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Photo of Allie Richter (COM’25), at center in stripes, with several other FYSOP students, working together to organize workbooks for grades one through five for easy access for teachers at Mather Elementary in Dorchester August 25. Everyone wears a face mask and you can send colorful elementary school decorations on the wall behind them.

Elementary Volunteering, FYSOP-Style

Photo of State Rep Liz Miranda addressing 2021's 400+ FYSOP students on Thursday August 26. She wears a black outfit and a face shield, and gestures as she speaks in a mic she holds at a Boston University podium. Projected behind her is her headshot and name, “Liz Miranda, 5th Suffolk District Representative.”

State Rep. Liz Miranda, 2021 FYSOP Speaker

Photo of SAR clinical associate professor Lee Marinko, at left, in a red and white sweater, and Nikita Chou (SAR’24), center, sits on a physical therapy table, and Dominick Farino (SAR’24), who raises Chou’s arm. Each person wears a face mask. Chou and Farino look towards Marinko as she explains something.

Where Does It Hurt?

Photo of students rolling bright yellow moving bins in opposite directions along Commonwealth Ave on Transition Day Move in on campus August 16, 2021.

What Does This Mean?

Photo of Chris Tavares of BU Facilities Management and Operations watering some flowers. Another facilities worker in blue and black stands in the foreground with a red shovel in his hand.

Tending the Flower Bed

Photo of Lily Rauh in her blue and silver figure skating competition outfit with skates and her first place medal on. She smiles as he stands in front of a black curtain.

Going for Gold

Photo of BU School of Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony on the Talbot Green August 2. In the front row, Austen Mauch, from left, Nisha Mathur, Saaz Mantri, Avni Madhani, and Kendra Lujan stand and receive their white coats. Behind them, staff and/or others receiving their coats are seen. They stand underneath a white tent on a stage on Talbot green.

MED White Coat Ceremony

Photo of Andres Lopez, at right, wearing a white and black striped shirt and black pants, sketches a skeleton that hangs to his left, as part of Drawing 1 class held by CFA. Lopez’s sketch pad rests on a large blue easel, other easels can be seen in the classroom in the background.

Class of One

Photo of three-year-old golden doodle Joy, sitting in the lap of her owner Cora Lu, left, who wears overalls, and works as a campus minister at Navigators, as she chats with Zoe Rice (CGS’22), who holds a drink in her hands, on July 14 on BU Beach.

Doodling on the Beach

Marian Karam (ENG’22) studies for her Organic Chem1 final June 30, in Mugar Library. She draws chemical bonds on a whiteboard. She wears a black face mask, black sweatshirt and has shoulder length hair.

Finals Prep

Photo taken through the glass door of a practice room in which Minyung Suh (CFA 22) practices the cello on Monday, July 19, 2021. The outside hallway is dark. Suh wears a white face mask, blue hoodie and jeans.

Practice=Better

Photo of Collection site specialists Jack Cafferty, left, and Zach Cabrera, both UMass Amherst students, relaxing in the Booth Theater lobby July 20 before heading over to 808 Commonwealth Ave for their shift at the texting site there. The space has large ceilings with glass windows that show the sidewalk and gardens outside; the students recline on the large gray couches in the lobby.

Summertime and the Livin’ Is…

Aerial photo of 7/20/21 members of the BU women’s basketball team, including Riley Childs (COM’22) small forward, from left, Annabelle Larnard (Questrom’23), guard/forward, Emily Esposito (COM’22), guard, and Liz Shean (COM’23), guard, chat on Nickerson Field while working on their summer term class work July 20. The grass is greenish yellow, and there is a row of pink and white flowers in front of them.

Between the Raindrops

Photo taken on BU beach of a bunny in the grass by a bush along the base of Marsh Chapel.

Waiting for Class?

BU student Kylie Graves attends a virtual class while am Golden from J.P. Cronin Construction removes COVID-19 pandemic-related signage at the Boston University George Sherman Union.

A Good Sign

Anna Hohler, Harrison Bane, James Terwilliger, Karen Antman, Sanjay Shetty, and Frank Pomposelli cut a ribbon at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center sympbolizing the start of a 5 year agreement adding St. Elizabeth's as a training hospital for the Boston University School of Medicine.

A New Partnership

Photo of Emil Atz, ENG PhD Candidate ’22, gesturing with his hands and talking with Jacqueline Bachrach (ENG’23), seen at left in profile, about the CuPID (Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector) June 30 in the Walsh Lab in Photonics. Both are on the team which built the spacecraft, but Bachrach, who designed software for CuPID remotely, was seeing it for the first time. Both wear blue lab coats, hair bonnets, face masks and gloves. The device is about the size of a small brief case and has what look like mini-solar panels on top of it.

A Different Kind of CuPID

Marsh Plaza and BU Beach viewed form the seventh floor of Photonics. Two people seen in silhouette walk underneath one of the arches, and a shiny, metal sculpture is seen on the BU beach lawn. It is bright, sunny and summery.

Point Counterpoint on the Beach

Kyle (Haoxuan) Yan (ENG’23) sets up an experiment to measure resistance on June 19, 2021. He wears glasses and a blue face mask and works with some wires. The shot is taken from slightly below with some machinery in the foreground.

EPIC Experiment

Photo of central campus at dusk June 29, looking towards Marsh Plaza from across Comm Ave. Cars race by and a small pink cloud is seen in the sky.

Magic on Comm Ave

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