The tradition began in Cambridge, England in 1918, and has been part of the Roanoke College holiday season since 1985. The Roanoke College A Capella Choir and Oriana Singers are performing this year on Sunday, December 1.

Roanoke College has an expansive mountain playground as its backyard, with access to world-class hiking, biking and paddling, all just minutes away. Here are five of the best experiences as culled from students in Outdoor Adventures.

Students spent four nights backpacking in the Great Smoky Mountains with Outdoor Adventures over fall break - see pictures from and read senior Gabby Arnold's account of the trip!

Roanoke College is hosting Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India for a residency  from Sept. 23-Sept. 27. Their residency which will include the creation of a sand mandala in the atrium of the Colket Center, a lecture on meditation, sacred music and more.

Seniors Emily Spangler and Natalie Whitney each have received a prestigious Rotary scholarship to fund a graduate program anywhere outside the United States and Canada they wish to study.

Olivia Kitt ’20 has been selected by fellow students, faculty and staff of the Lutheran College Washington Semester to receive the Dr. Nancy D. Joyner Spirit Award.

Destinee Harper ’21, a literary studies major and Spanish minor from Harrisonburg, Virginia, is the 8^th Roanoke College student appointed to the US-UK Fulbright Summer Institute in the past 7 years.

ICYMI: Professor of the year, Roanoke's men's lacrosse goalie, surprise guest for Theatre Roanoke College and more stories about Roanoke College in the news.

The Theatre Roanoke College cast of the spring musical, [title of show], was surprised by a special guest on their closing night this past Saturday, April 13.

Linnea Stewart has been awarded a Fulbright to study and conduct research on bird populations on organic and non-organic farms in India.