The Office of Residence Life has begun accepting applications for Fall 2022 and will continue until Oct. 11. Residence Life is responsible for all on-campus living and its core beliefs are that every person is created in the image of God and that they deserve a safe home where they can grow and belong. Emily Berry, assistant director of ... [Read More…]
Sing Song date pushed to end of spring semester
After changes to the event during COVID-19, Sing Song this year will take place in the newly opened Moody Coliseum on April 1-2, 2022. In previous years, Sing Song has taken place in February but this past spring semester, the administration decided to move it to the beginning of April or the end of March moving forward. The Sing Song date ... [Read More…]
Theatre premieres one-man play, ‘Tied’
The Department of Theatre premiered Tied at Fulks Theatre on Saturday. Tied is a play set in 1963 after the death of four young Black girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. In the play Daniel, a devoted husband and father, has lost his youngest daughter to this tragedy. The one-man play was presented in a staged reading performance ... [Read More…]
AES completes summer service trip to Nicaragua
A group of students and staff traveled to Jinotega, Nicaragua for three weeks over the summer to install bio-sand water filters, dig sanitary composting latrines and tour local facilities. The group was from the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Wildcat Academics on Mission (WAM), an initiative of the Halbert Center for ... [Read More…]
Halbert-Walling Research Center launches a new Center for Pre-Health Professions
The new Center for Pre-Health Professions is being launched for students who are preparing to apply to a graduate health professions program to lead to a career in healthcare. Dr. Cynthia Powell, executive director of the Center for Pre-Health Professions, said as the number of graduate programs for health professions has grown and the ... [Read More…]
Gloomy weather welcomed class of 2025 on move-in day
Drizzly weather greeted Wildcat Week volunteers and new students as they made their way to campus for move-in day on Tuesday. Residence halls opened up to students, parents, Wildcat Week leaders and friends from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to move incoming freshmen and transfer students into their first-year living spaces. Macy Frost, a freshman ... [Read More…]
GATA celebrates 100th birthday
GATA members kicked off their 100th birthday celebration on Jan. 16 in The Campus Center after Chapel, handing out red velvet bundtinis. The women of GATA celebrated their centennial with a singing of happy birthday around the GATA fountain and a dance party in the campus center. According to “The Women of GATA” website, the group was ... [Read More…]
Photo contest to be held by Pruett Gerontology
Older generations are in the spotlight due to the “Images of Aging” photo contest being held by the Pruett Gerontology Center taking place Jan. 22 to Feb. 10. “I expect to see photos that express all varieties of aging, from the mundane daily tasks like washing dishes to the extraordinary like the woman who bow hunts at age 70,” Dr. Suzie ... [Read More…]
Student Life reads to children in local laundromat
The Office of Student Life partnered with Laundry Luv to read to children at an Abilene laundromat. It’s in hopes that soon student volunteers will be reading to kids at Laundry Luv on 3202 N. 1st Street. Laundry Luv’s reading program is through a non-profit reading organization, Too Small to Fail, stationed in New York City. According to its ... [Read More…]
Christmas a cappella concert to be in Cullen
A cappella groups are having a Christmas concert at 7 p.m. on Friday in Cullen Auditorium. Hilltop, Grace Note, and Foundation will be performing this week to celebrate the holidays. Anyone is welcome to come and a chapel credit is being offered. According to the Student Life website, a cappella dates back to the founding of the university in ... [Read More…]