Tour the grocery store on Nov. 5 and learn how to buy healthy food on a budget.

College graduates from a variety of disciplines can participate in this two-year service-through-teaching program.

Deadline for applications is Friday, Nov. 13.

Haruka Seki has gone from waking up to Mount Fuji and rice fields in the Japanese countryside to the Mississippi River and squirrels playing in large oak trees in St. Paul.

The educational assistants also will be offering statistics-help sessions, a new feature for psychology students.

A member of St. Thomas’ education faculty for the past 13 years, Kramer has served as the college’s interim dean since May 2008.

The Listening House Silent Auction fulfills the BUS200 requirement.

If you are an undergraduate business major or minor, have completed BUS200, and are going to be here over J-Term 2010, you are eligible to apply for a position on the Gibney Student Board, which will oversee donating $25,000 to area nonprofits.

The need is great. Columnist Father Malone asks you to increase your pledge this year. The pledge form will be e-mailed Monday.

Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4.

Columnists Mark Dienhart, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Susan Huber, executive vice president and chief academic officer, note that pay increases will begin to show up in November paychecks, and that with three extra days off around the Christmas holidays, staff members will be off 11 straight days heading into 2010.

The 6:45 p.m. Mass on Sunday, Nov. 1, will be a candlelight liturgy.

St. Thomas’ Evening MBA Program is sponsoring the Nov. 6-7 event.

The program is part of the university’s fall CommUNITY Series.

Everyone is welcome to this free event on Nov. 7. Anyone interested in performing is invited to sign up.

Feedback is needed on two databases, ProQuest’s digital archive of the British newspapers The Guardian and The Observer (1791-2003) and PsychiatryOnline.

Watch (Brett and) the Vikings play the Packers Sunday at Scooter’s.

The process will begin today on the St. Paul campus; be on the lookout for water blowing out of the sprinklers.

Delta Sigma Pi is an international professional business fraternity. It encourages scholarship, social activity and further involvement in the business community.

UST’s Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center in the College of Arts and Sciences will host this talk by Dr. Yahya Michot on Nov. 5. The event is free.

The celebration starts at 1:30 p.m. on the first floor of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. The library was dedicated 50 years ago today.

Student Health Service Director Madonna McDermott said the mobile unit will provide additional space to see the growing number of students who have the flu.

Up ’til Dawn is a student-run organization on campus that raises money and awareness for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The documentary film, which will be shown Thursday by the Globally Minded Student Association, explores why the charity given to Africa over the last five decades has been largely ineffective and often harmful.

Among recent stories of interest: UST Athletic Hall of Famer Jake Mauer ’01 has been named manager of the Fort Myers Miracle, a Minnesota Twins minor league team.