The Aquinas Fellowship Program

The Aquinas Fellowship program did not accept new applications for the 2009-10 academic term due to the imminent end of Lilly grant programming. The returning students awarded an Aquinas Fellowship are:

2009-10 Aquinas Student Fellows
Gregory Crane
Phillip Eisenberg
Leandra Hubka
Erin Lyle 
Leah Streitman
Samantha Vosters
Jeffrey Wald

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Part of Beyond Career to Calling, the Aquinas Fellows Program awards tuition fellowships to junior and senior undergraduates who have demonstrated a commitment to the idea of vocation in their lives.  While these students may be exploring a variety of future plans--priesthood or religious life, work in the Church, a professional career--each understands the importance of on-going discernment of God's call to a particular way of life.  These students possess a lively sense of what the Second Vatican Council described as "the universal call to holiness," and they have directed and continue to direct their academic work and their spiritual, social, and service activities toward that goal. 

Aquinas Fellows students serve as models to the wider University community of what it means to integrate faith and professional life, a goal St. Thomas seeks to encourage.  They understand the need to seek wholeness of being rather than the "careerism" that so often results in fragmentation.  Aquinas Fellows accept the responsibility of becoming "vocations leaders" on campus, helping others discern God's call.  To support them in their endeavors, the Aquinas Fellows Program sponsors several events during the academic year, including a formal induction banquet attended by Fellows, parents, and sponsors, a retreat, and other opportunities for fellowship and spiritual growth.

  2008-09 Aquinas Fellowship Recipients