It took two years, but the Frank Gehry-designed structure is finally being rebuilt at its new home on St. Thomas’ Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center grounds in Owatonna.
- Gehry house reconstruction underway
- Purchasing Committee announces guidelines for bidding and vendors
Bidding for goods and services over $3,000 is now in effect. Training will be available this summer and fall through the university’s Leadership Academy.
- Center for Nonprofit Management hosts NGO leaders from Asia, Middle East
The center previously hosted delegations from Kazakhstan, Turkey and China.
- Welcome to campus, Minnesota Swarm Girls Lacrosse Camp
The camp will be on the St. Paul campus July 12-14.
- Travel Committee announces policies and preferred vendors
Faculty and staff are asked to book all travel with the preferred vendors effective immediately.
- No grill on the lower quad this Wednesday
The grill is taking the day off because of orientation activities. It will return next week.
- St. Thomas sophomore Bri Velzke is starring in ‘Gypsy’ this summer
The music and vocal education major is in an Owatonna production that runs through July 17.
- Computing network and voice-mail outages planned for this weekend
From Information Resources and Technologies Information Resources and Technologies will conduct upgrades to its central systems between 6 a.m. and noon on Sunday, July 11. Additionally, work on the University of St. Thomas telephone system will result in intermittent outages affecting voice mail and incoming and outgoing calls from 7 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. [...]
- Morrison Hall parking ramps to remain closed until July 12
The ramps were expected to open on Thursday, July 8, but work on the drive aisles is taking longer than expected.
- Public Safety hosts farewell receptions Friday for Carl Sorensen
The Minneapolis campus public safety manager is retiring after nine years of service to the university.
- Credit Union’s June statement contains error
The Credit Union’s software provider is trying to correct the error.
- Morrison Hall parking ramps closed July 6-7
The ramps are closed today and tomorrow while the entrances are being repaved.
- UST in the news
Media highlight faculty experts and more in this collection of clips from the past week.
- Professional notes
Faculty contribute to their professions outside the classroom, too.
- ‘Tremendous’ locker room awaits football players
Players are excited for space that should “set the standard for Division III locker rooms,” says Coach Glenn Caruso.
- Welcome new staff members
Five staff members recently joined the campus community.
- Postcard from ContinuousHealth sent by mistake
ContinuousHealth regrets the error and the confusion it caused.
- Tuition remission waiting period established for new employees
Full-time faculty and staff hired on or after July 1 now have a one-year waiting period before tuition remission benefits will be available to them.
- 1971 alumnus named bishop of Spokane, Wash.
Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Blase Cupich ’71 of Rapid City, S.D., the new bishop of the Diocese of Spokane. He joins a list of at least nine other men named bishops in recent years who have St. Thomas and St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity ties
- Academic Affairs conducts summer food drive July 7-16
The goal is to raise $175 and collect 350 pounds of food.
- July 1: Please remember in your prayers Del Weiss
He was the father of Sheila Weiss, a student in the Evening UST MBA program.