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Photo gallery: Welcome Week fall 2023

Welcome Week is a campus-wide event that welcomes new Tigers into the family and celebrates the return of students to Mizzou. See photos from some of Welcome Week’s signature events.

Aug. 21, 2023
Contact: Deidra Ashley, ashleyde@missouri.edu
Photos by CJ Harris, Abbie Lankitus and Sam O'Keefe

Students gathered outside on the plaza with Jesse Hall in the background

Students with hands outstretched to touch bubbles in the air

Students talking with each other outside

Two students playing corn hole outside

Group of students seated together outside

Four students in Mizzou First Roar tee shirts

Student laughing while talking to another in a larger group of students

Students at a table draped in the Brazil flag

Students playing corn hole outside

Student on a stage in front of a crowd of students on the plaza

Crowd on the plaza

Crowd on the plaza and one student hitting a beach ball

Crowd on the plaza

Students talking

Students dancing

Back of student wearing a Missouri Tigers tee shirt

Cheerleaders in a yellow Mizzou fire truck

Cheerleaders in a yellow Mizzou fire truck

Large crowd of students in yellow shirts gathered around a large white M on the ground

Students in yellow shirts making a large M on the football field

Students paint rocks with the football field in the background

Students paint rocks white

Students paint rocks white

Students paint rocks white

Student takes the hand of another student while painting rocks

Students paint rocks white

Students paint rocks white

Student signs small white rock

Students with headphones in a gym doing a workout

Student playing volleyball in mid-leap

Student climbing a rock-climbing wall

Students sitting in a row watching people at the pool

Student hitting the water after jumping into the pool

Large crowd of students outside at night

Large crowd of students outside at night

DJ at a turntable with the large crowd in the background

Students going through a food line

Large group of students outside at night

Large group of students around a student turning a backflip

Students seated on the ground outside of a building at night

Students around a football-helmet-shaped cart with numerous students inside

Students seated on football field watching a movie

Students seated on football field watching a movie

Students seated on football field watching a movie

Two students smiling while seated on the ground watching a movie

Group photo of smiling students

Group photo of smiling students

Students seated at tables on stage

Student workers in aprons hold up slices of pizza to be served

Group photo on the steps of Jesse Hall

Students running through the columns

Marching Mizzou students running through the columns

Marching Mizzou students running through the columns

Students running through the columns

Students running through the columns

Students running through the columns

Close-up of Mizzou Ice Cream

Person holding stack of small tubs of Mizzou Ice Cream

Truman the Tiger posed with four people

Musicians from Marching Mizzou

Students with Mizzou Ice Cream

Students seated outside with Mizzou Ice Cream

Students seated on the columns

Two students with Mizzou Ice Cream

Students playing corn hole and drawing with sidewalk chalk

Students playing yard games

Students drawing with sidewalk chalk

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