News and College Life

A LGBT student celebrates during 2019 Winter Commencement.

Alyssa Arndt's family surprised her with matching shirts, signs and cheers as she walked during commencement.  

A student ponders the right word as he reads for Megan Groth, sophomore in Speech-Language Pathologist. She reads to first graders at Saratoga Elementary school as part of the America Reads / America Counts project. Everyone should spend an hour in a first grade class to fully appreciate teachers.  Toward the end of the hour, the kids ignored me and the group parted like the Red Sea into a perfect composition.

Brandon Mars, sophomore in horticulture from Muskego, WI, sorts by size the poinsettias to be sold at the annual Horticulture Club sale. 

A student surveys the newly illuminated light display around Mirror Lake in the rain during Light Up the Lake.

Drum Major Morgan Davis shows her baton to an elementary school student during Operation Warm at UPREP Charter School. Davis performed for students after they received free coats at the distribution event.

An Office of Student Life volunteer helps an elementary school student try on a coat during OperatIon Warm. All of the students at UPREP Charter School were provided a free coat during the distribution event.

Students celebrate on an inflatable trampoline after a participant, left, successfully reaches that aquatic obstacle course checkpoint during the WIPEOUT! event.

A participant invites water cannon spray while pausing during her run through an aquatic obstacle course.  The WIPEOUT! event provided students with an opportunity to take a unique study break two days before the start of finals.

Nurses embody the compassionate care that sets the standard at VUMC.