Researchers say the inventory of available homes is the lowest in more than eight years. They examine why that is and why it could lead to changes in the Twin Cities real estate market.
The Campus Sustainability Fund finances projects that promote climate-neutrality and sustainability at St. Thomas.
A survey will be emailed to all full-time St. Thomas juniors on Monday, Dec. 3; the survey closes at midnight Friday, Dec. 7.
St. Paul resident students who want to purchase a spring parking permit must submit a lottery form by Thursday, Dec. 13. Minneapolis permit registration opens Monday, Dec. 10; Minneapolis full-time day students who purchased permits for the fall 2012 semester only must renew their parking contract by Wednesday, Jan. 2, if they want to park on campus for J-Term and spring semester.
Christmas will be merry for 98 credit union members who joined the Christmas Club in November 2011. Join the club to start saving for next year and take advantage of a Santa Special loan today.
Freshman Christian Roemhildt and senior Jesse Stock proposed the resolution.
All donations will be given to Joseph’s Coat in St. Paul for distribution to people in need in the Twin Cities.
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, asking “why” in a serial and dogged fashion. Growing up in a household at once Catholic and academic I think I was groomed to ask “why” in such a way.
Most weekdays last summer Grant Schmura and David Houserman left the biology lab around noon and drove to Lake Judy in Shoreview, Minn. Before each of those days was done they would spend five hours gathering and tracking painted turtles.
Toys will be accepted at two locations on the St. Paul campus and one location on the Minneapolis campus until 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20.
A student wondered what it would be like to be a kid at Carol Bruess’ dinner table, so the communication and journalism professor teamed up with her paired-course partner, Jeff McLean of the Mathematics Department, and invited the class over. Bruess tells you what happened – and what they ate – today in The Scroll.
Holiday and retail traditions once differed greatly in London and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Those differences are now less pronounced.
From Exemplars: Faculty and graduate research at the University of St. Thomas.
A reception for the Tommies’ NCAA champion volleyball team will be held at noon Thursday Nov. 29, in Schoenecker Arena. Students, alumni, parents and fans are invited. Cake will be served after a brief ceremony.
St. Thomas was one of 12 Twin Cities’ organizations awarded the 2012 Commuter Choice Award for its successful programs that promote alternate transportation options.
Preliminary voting for three Tommie Award finalists will take place Monday through Wednesday, Dec. 10-12. All students, faculty and staff are eligible to vote.
On the fourth Thursday of every month, St. Thomas volunteers have prepared and served meals in partnership with Loaves and Fishes, a nonprofit, volunteer-driven agency that serves nutritious meals to the Twin Cities’ hungry. St. Thomas has fed 250 people a month at dinners held at Faith Lutheran Church in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul.
She was the mother of Joseph T. Bork, Opus College of Business.
The university observatory will open its doors for public observing on Nov. 28 and Dec. 12.
The Segway was originally viewed as a tool for the St. Paul Police Department and Public Safety to better conduct weekend patrols of the neighborhood surrounding St. Thomas during fall and spring months.
All are welcome to enjoy this annual event presented by the seminary’s Chorale and Schola.
A white male in his late 20s, wearing a black hooded jacket and sunglasses, showed a handgun and demanded cash from a SuperAmerica store employee.
Each of the scholarly journals edited or published in the College of Arts and Sciences provides new information and exciting opportunities to the faculty who work on them.
Discussing a particular theological question is like pulling that piece of thread coming out of your sweater. The more you pull, the more you see how connected the piece of thread is to the whole of the sweater.
For the past three summers, graduate students and beginning professors of philosophy and theology have traveled from around the world to attend the St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theory.