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Marissa Heimes, a graduate in Nutritional Science and Dietetics, hugs a friend following commencement. Undergraduate Commencement in Pinnacle Bank Arena. 

The university gonfolon precedes the platform party through the graduates seated in the arena. 

Senior art students open their studios to the campus community for an evening gathering. Students share their ongoing projects with visitors while enjoying some food and music.

Sunshine Pugh ’24, left, Sophie George ’24, right, and Alexa Booker ’24, back, examine classmate Zoey Kolligian’s ceramic dragons during the semester-end critique in Prof. Greg Bailey’s Sculpture for a Small Planet, ART 226, course Thursday, December 15, 2022 in the Sculpture Studio in Cummings Art Center. The studio class has students work with sustainable and reused materials to make sculptures and functional pieces. The work incorporates the interconnected aspects of the planet Earth either explicitly or implicitly.

The clinical team transfers an anesthetized red wolf after getting radiographs of the wolf's hips.

Fourth year veterinary student Sarah Scott-Cruz works to clean one of NC State's resident red wolves' teeth before he's transferred to another location in accordance with the Species Survival Plan.

Little girl joining in the fun

Lisa Hale of Z Total Body Fitness donated her time to lead students in a lively Zumba routine on Nov. 19, 2022. After two years of holding their event in a modified and mostly virtual form, SLU's Dance Marathon organization was able to gather in the Busch Student Center to make a final push in their fundraising efforts, ultimately raising over $100,000 for local pediatric hospital services.