UST’s Art History Department and the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians will co-host this free event, which is open to the public.

The number of new cases ranges from one to 13 per day, according to this week’s campus flu update.

Tickets are to “The Importance of Being Earnest” on Oct. 1.

A military veteran faculty or staff member is preferred, but all full-time UST faculty and staff members are welcome to answer the call.

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, Dr. John Abraham, UST Engineering Department, and Margret Levin of the Sierra Club will speak on environmental issues from different perspectives.

Try the 20th-Century American Poetry, Literature Online and iPoll databases before their trial periods end.

The International Education Center, the Office of International Student Services and ELS Language Centers sponsor this annual celebration.

A dedication ceremony for the ramp and the observatory will be at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the 3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall; a reception and observatory tour will follow.

Monsignor James Lavin, who lived in Ireland Hall from 1946 to 2002, visited St. John Vianney Seminary for evening prayer on Thursday, Sept. 17. He gave a brief talk and afterward greeted and blessed each of the seminarians. Lavin arrived at the St. Thomas campus 73 years ago as a freshman; he graduated in 1940 and was ordained in 1945. Here he greets David Neuschwander. Lavin, 90, lives in a nursing home in St. Paul and helps out in the Alumni Association office. (Photo by seminarian Michael Yassick.)

A variety of activities are planned – most of them free – for students and their families.