Dr. Camille George to serve on 2009 Opus Award Committee

The University of St. Thomas will serve as a partner with the Opus Prize Foundation to award a $1 million gift next year to an individual or organization whose faith-based, entrepreneurial leadership helps people in need to transform their lives.

Dr. Camille George is one of St. Thomas faculty chosen to be on the St. Thomas oversight committee which will help award the million dollar Opus prize for humanitarian work. This  further promotes our peace engineering values.

The gift will be awarded in October 2009 by the foundation, following an 18-month joint effort with St. Thomas to identify a recipient. Two other individuals or organizations will receive $100,000 each.

The Opus Group, a national real estate development company based in Minnetonka, established the foundation in 2004. It works with Catholic universities to make the award.

Previous partners have been the University of San Francisco, Marquette University, the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University of America and Seattle University.

To read more about the Opus Prize and past winners, go to opusprize.org.

Link to the Bulletin Today story:

http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200840/Thursday/opusprize10_2_08.cfm