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Campus Life

  • Soccer team piles up to celebrate
    It was a perfect weekend to come home. °Ä²Ê¿ª½± Homecoming 2017 attracted students, faculty, alumni, parents, and friends en masse, September 8–9. Men’s soccer started the festivities off right, taking down Oregon State 1–0. It was the team’s first victory over a Pac-12 challenger. Field Hockey battled Lock Haven before the homecoming crowds descended on […]
    September 14, 2017
  • Large group of students posed
    On Sept. 7, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± community gathered at the ALANA Cultural Center for the ALANApalooza academic-year kickoff celebration. Visitors were treated to complimentary food hot off the grill as well as Raider Passion ice cream from Gilligan’s Island in Sherburne; information about programs, organizations, and services for °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s multicultural, LGBTQ, and underserved communities; and entertainment […]
    September 8, 2017
  • Arrival Day 2017
    As some members of °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s Division I athletics teams helped unload cars and trucks packed tightly with suitcases and boxes destined for first-year residence halls on the hill, incoming student Grace Kotraba said she knew this was the perfect liberal arts school to spend the next four years. “I visited about 12 other schools, and […]
    August 25, 2017
  • Beekeeping club gets underway with installation of new hives at the Community Garden.
    °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s newest housing accommodations are now home to about 60,000 new residents — honey bees, to be exact. A collaboration between the university’s food service provider, Chartwells, and a group of students looking to support the local honey bee population led to the installation of two hives in a newly established apiary in the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± […]
    June 6, 2017
  • °Ä²Ê¿ª½± hosted its first Mosaic Weekend, March 24–25, featuring two full days of events for students and alumni of color and a keynote speech by ABCNews journalist T.J. Holmes. Mosaic was launched this year to foster additional efforts toward diversity and inclusion at °Ä²Ê¿ª½±. Leading up to the weekend, multicultural students coordinated with alumni office and […]
    April 25, 2017
  • Constellation Orion over the trees at °Ä²Ê¿ª½±
    °Ä²Ê¿ª½± students are getting a picture-perfect view of the Final Frontier. Star ’Gate, an astrophotography club founded this year, teaches astronomy and photography skills to its members. Alina Sabyr ’19 (Astana, Kazakhstan), president and co-founder of Star ’Gate, sparked the idea for the club and first became interested in astrophotography during the 2015–2016 school year, when […]
    April 12, 2017
  • Today marks the first of 13 days of special events, lectures, discussions, films, and more to celebrate °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s efforts toward becoming a more sustainable university and achieving carbon neutrality by 2019. Day 1: April 10 Kick-Off Celebration The 13 Days of Green will begin with a kick-off event on the Academic Quad, Monday, April 10. Come […]
    April 10, 2017
  • recyclemania logo
    Sometimes even school spirit can go green. The annual RecycleMania Tournament continues at °Ä²Ê¿ª½±, as well as on hundreds of other campuses across America. RecycleMania encourages colleges and universities around the country to maximize their recycling efforts by creating a healthy competition to see who can increase their recycling rates the most. In collaboration with […]
    March 30, 2017