News and College Life

A worker climbs a section of rebar at the Veldman Psychology Clinic on Hill Street.

Dancers perform for perspective students and their families during a campus recruitment event on Feb. 8, 2025.

A student listenings during an Honors class.

Students play pond hockey at University Park during a warmer winter day.

Student Luca Freccia singing “Out There” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame during the Chancellor's Arts Showcase at The Missouri Theatre. It was devastatingly, hauntingly beautiful.

The Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) 4550 class taught by Professor Katie Essing in the Trulaske College of Business. The class is covering Super Bowl advertising in the week prior and after the 2025 Super Bowl.  
We have to get permission to photograph in classes, so usually when tasked with a story inside one, I take the chance of grabbing as many stock images as possible. 

Kinzey, a member of the XXI class, looks at the skull of a chimpanzee at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Africa on Feb 19, 2025. The group traveled to various agricultural productions in Kenya where they were able to compare to how they did agricultural in Oklahoma. 

A member of the Wind Ensemble is reflected in his instrument as he performs in the Hiestand Memorial Concert on Saturday, February 22, 2025. This concert is held annually in support of the Hiestand Music Education Scholarship.

RebelTHON President Cat McCall reacts to the record-breaking $280,424.17 total raised during the annual, student-led dance marathon for Children's of Mississippi, the state's only children's hospital.

Student Jake Epstein assists with the recording of the PBS's Firing Line with Margaret Hoover at the  The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication on February 10th, 2025. The nationally televised news program returned to the University for the second year in a row, again giving students the opportunity to ask on-air questions and work in key positions behind the scenes.