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University of Memphis student enjoys the foam canon at a Student Activity Council event.

Calista Johnson gets into costume backstage during Sense & Sensibility dress rehearsal in the Fine Arts Theatre.

University of Memphis student cooks naan during a community dinner event in the on campus kitchen lab.

Students enrolled in THEA 260: Stage Combat class rehearse a sword-fighting scene weeks before they must perform in front of a Fight Master from the Society of American Fight Directors to be certified as Actor Combatants for specific weapondry. 

Professor Jessica Ross, a Dena'ina Athabascan from Alaska, receives smoke from the popoxcomitl (a ceremonial clay copal incense burner) from Itzel Zagal, an Indigenous anthropologist and culture bearer for the Nahua culture from Tepetlixpa, Mexico, as UAA Alaska Native Studies program's Indigenous Well-Being (AKNS A432) course holds a celebration of healing ceremony at the ANSEP Academy Building.

Professor Lok Kim conducting the spring music concert. This year students and faculty performed Mozart's Requiem in addition to other songs. 

Students in Methods of Material Culture spent time cataloging a collection of historical photographic artifacts such as daguerreotypes, tintypes, stereographs and platinum prints. This student is opening a frame to measure and catalog the artifact.

University of Memphis Army ROTC student tackles the rope climb during morning training. 

Tegan Burri, a first-year environmental and sustainability studies major, rests a hand on a tree as junior biology and natural resources management student Keely Carlson gives a tour of native plants in campus landscaping on the Valley Campus April 14.

A veterinary student shows some young visitors how to milk a cow at the 2026 Open House.