Elizabeth Schiltz has always gravitated to kids who seem to have special needs, having helped organize a volunteer tutor program at an inner-city elementary school as an undergraduate at Yale University. The kids reminded her of her older brother.
The Tommie volleyball team was invited to breakfast with Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton in honor of its recent NCAA Divsion III championship. According to Dayton, “Purple is my favorite color.”
The small island nation may have averted bankruptcy, but that’s just the beginning of its problems.
The concert will be performed in the Twin Cities and Rochester and will feature music that reaches across Indian, Persian and Sephardic-Jewish musical traditions.
Run for a position on the USG; candidate packets must be submitted at a meeting on April 4.
This year the conference honors Howard Ross, Elsa Batica and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
A St. Thomas alumnus, he was a physician and an aviator in North Dakota.
He was the father of Chad Brinsfield, Opus College of Business.
The institute provides great learning opportunities for students and helps small business clients improve their performance and profitability.
Carol Bruess is seeing a little more foot traffic around her home these spring days, and the visitors are stopping to “oooooo and “ahhhhh” at her Little Free Library. You should check it out, too, she suggests today in The Scroll.
The event will take place over convo hour, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Campus Way, second level, Anderson Student Center.
The program on April 10 features Dr. Shelley Neilsen Gatti and Dr. Tim Balke, who will speak on “Early Warning Signs of Mental Illness,” and a Fidgety Fairy Fairy Tales musical designed to help raise awareness of mental health issues of children.
Kennedy taught at St. Thomas for 30 years and is now an auxiliary bishop of Boston. He will speak on “The New Evangelization.”
Barbour, who will attend the event, is one of the best-known figures in the interdisciplinary study of science and religion.
She was the mother of Margaret Brandes, Department of Campus Life.
League play will begin on Tuesday, May 14. Sign up as a team of two, an individual or add your name to the list of substitutes.
The first person to sign up from a country will be that country’s flag bearer. The deadline to submit a request form is Wednesday, April 10.
Minneapolis campus students who park in the ramp also must return their Green Cards for the ramp to Parking Services.
This Friday St. Thomas celebrates 20 years of the Luann Dummer Center for Women. Here is the story of the incredible woman who started it all one month before her premature death from lung cancer in 1992.
He was the father of Jeff Martens, Physical Plant; the father-in-law of Leann Martens, Service Center; and the grandfather of Cassandra Watson, Service Center.
The awards will be presented at UAWE’s annual spring reception, which will be held Tuesday, April 23, in McNeely Hall, on the university’s St. Paul campus. The St. Thomas community is invited to attend.
In the beginning of Andera Nesmith’s social work career, she worked with issues pertaining to runaways, homeless youth, youth with incarcerated parents and older youth in foster care. She has since discovered a common thread that attracted her to these populations — youth who were separated from their parents, either by their own actions or the actions of others.
By now winter is the season we despise with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. We shouldn’t let that stop us from taking a look back at what winter was before it became the March and April bully.
The new pieces will fill a niche near the ceiling on the eastern wall of The Gallery on the second floor of the Anderson Student Center, which is home to the AMAA@UST. They are expected to be installed by the end of spring semester.
He was the father of Peter Parilla, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.