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From a brand-new cafeteria to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s bicentennial kick-off celebration, 2022 has been a BIG year for Â鶹ÊÓƵ University. So, we thought we’d gather some of our favorite memories from this year. Please enjoy a few moments that made 2022 an unforgettable year at UU.

2022 started with a bang! On January 6, Â鶹ÊÓƵites woke up to the campus covered in snow, which became a day filled with building snowmen and snowball fights for students.

Students returned from winter break to a brand-new cafeteria! The $2 million remodel made Brewer Dining Hall a fun and exciting place for students to eat meals and build friendships for years to come.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ student, Eunice Tan, and the rest of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Voices of Proclommation perform at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s annual Night of Worship, hosted at Englewood Baptist Church. It is a great night of student-led worship and praise for the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Jackson community.

Betsy Caceres, assistant professor of chemistry, teaches her students in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s state-of-the-art chemistry labs. In fact, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s department of chemistry has a 100% medical school acceptance rate from its graduates in the past five years!

UU student, Meg McGaha, is greeted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff during one of the university’s favorite traditions. Food For Finals is hosted every finals week, when faculty and staff give students a much needed study break and serve them a late night breakfast in the Brewer Dining Hall.

Nathan Furlough receives his degree from Â鶹ÊÓƵ president, Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver on May 21, 2022. Nathan was just one of over 600 Â鶹ÊÓƵ graduates celebrated during our Spring Commencement Ceremony, and we are proud to see all these wonderful UU alumni serving church and society around the world.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ students help break ground Sept. 9, 2022 on a 40,000-square-foot academic building on the Great Lawn that will house the McAfee School of Business and the departments of computer science and engineering. We love this picture because it represents current students helping lay the foundation for an academic building where future students will be able to thrive.

Students worship as David Crowder performs a special concert at Â鶹ÊÓƵ University, as part of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s bicentennial kick-off celebration. Over 5,000 celebrated Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s bicentennial kick-off with us during a weekend of fun for the whole family!

Â鶹ÊÓƵ student athlete, De Vries, in mid-kick during Â鶹ÊÓƵ men’s soccer match against Spring Hill College.

Award-winning musicians, Natalie Grant and Danny Gokey, kicked off the holiday season with a Christmas concert at the Carl Perkins Civic Center on Nov. 29. Over 1,300 donors, students and community members attended the 24th annual Scholarship Banquet to raise support for student scholarships at Â鶹ÊÓƵ University.