Growing up, Karah James '21 fell in love with music, including a genre called soca from her father's native Trinidad, where the energetic sounds are the backdrop to dances at parties and Carnival.

On a clear night, the stars above Bucknell's campus shine brightly enough to make anyone marvel, but they're especially awe-inspiring for students in the observational astrophysics class taught by Professor Katelyn Allers, physics & astronomy.

Sam Blount '20 had never built a website before she and a team of fellow students tackled that task in a class — on behalf of a real client.

To make great stuff, sometimes you have to break stuff. UNIV 264, a course in materials science taught by Professor Tim Raymond, chemical engineering, takes this maxim to the extreme.

It's been a year of big announcements and even bigger achievements for Bucknell University.

Brock Hower '20, Abby Iaconis '20 and Jackson McCune '20 could have written final papers to fulfill the requirements of their Global Supply Chain Management course.

For India native Yash Mittal '19, coming to Bucknell was a "big jump" that led to even larger leaps. Last year, the computer science & engineering major studied abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he took a few unexpected turns on the dance floor — and a lot of photos.

Conor Moore '20 was the kind of high school student who read environmental science articles for fun, so majoring in environmental studies at Bucknell was a natural choice. What he couldn't have predicted was the first-year philosophy course that inspired him to add a second major in that discipline — or the opportunity to help shape a new class that marries his two interests.