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Community Service

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Things-to-do

Earth Day at BU: Green Thumbs Welcome, Enthusiasm Encouraged

April 3, 2025

Photo: Students carrying bags of weeds as they dispose of them during an Alternative Service Break trip

Alternative Service Breaks

Alternative Service Breaks Program Returns in Full Swing for 2025

March 7, 2025

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Student Life

Meet the Student CEO In Charge of BU’s Saxbys

November 20, 2024

Photo: Aditi Singh, a young woman with black pants and a maroon top, poses in the middle of the doorway to the College of Engineering on BU's campus.

STUDENT LIFE

Introducing BU’s Newest Terriers: Aditi Singh (ENG’28)

September 13, 2024

Photo: This year’s class of Boston Public Schools students earning Thomas M. Menino Scholarships and Community Service Award winners at a reception in the lobby of the Questrom School of Business

Academics

Talent, and Scholarships, Power Boston Public School Students to BU

September 4, 2024

Photo: A picture of students doing service and pulling up weeds from the woods. They are wearing matching blue shirts and protective gloves

Community Service

FYSOP Looks to Expand the Horizons of Incoming First-Years

August 27, 2024

Photo: At the completion of the program, the Brighter Boston team records STOMP performances in the set they built and lit

Theatre

BU’s Booth Theatre Helps Boston Public Schools Students and Grads Set the Stage for Success

August 26, 2024

Photo: A group of volunteers in matching blue t shirts gather to pick up trash on a beach in Hobe Sound Florida

ASB

A Year Since COVID-19 Hiatus Ended, Alternative Service Breaks Program Continues to Strengthen Bonds

March 8, 2024

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Giving

A Chance to Support Students Today during Annual Giving Tuesday

November 27, 2023

Photo: Large overhead shot of 2023's Menino Scholarship and ComCommunity Service Award recipients. Students in business casual attire pose on a large set of stairs together. Also pictured are interim President Ken Freeman.

Accolades

BU Honors 80 Boston Public Schools Scholarship Recipients at Annual Ceremony

September 5, 2023

Photo: Zakariya Hussein, a dark-skinned Somalian young man wearing a black shirt and blue collared lone-sleeved shirt smiles and holds the Somaliland flag above his head. The flag blows behind him, creating a striking portrait.

student profile

Meet BU’s Newest Terriers: Zakariya Hussein

August 30, 2023

Photo: Four people, three college students and their advisor, sit at a round, wooden table. They work and look at individual laptop screens as they smile and collaborate.

FYSOP 2023

Preparing to Welcome Incoming First-Years to Revamped FYSOP

August 29, 2023

Photo: A young asian girl smiles and holds up a metal strip in a college-run program where she investigates more about STEM. She wears a gray hoodie.

STEM

U-Design, the College of Engineering’s Summer Program, Introduces Middle Schoolers to the World of STEM

August 1, 2023

3/11/22 -- Dorchester, MA Christy Li (Questrom’25) weeds in the greenhouse at Victory Programs’ ReVision Urban Farms in Dorchester March 11. Li was there with other volunteers from BU who were participating in a modified, localized Alternative Spring Break for the week. The group helped unroll massive tarps to cover crops, rake columns for growing and weed outside and in the farm’s greenhouse. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Volunteer

Alternative Service Break Trips Return to Normal after Three Years

March 2, 2023

Photo: Aerial photo shows the destruction in Hatay city center, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. A city center is shown with numerous collapsed and crumbling building.

World events

BU Students Raising Money for Earthquake Victims

February 7, 2023

Photo of First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) participants Ananya Gupta (CAS’25), center, and Allie Richter (COM’25) right, working together to mount paper on the walls for use as bulletin boards at Mather Elementary in Dorchester.

Student Life

FYSOP Returns in Person after Two Years of Virtual or Hybrid Programming

August 23, 2022

photo of 2 masked BU students planting vegetables in Warren's rooftop garden on a sunny day

Student Life

Video: Behind the Scenes at Warren Towers Rooftop Mini Garden

October 28, 2021

Photo of Angela Tsai with a white t-shirt with fish on it and black Vans sitting on a black staircase that may be a fire escape. She smiles wide and has long, dark hair.

Student Profile

Meet the Class of 2025: Angela Tsai

September 9, 2021

Photo of Giancarlo Sirio (CAS’22), who wears a hunter green shirt and a paper face mask, with his arms crossed, enjoying himself as he participates in a team-building exercise during a FYSOP staff leader training workshop on the BU Beach. Other participants are seen around him.

Student Life

FYSOP 2021 Kicks Off, Offering Both In-Person and Remote Service Opportunities to New Students

August 20, 2021

A shot of Marsh Plaza including the MLK statue from above

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: January 14 to 18

January 14, 2021

The Weekender: January 14 to 18