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- Tommie Almanac available on Institutional Research and Analysis Web site
- Service-Learning hosts reception honoring directors Oct. 21
The event will welcome Kevin Sauter, newly appointed faculty director, and will honor the service of Amy Muse, outgoing faculty director.
- Info session highlights Boren scholarships, fellowships
Scholarship awards up to $20,000 and fellowship awards up to $30,000 are available to those who study in countries generally underrepresented in study-abroad programs.
- Number of campus flu cases continues upward trend
Most students with the flu are recovering in a few days and returning to classes.
- Another alumnus named bishop
Pope Benedict XVI yesterday named Father Paul Sirba the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Duluth, Minn.
- Dr. Bernard Armada to speak on ‘Memory’s Execution’ Oct. 20
He will talk about the 2002 expansion of the National Civil Rights Museum and how its architectural difference from the original museum illustrates the complex relationship between remembering and forgetting.
- Ordway offers UST discount for upcoming performances
Tickets to Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance (Oct. 30) and singer/songwriter Yasmin Levy (Nov. 1) are just $15.
- School of Social Work’s Spirituality Institute to offer Oct. 30 ‘peace training’ workshop
Dr. Mari Ann Graham, co-director of the institute, will lead the workshop that uses song, visual images and exercises.
- Panel on ‘Racial Profiling in America’ planned here Tuesday
The program is part of the CommUNITY Series at St. Thomas this semester.
- Take the cure
There’s a new blog at St. Thomas designed to inspire acts of kindness, great and small, in the UST community. It’s part of the of Acts of Kindness campaign, a joint effort begun by the university’s Office for Mission and Human Resources Department. Today the AOK blog’s moderator, School of Law staff member Ashley Bowes, lauds a co-worker for making Mondays much easier to stomach.
