News and College Life

Construction workers assemble scaffolding in between two elevator shafts of a future dorm.

Students laugh while riding a sled as snow covered campus.

Students work on shaping surfboards in the ASI Craft Center.

Our social media team dresses up Mama Bear for special occasions. Mama Bear, a bronze statue, stands tall in the Alumni Plaza for all to see. This is her Valentine's day costume.

Students give their best efforts to lift kites into their air (with a little help from a running start) in the Junction.

Kelsey Danley (left,) and Keaura Mearday (right,) go the extra mile in festive style for the University's 147th birthday party at the YMCA Plaza. 

An admitted student celebrates committing to go to our University during a Choose SEU event in February.

Biology professor Dr. Drew Crain (center) talks to members of his wildlife photography class about how to find wood frog eggs in a pond in a field in Cades Cove, part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

A view of people walking up and around Enchanted Rock, taken during a Texas Ecology field trip, on Saturday, Feb 1. 2025.

A first-year students shakes a cowbell in celebration of declaring her major at the education department table much to the delight of the faculty during the Major Declaration Fair.