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Community Service

Students on an Alternative Spring Break trip sit in the back of a pick up truck

Alternative Service Breaks

Travel, Explore, and Volunteer with Alternative Service Breaks This Spring

February 12, 2020

Two First Year Outreach Project (FYSOP) make paper lanterns during FYSOP week at Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain for their paper lantern festival.

Community Service

Students Gave, Too—Their Way

October 23, 2019

Black and White portrait of Rev. Mariama White-Hammond at the New Roots AME church where she pastors.

Religion & Activism

Building Bridges Between the Environmental and Racial Justice Movements in Boston

October 15, 2019

View of the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences building through the sculpture Counterpoint by Russell Jacques located on BU Beach.

Campaign for BU

Numbers Tell the Story

September 17, 2019

Student Voices

Meet the Class of 2023: Wesley Perler

September 3, 2019

portrait of Julia Lindsay

Alumni

Running to Help Others

April 12, 2019

Volunteers on the ASB Tennessee trip on a wheelchair ramp they built. Photo courtesy of Anthony Dongfack

Travel

Spring Break with a Purpose

March 8, 2019

Swipes for Boston, a BU Student Government initiative, delivers donated food and Rhetty-to-Go meals to homeless people around the city.

Dining Services

Feeding Boston’s Homeless—One Swipe at a Time

March 6, 2019

A City of Boston volunteer hugs a homeless person during the annual Boston Homeless Census.

Boston

Medical Campus Volunteers Brave Polar Vortex to Help Boston’s Homeless

February 4, 2019

FYSOP volunteers

University News

FYSOP 29 Launches Today

August 27, 2018

Thomas M. Menino Scholars and Community Service Award grantees

Admissions

BU Awards Scholarships to Boston Public High School Grads

June 25, 2018

A row of Tiny Homes in Detroit

Education & Social Service

The Tiny Home Evangelist

March 27, 2018

Science & Technology

Celebration of Innovation on Campus and Off Slated for April

March 19, 2018

Photography

Student Volunteers Share ASB Experiences on Instagram

March 14, 2018

Volunteer

Tweets from #FYSOP2017 Volunteers

August 30, 2017

FYSOP volunteers Olenka Tytla (SED’20) (foreground) and Alex Reilly (SED’20) cleaned and weeded at Dorchester’s Mather Elementary School playground.

University News

FYSOP Marks 28th Year with Some Changes

August 28, 2017

Dana Dunwoody with youth reaching for mid-air disc

Community Service

SED Student Helps Bring Israeli, Palestinian Youth Together

July 24, 2017

Mayor Walsh and Robert A. Brown with BPS scholars

Accolades

Scholarships for 65 Boston High School Graduates

June 15, 2017

Class Gift cochairs Louis Vitti and Victoria Olakojo. The Class Gift committee is sponsoring a challenge: clubs and organizations can compete for matching funds based on who has the most student donors by the end of Giving Day.

Alumni

Fourth Annual Giving Day Is Today

April 4, 2017

Young-chun Cho (clockwise from top left) his wife, Soojeong Kim, and their daughter Hyunjoo Cho work with an orphan from Dream Tree Village at a Global Days of Service event last year.

University News

BU Global Days of Service: Volunteer Opportunities for Everyone

April 4, 2017

BU Global Days of Service: Volunteer Opportunities for Everyone