News and College Life

College students hugging during homecoming parade

Student jumping during Smokey's Howl performance

A student sprays a primer on a car part during an automotive class.

Students stand on their partners' shoulders while participating in the Tower of Cans. Participating student organizations were asked to collect cans and compete to build the tallest tower out of their donations.

Fraternity members compete in a hotdog eating contest during the first-ever Homecoming Hotdog-eating Relay Race

Bearcats enrolled in the School of Agricultural Sciences prepare livestock for the annual Livestock Show at the Agricultural Learning Center Nov. 13, 2024.

Dancers try to stay warm as they wait to take to the stage in Central Park during the Jingle Bell Holiday celebration in downtown.

The 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Charles W. Brown Planetarium was held on Nov 18, 2024.

Ethan Burd climbs a ladder to his the first level of his two-story treehouse at his home in Austin, Texas.

Virginia Allen, age 93, recently visited campus and shared her story as the last surviving  black nurse who worked in Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, N.Y. treating turburculosis patients. Recruited at age 16, Ms. Allen moved from Detroit to New York in 1947 to work at Sea View. The black nurses there, recruited from around the country, would become known as trailblazing Black Angels who contributed to developing the first successful cure  for TB. During her tour of the university's nursing department, Ms. Allen was fascinated with the realistic medical manikins, including this particular pediatric patient who was audibly wheezing.