the photo. Cranes and the Prudential building are seen in the background.

Addition to Boston Skyline

photo of a group of students in MET’s Urban Agricultural class sitting in a circle for a lecture before taking a tour through the Fenway Victory Gardens July 7, 2022. The students wear summer-y clothing and sit on a patch of grass just outside of a garden with a wooden and wire fence.

Summertime and the Learning Is Easy

Photo of Micaelah Morrill of innovate@BU, far right, discusses food insecurity on college campuses and solutions to the problem while Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, left, listens during a WH Hunger Summit District Convening in East Boston July 11. Morrill is a white woman with ear-length curly hair and wears a light blue blazer and clasps her hands as she speaks at the microphone. She and six other people sit at a table with a black tablecloth and mics in front of them. Pressley, who is seen slightly blurred, wears a blue, green and white blouse and sits by herself at a table with a blue tablecloth. Photographers can be seen at the other end of the room.

White House Hunger Summit Listening Session

Photo, taken slightly from above, of Kangbo Li (ENG 22) practicing the piano in the GSU on June 29, 2022. Li is seen in silhouette, the piano is almost completely blacked out in shadow. The photo is essentially black and white. The bricks of the GSU reflect a silvery color.

A Different Animal

Photo of Gillian Minarik (CAS’23), left, and Nadifa Abdi (CAS’23), working through a pKa of indicators lab during CHEM201, Quantitative Analytical Chemistry Laboratory June 28 in Metcalf Science Hall. Minarik is a White woman with blonde hair hold appears to be passing Abdi a pipette. Abdi is a young woman of color wearing a black hijab. Both wear white lab coats, clear safety goggles, face masks, and blue gloves. On the table in front of them, beakers of yellow liquid are seen.

An Experimental Science

photo of David King (BUMC-IT staff), from left, Lourdes Amieva (MET’22), Scott Amico (BUMC-IT staff), and Shaw Hutton (CGS’25) on the Pride Month BBQ event held by BU Dean of Students’ Office at GSU on Friday, June 24, 2022. They sit at a black metal outdoor table, which has a large, rainbow pride flag draped over the front half. At left, King is a young White man who wears a gray Pride flag t-shirt and smiles. Amieva has long brown hair, light skin and wears a floral blouse as she smiles. Amico wears a dark short sleeve button down and glasses and smiles. Hutton wears a gradient blue t-shirt and has short, curly brown hair and smiles wide. Other folks eating outside at the GSU can be seen behind them.

Pride BBQ

Kenneth Elmore stands before a group of his colleagues at a going away party at the Hotel Commonwealth on June 22nd, 2022. Elmore is wearing a dark suit and stands at a podium in a well lit ballroom.

Goodbye to Dean of Students Kenn Elmore

Photo of Charlestown High School senior Chakaiya Harrison (center), a Menino Scholar and Charlestown High School’s Class of 2022 school's salutatorian, doing quick dance with her friends, Kaemani Hammonds, left, and Marley Gustama on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 before or after the ceremony. The students pictured are all young people of color and they wear bright blue caps and gowns as they smile and laugh together.

2022 Charlestown H.S. Graduation

Photo of a bright green bobcat machine and a larger, yellow machine with a large roller hanging off an arm, traversing Nickerson field. Large rolls of the astroturf being pulled off can be seen running North-South up the field. In the foreground, the gray bleachers of Nickerson are seen.

Nickerson Gets a Turf-lift

Photo taken from behind students seated at easels as they participate in an Introduction to Drawing class at CFA on June 7, 2022. The are back lit and are seen in silhouette. On a white wall in front of them, large black and white geometric drawings are seen. A white-ish blue box is seen in the left foreground.

Summer Drawing Class

Composite image, three photos of students at BU's Juneteenth celebration. At top, a wide photo of students sitting in the GSU courtyard on picnic blankets and talking to one another. At bottom, left: Sabah Choudhury (CAS’24), at left, and Ekta Karkala (CAS’24) lay on a red and white checkered picnic blanket and smile for the camera. Both are young women of color with long dark hair. At bottom right,

Juneteenth Celebration Cookout

Photo of Young Chan Cho (ENG’24), left, and Jung Won “Ed” Park (ENG’24) during an electrical engineering lab called Thevenin Equivalence Oscilloscopes in Photonics June 15. Cho is a young AAPI man and wears a black t-shirt and holds two wires in his hand as he looks across the table towards Park. Park wears a gray button down with rolled up sleeves and clear glasses and types at his laptop as he looks towards Cho. other students working on the lab can be seen behind him.

Summer Lab

Photo of a diverse of students, most of them women, taking a selfie behind a large blue picnic blanket. The women smile as a student of color holds up her phone to take the selfie. The grass of the park is bright green and British houses and a large tree can be seen in the background.

CGS London Students Visit Bletchley Park

Photo of 4 incoming students playing Uno with a set of giant Uno cards. They sit around a round wooden table as they laugh and hold the giant cards in their hands. A draw pile of cards can be seen in the middle of the table.

Orientation Fun and Games

Photo of a brown falcon flying in the sky. A blurry cityscape can be seen in the distance.

The Fastest Bird on Earth

Photo of Alex Geourntas, Interim City Clerk at City of Boston, swearing in Sandro Galea (left), a Latino man wearing a navy suit and raising his right arm, and Greg Wilmot, a tall Black man wearing a navy turtleneck and black blazer and pants who is also raising his right arm, at Boston City Hall on June 3.

SPH Dean Sandro Galea New Boston Board of Health Chair