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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

Photo of Alex Barnes (CAS 24, a young person with long brown hair and an undercut, who wears a black jacket with the BU Logo, interacting with one of the objects hanging from a wooden structure. The structure is part of a student public art project titled "Home" by Kabita Das (CFA'20) on Monday, April 4, 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

Photo of a young white woman with a light blue t shirt climbing on the rock climbing wall at fitrec. The wall is brownish gray and is a bit overhung; it's covered in colorful holds.

“Something there is that does not love a wall”

Photo of Kathryn Larkin (CAS’25), wearing a white sweater with colored strips and a face mask, looking intently at a cookie they're adding red frosting too. A container of ice cream is seen in the foreground and other students milling about are in the background.

Did Someone Say Cookies?

Photo of the butterfly staircase being installed in the new data sciences building. Two large staircase connect at a curved center, the sides of the staircase are maroon and constructed from large steel beams. Above and below the staircase, the construction equipment and the skeleton of the building under construction are seen.

Butterfly Staircase

Photo of renowned autism advocate and scientist Temple Grandin, third from left, pausing during a tour at Sargent College to sign autographs for Professor Helen Barbas, from left, associate professor Basilis Zikopoulos, and Post-Doctoral fellow Dr. Xuefeng Liu March 18. Grandin wears a black button down shirt with a teal and pink embroidered floral design and has short white hair. Barbas and Liu wear masks. They all smile and look at Grandin as she signs the book.

Temple Grandin Tours Sargent College

Photo of Alexis Michelle, of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame, doing a split in a very sparkly jumpsuit as a student sitting next to the stage shouts and reacts in excitement

First-Ever Purim Drag Show

Aerial photo of BU and non-BU students celebrating Holi on Cummington Mall Rd on March 20 in-person for the first time in three years. Most young people in the crowd wear white or light colored shirts, and a cloud of orange dust rises in the air. The people are covered with an array of bright colors and look joyful as they talk with their friends.

In-Person Holi Celebration Returns

Photo of Brandon Bell, a young man with dark hair and bear who wears a gray sweater, who works for Polestar Boston talking about electric vehicles with a group of four other men who stand and listen with coffees in their hands, on Metcalf Plaza. Tents and other passersby are seen behind them.

Electric Vehicle Expo

Photo of the BU Treblemakers performing on stage at Berklee College of music as part of the ICCA, or collegiate international acapella competition. Each member extends their left hand up and holds a microphone to their mouth. They are dressed in black and white and they are lit by the stage lights.

BU Treblemakers, Still Feeling

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