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Fall 2025 Commencement
Fall 2025 Commencement

Friday, Dec. 12, 2025

Commencement is the ultimate celebration of one of the most significant accomplishments of our students' lifetimes. We are proud to honor your achievement.

Featured events

  • Fall 2025 Commencement
    Dec
    12
    Fall 2025 Commencement
    Friday, Dec. 12, 2025

    Commencement is the ultimate celebration of one of the most significant accomplishments of our students' lifetimes. We are proud to honor your achievement.

  • Sustainability & Climate Literacy Course (Re)Design Workshop
    Dec
    15
    Sustainability & Climate Literacy Course (Re)Design Workshop

    Pathways to Resilience

    Monday, Dec. 15, 2025
    9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

    This workshop’s purpose is to support the development of Gen Ed SCL courses; preference will be given to faculty who will work on courses that can also meet the requirements of one of these Gen Ed designators: Fine Arts, Historical Studies or Literary Studies. We also aim to inspire/foster faculty creativity around teaching about climate, expand the circle of faculty who are teaching about climate, and build community among these faculty.

  • Internship Expo
    Jan
    28
    Internship Expo

    Career Development Center

    Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026
    11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

    Are you looking to gain experience through an internship? Come to the Internship Expo and meet large, small, non-profit, for-profit, government, local, statewide, and national organizations seeking interns. All majors and all class years are welcome.

  • Outdoor Jobs Fair
    Feb
    11
    Outdoor Jobs Fair

    Career Development Center

    Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
    11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

    We invite students of all majors who thrive in outdoor activity to meet with employers who are looking to turn their passions into a profession. The annual Outdoor Jobs Fair will host top camps, conference centers, and resorts from throughout the US who are eager to make a connection and recruit for their organizations. This is a great opportunity to secure both summer and year-round employment. Internships are also available, and all majors are encouraged to attend.

  • Blood Drive for Faculty and Staff
    Feb
    13
    Blood Drive for Faculty and Staff

    Health Promotions for Faculty and Staff (HPFS)

    Friday, Feb. 13, 2026

    Blood drives are sponsored quarterly by the American Red Cross. Faculty, staff, retirees, and family members can now complete their pre-reading and health history questions online by visiting redbrossblood.org on the day of their donor appointment to help reduce the time they spend at the driveby up to 15 minutes. Appointments are highly suggested. Walk-ins are welcomed but will be taken after donors with appointments.

  • Margo Price
    Feb
    14
    Margo Price

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

    Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
    7:30 p.m.

    For nearly a decade, Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Now she’s back with an exquisite, timeless album that reconnects with her roots. At its core, Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver — especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line. It’s country music as only Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.

  • Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance
    Feb
    20
    Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

    Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
    7:30 p.m.

    For over 50 years, Ailey II – The Next Generation of Dance – has merged the spirit and energy of the country’s finest early-career dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding and emerging choreographers. Founded by Alvin Ailey in 1974, this universally renowned company embodies his pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and community programs for all people.

  • oh to be pure again
    Feb
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    oh to be pure again

    Department of Theatre and Dance

    Feb. 25 - March 1, 2026

    During one hot Texas summer at a Charismatic Christian camp, an idealistic counselor works to shepherd the senior girls’ cabin along their journey to make an authentic connection with something bigger than themselves, only to be confronted with disillusionment of her own faith. A visceral ode to female desire, submission, rebellion, and growing up in a religious culture that's obsessed with purity. By Kira Rockwell.

  • Kira Rockwell
    Feb
    26
    Kira Rockwell

    Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine and Applied Arts

    Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
    7 p.m.

    Kira Rockwell is an Atlanta-based playwright and educator, originally from the heart of Texas. She is an Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing with the Mass Cultural Council, a recipient of the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, second-place recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, three-time finalist for the O’Neill NPC, runner-up for the Princess Grace Award, and more.

  • Construction, Design & Sustainable Technology Fair
    Mar
    3
    Construction, Design & Sustainable Technology Fair

    Career Development Center

    Tuesday, March 3, 2026
    12 - 3 p.m.

    The Construction, Design, and Sustainable Technology Career Fair is a targeted event specifically created to connect employers and students in this popular discipline. Serving students and alumni in the STBE department, the event is host to many organizations across the construction, design and sustainable technology industry that are ready to network with students and introduce them to valuable internship and job opportunities, while also creating a pipeline of potential future interns and new hires.

  • Internship and Job Fair
    Mar
    4
    Internship and Job Fair

    Career Development Center

    Wednesday, March 4, 2026
    12 - 3 p.m.

    The Internship and Job Fair is our largest and most comprehensive career event. Serving students and alumni of all majors and skills, the event is host to many organizations across all industry sectors that are ready to network with students and introduce them to hundreds of valuable internship and job opportunities.

  • Once Upon a Mattress
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    Once Upon a Mattress

    Department of Theatre and Dance

    April 15 - 19, 2026

    Many moons ago in a far-off place, Queen Aggravain decreed no couples could marry until her son, Prince Dauntless, found a bride. Princesses came from far and wide to win the hand of the prince, but none could pass the impossible tests given to them by the Queen. That is, until the “shy” swamp princess, Winnifred the Woebegone, showed up. Would she be able to pass the Sensitivity Test, marry her prince and help Lady Larken and Sir Harry to the altar? Music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer

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Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman

Nov. 7, 2025 – April 4, 2026
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

What we have, we owe to bees. Among the most prolific pollinators on the planet, bees helped create and maintain the biodiverse ecosystems that made it possible for humanity to take root and grow. Over millions of years, our shared evolution has grown increasingly intertwined. And today, human activity is impacting wild and domesticated bee populations in unprecedented ways.

Exhibitions and ongoing events

  • Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
    Dec
    5
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    2
    Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • contributing structure: SR Lejeune
    Nov
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    contributing structure: SR Lejeune
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
    Nov
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    Apr
    4
    Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • Image and Music: John Cohen
    Jun
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    Dec
    13
    Image and Music: John Cohen
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • 39th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
    May
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    39th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
View all exhibitions and ongoing events

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Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson

Dec. 5, 2025 – May 2, 2026
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

Pause to reorient yourself to water. Consider the source: replenishing Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and Southeastern United States. Waterways have written and rewritten this living waterscape, called by many names over time. The headwaters of the ancient New River were born millions of years ago and have flowed through countless human lifetimes. Water inscribes the landscape as a story that pools and spills and splashes in and out of range of human understandings.

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