News and College Life

Zoo-animation on campus during the exam period. Codou laughs at having found her mini lookalike!

The first Saturday of April on campus is reserved for the Annual Glass Guild Blowout event, where a visiting artist comes to work in the campus hot shop and bleachers are set up for spectators to watch them create art. In this image, a student has brought a large "bit" of glass on a blowpipe over to the working artist, who uses his giant tweezers to guide the glass onto the existing piece. In between "bits," the entire piece has to be heated and re-heated, until all of the "bits" are added. At that point, the piece will be broken off the punty and put into a kiln to cool over a period of days.

Members of Company E-2 gather around the Reveille Memorial to support incoming sophomore cadet Trent Ford, who was selected to serve as Mascot Corporal for the 2026-27 academic year on Friday, April 10, 2026, in College Station, TX. 

Students make their way to class in heavy rain at Texas A&M University on Thursday, April 2, 2026, in College Station, TX.

Festival of the Moving Creature on Thursday, April 23, 2026.

Students and community members working at a local community center during Impact TU, our annual community service day. 

Adrian King, of the Ojibwe and Oneida nations, performs during the All Walks of Life Traditional Pow Wow at the Fieldhouse on April 4.

Prison student Roy Calhoun reacts while being congratulated during the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society induction ceremony at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia on April 29. 

The first Saturday of April on campus is reserved for the Annual Glass Guild Blowout event, where a visiting artist comes to work in the campus hot shop and bleachers are set up for spectators to watch them create art. In this image, two assistants (both alums of the University) are pouring molten glass, which is 2200 degrees Fahrenheit, into a sand-casting mold. Each copper ladle weighs 20 lbs and holds ~15lbs of hot glass, which feels even heavier at the end of a five foot pole - not to mention the radiant heat!

Organic Chemistry students take notes and listen to the professor at the Hillside Auditorium.