News and College Life

Mecca Slaughter joins in and celebrates  with a large group of family and friends in the crowd Saturday morning as she walks off stage .

Teaching assistant Shadi Alhihi aligns a 25-inch telescope to view Jupiter during a recent astronomy open house hosted by the Physics and Astronomy department.

Knobs (freshman cadets) from the Class of 2019 stand at attention and brace for the last time before officially being recognized as part of the Corps of Cadets during Recognition Day activities. 

One cadet studies on the quad in the barracks in preparation for final exams while another runs up the stairs to his room. 

Dancers perform a traditional Mexican number during the Annual Latin American Celebration and Scholarship Diner held in the Grande Ballroom on Campus.

Students wait in line for the Processional to begin during this years Commencement.

These guys are probably all Dean's List in…something…just not boat building, as they discover the hard way in the Fisher Regatta, an annual spring event in which dorms build untested boats of makeshift design and attempt to cross one of the campus lakes in said craft. 

 A student walks by a mural by artist Daniel Anguilu.

Jalen Cox practices his free-fall self-saving technique on Suicide Hill near the student recreation center as part of his mountaineering class. (Note: Jalen and a dozen of his classmates were caught in an avalanche while on an adventure near the Canwell Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range two weeks after I took this photo. Two of the students were injured, one seriously.)

Freshman Shannon Mulligan relaxes in her Stanley Hall dorm room, a space that was featured as one of the University's most unique.