The council organizes many events and programs, including: Homecoming, Community Cleanup, Senior Banquet, Take a Tommie to Lunch, Student-Alumni Mentoring and Alumni Reflections.
John Kaltner, the speaker, is a professor of Muslim-Christian relations at Rhodes College in Memphis. All are welcome.
Juli Crees ’11 M.A. was a teacher in the Minneapolis Public School System.
Scholarship criteria include leadership, volunteerism and academics.
TIAA-CREF and Fidelity representatives will answer questions at the HR Fair on March 12-13. Submit a revised Salary Reduction Agreement form by March 22 to qualify for contributions to begin the first pay period in April.
Four faculty members … Don Briel, Charles Reid, Father Andrew Cozzens and Massimo Faggioli … have been busy these days.
Dr. Julie Sullivan, who will become president of St. Thomas on July 1, will offer opportunities for discussion and engagement with St. Thomas faculty and staff in forums on Thursday, April 4.
Susan Alexander has run across an interesting study about the effect of exercise on rat intelligence, and she suggests today in The Scroll that the results that be useful to us humans, too.
St. Thomas Catholic Studies students and St. John Vianney seminarians studying at the Bernardi campus in Rome had aisle seats as Benedict XVI took one final drive through St. Peter’s Square in his Popemobile. Newsroom editor Kate Metzger recalls the morning she spent with them and 300,000 others in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The new book’s essays and articles were compiled by James Silas Rogers, editor of the New Hibernia Review. The reception Monday is open to all.
The daylong program features writers, scholars, therapists and a keynote address by Dr. Brigittine French on “Anthropologists Look at the Irish Family.”
Make a donation to the campaign as a retirement gift for Father Dease and help keep St. Thomas’ participation rate in first place among Minnesota’s private colleges and universities.
The grand prize drawing this year will be for a $100 gift card of your choice.
Dr. Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, Art History, and Dr. Chris Kachian, Music, will present this noontime series. They will cover various periods in art, sculpture, painting, costume history and more – coupled with guitar performances of period music.
Paretsky will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in OEC auditorium. She is the New York Times best-selling author of 17 mystery books and a longtime social activist.
Nominate yourself or someone you know to serve on the Exempt Staff Council.
Students of any major can gain skills this fall that will impress graduate programs and employers. The application deadline is March 15.
January data shows year-t0-year improvements in most categories. In some areas of the Twin Cities, the unusually low inventory is triggering a shift from a buyer’s market to a seller’s market.
This week’s notes feature faculty members Sanjeev Bordoloi, Mark DelCogliano, Massimo Faggioli, John Martens and John Wendt.
Bring a brown-bag lunch; cookies and beverages will be provided.
Preparing for my first semester of college at the University of Iowa, I made some decisions about my course schedule that ended up being rather fortuitous for my later scholarship. First, to fulfill my language requirement, I chose to study Brazilian Portuguese.
Public Safety would like to alert the University of St. Thomas community of an aggravated assault on the 1100 block of Hennepin Avenue.
The challenge will run eight weeks – from Wednesday, March 6, to Tuesday, April 30.
Application forms and essays are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 13.
The program was recorded at St. Thomas last week and features remarks by Bill McKibben of 350.org and J. Drake Hamilton of St. Paul-based Fresh Energy.