News and College Life

Seymour preps for the 'big moment' during the fall 2025 undergraduate commencement at Reed Green Coliseum.

Hundreds of students converge for a giant snowball fight for Bascom Hill. The Battle for Bascom has been a student-organized tradition since 2009, initiated on social media (this year YikYak) after the first major snowfall of the year.

Hundreds of students , armed with cardboard shields and willpower, converge for a giant snowball fight for Bascom Hill. The Battle for Bascom has been a student-organized tradition since 2009, initiated on social media (this year YikYak) after the first major snowfall of the year.

During the final week of classes for the fall semester, students from "Beyond the Rainbow" and "Sex in the Brain," two first-year seminars exploring the topics of color and neuroscience, came together for a special joint class. Ideas, friendships, and disciplines intersected, with help from instructor Wells Castonguay's foster rabbit, Patience, who lounged in a playpen and, true to her name, did not speak out of turn.
 

We are family. That’s the prevailing sentiment when seniors gather together with their besties for the college's ritual of binding senior theses.

Huddled (it was cold) together on the steps of Coram or Hathorn halls, faculty, staff, and students (sometimes pets, parents, and presidents, too) turn out to support and celebrate the culmination of four years of hard work. Frigid temps aside — the weather is never an issue — celebrants are prepared to address the crowd, bind their academic work, pop the cork, and toast with abandon.
 

Gunnison Memorial Chapel is illuminated with over 250 candles during the 104th Annual Candlelight Service. The program featured thoughtful Christmas Readings and wonderful music led by The Laurentian Singers and Choral Society, Candlelight Children's Chorus, and Dr. Michelle Martin-Atwood, University Organist.  

University police officers collect gifts for Toys for Tots donations. 

Reflected in a sideview mirror, James Tukpah, a computer engineering PhD student, works on a fully autonomous all-terrain vehicle in the high bay robotics lab. 

A student waves to their family after receiving their diploma at the Fall Commencement Ceremony. December 13, 2025

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