Recently the Student Affairs Division announced winners of the 2019-20 Student Leadership Awards. Congratulations to all of the honored recipients! Did you know the University Museum has one of the University’s oldest student awards (over 100 years old!) in its collection? Click here for photos and a description of the Blanchet Gold Medal award.
University Archives and Museum
Sangfroid: Poised and Professional After December 7, 1941
In the century plus since our founding, the University has been through a lot of ups and downs. Working from the Archives in the deep basements of the Bluff, we have had a chance to look back, reflect, and be inspired by those who have led the way before us. Today’s offering from the University […]
Five Months in 1945: New Museum Blog Post
In the century plus since our founding, the University has seen a lot, and been through a lot of ups and downs. Triumphs (yeah, like this year’s women’s basketball WCC championship!!!) as well as times of scarcity and disruption have marked our journey from then to now. Working from the archives in the deep basements […]
Museum Blog Post: Four Corners meet at the Center
Students rubbing elbows, colliding (too much screen-watching), telling stories, and sharing their unique experiences often results in full scale student-sponsored campus programs. Suddenly cultural diversity is manifested and the array of human experience is proudly celebrated. This week, campus members are invited to participate in Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). See the Museum and […]
New Museum Blog Post: “Spires of Learning Reach Up to the Sky”
Robert Franz and his sister Elsie Franz Finley advanced the University mission in 1995 when their generosity helped make construction of Franz Hall possible. The new Franz Campus will bring expanded sporting fields for both varsity and intramural sports, which complements the Franzs’ earlier gift, as from the beginning of UP’s time on the bluff, […]
New Museum Display
To complement our blog entry “Welcome to College” https://sites.up.edu/museum/welcome-to-college/ the Museum has a “New Beginnings for Pilots Past and Present” photograph and artifacts display in the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center near the studies abroad office. Contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at x8038, or piatz@up.edu for more information
Latest Museum Blog Post: Welcome to College
It’s a new year on campus. The grass on the main quad is green. The residence halls are dusted. Moodle is loaded with syllabi. Faculty and staff are ready to welcome first year and upperclass students to a year of adventure and learning and friendship on The Bluff. Visit this new post from the University Archives and […]
A Century of the Rose Festival
The Mock’s Crest Theatre company puts on a Rose Festival drama at Mago Hunt throughout the month of June. But back in the day, UP students built floats for the Grand Floral Parade. We’ve uncovered some photos and articles from the Festival’s Golden Jubilee and share them in our latest entry on the Museum and Archives […]
Thank You Bill Reed!!
We are proud of our graduates and enriched as a family with every commencement weekend, and would like to remind everyone that the bows and ribbons, programs and schedules, the details both large and small for the big show, are expertly managed by the UP events staff, who work behind the scenes to insure a successful and […]
Latest Museum Blog Post: 2018 Retiring University Faculty
Congratulations to our retiring faculty! The University archives and museum announces a new blog post featuring these nine members of the University faculty. Visit the blog for a slideshow of the honored retirees. To complement the blog post, the museum also has a photograph display of the retiring faculty in the display case on the first […]