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Sue Huber to Retire as EVP in June 2014
22 May 2013 by Doug Hennes '77 / No Comments
Dr. Susan Huber, executive vice president and chief academic officer at St. Thomas since 2008, will retire from her position on June 30, 2014. Dr. Julie Sullivan, president-elect, said she will launch a national search this fall for Huber’s successor.
Waste Not
09 May 2013 by Kelly Engebretson '99 M.A. / No Comments
David Dougherty ’65 followed an unexpected path from adventure-seeking college grad to an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Five Community Members Honored at St. Thomas Day Awards
03 May 2013 by Kelly Engebretson '99 M.A. : Videos by Web and Media Services / 1 Comment
Each year, the University of St. Thomas celebrates St. Thomas Day, which recognizes the extraordinary contributions that members of the St. Thomas community have made to the university and the wider community.
Lives Intertwined
02 May 2013 by Michael O’Donnell, Communication and Journalism Department / No Comments
Miles Trump ’11 had been on the job at the Waseca County News only a few weeks when a phone call came that no reporter wants to get.
Q&A with Matthew Meyer ’96
02 May 2013 by Terence Langan / No Comments
As a philosophy professor at the University of Scranton, Matthew Meyer integrates the liberal arts for his students much as his St. Thomas professors did for him. “I’m trying to make each of my students a philosopher in the original sense of the word, a lover of wisdom,” he said.
Mike Johnson Survives Boston Marathon to Run Another Day
22 Apr 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / 1 Comment
Mike Johnson ’90 has run 20 marathons, and he never started a marathon that he did not finish … until a week ago today at the Boston Marathon.
Millennial Illumination
19 Apr 2013 by Lisa Guyott / No Comments
Martha McCarthy ’11 and Emily Pritchard ’11 used their entrepreneurship studies to create the Social Lights.
Holly Hanson Takes Three St. Thomas Degrees to Prison as a Clinical Program Therapist
18 Apr 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / No Comments
Holly Hanson is a clinical program therapist within the Sex Offender Treatment Program at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Lino Lakes, a job she has held since Sept. 25, 2012.
Jeremy Olson ’95 Wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
16 Apr 2013 by Kate Metzger / 1 Comment
Jeremy Olson ’95, along with fellow Star Tribune reporters Brad Schrade and Glenn Howatt, won journalism’s top prize for their work on a series about an increase in infant deaths at in-home daycare centers.
Energizer
12 Apr 2013 by Kate Norlander '07 M.B.C. / No Comments
What keeps Alan Bignall ’85 M.B.A. going and going and going? In a word: passion. Bignall ispresident and CEO of ReconRobotics Inc., a company that creates tactical micro-robot systems used by the military, law enforcement and rescue teams. Currently, their robots can explore an environment that might be dangerous for humans to enter and provide auditory and visual feedback, even in complete darkness.
Please Remember Norbert O’Keefe ’52 in Your Prayers
05 Apr 2013 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
A St. Thomas alumnus, he was a physician and an aviator in North Dakota.
Please Pray for the Health of Bill Monday ’88
28 Mar 2013 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
While traveling for work, Monday fell ill with an unknown illness and is in intensive care in a Hong Kong hospital.
Zachary Sikich ’05 Gets NHL Moment With Anaheim Ducks vs. Minnesota Wild
22 Mar 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / No Comments
Hockey has taken the ’05 grad all across the country and even across the Pacific Ocean to China. Earlier this month hockey carried him to the Xcel Energy Center and the NHL to suit up for the Anaheim Ducks when they were in town to take on the Minnesota Wild.
A Conversation With Poet Sun Yung Chin ’05 M.A.
18 Mar 2013 by Kelly Engebretson '99 M.A. / No Comments
Shin’s latest poetry collection, Rough, and Savage, was published by Coffee House Press late last year.
Please Remember Juli Crees in Your Prayers
06 Mar 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / No Comments
Juli Crees ’11 M.A. was a teacher in the Minneapolis Public School System.
Mike Johnson ’90 Goes the Distance (314.4 miles) Running 12 Marathons in 12 Months
21 Feb 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / 4 Comments
Despite running an even dozen marathons in 2012 (and a wee bit of 2013), there’s one more 26.2-mile race on his agenda … the Boston Marathon in April.
Back to Her Rural Roots
21 Feb 2013 by Mary R. Fisher / No Comments
For Kristi Schlosser Carlson ’06, a degree from the University of St. Thomas School of Law combined her family background and her passions with a satisfying career as general counsel and director of government relations for the North Dakota Farmers Union, a grassroots organization driven by its members to advocate for family farmers.
Please Pray for the Health of Karen Peterka
20 Feb 2013 by Tom Couillard '75 / No Comments
A 1998 graduate of St. Thomas, she learned last week that she has a brain tumor. In fall 2012 she taught actuarial science as an adjunct instructor.
The Scroll: It’s Take a Tommie to Lunch Time!
19 Feb 2013 by Diane Kulseth '11 / No Comments
When Diane Kulseth graduated from St. Thomas in 2011, she decided not to get over-involved with activities for a year. Then she saw the Take a Tommie to Lunch invitation and couldn’t resist, having been mentored by an alumna during her senior year. Diane writes about that experience today in The Scroll in hopes that you – students and alumni alike – will sign up for the program by March 5.
The Fastest Game on Ice
06 Feb 2013 by Valerie Turgeon '13 / No Comments
University of St. Thomas alum Jon Palmeri ’07 straps on his skates for Red Bull Crashed Ice, a competition that makes the X-Games look like a kiddie ride.
Life After Catholic Studies
08 Dec 2012 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Undergraduate and Graduate Alumni Speak About Bringing Catholic Studies Into the “Real World”
Q&A with Brian McEnaney ’85
30 Nov 2012 by Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, Art History Department / No Comments
With an undergraduate finance major and a mini-master’s in health care from St. Thomas, Brian McEnaney was well-prepared for the technical requirements of a career in software and health information systems.
(A)rising to the Challenge
14 Nov 2012 by Kate Norlander '07 M.B.C. / No Comments
Angela Selden ’87 leads Arise Virtual Solutions to success and invites the nation’s leaders to use technology to put Americans back to work.
Please Pray for the Health of Jerome Peterson ’59
08 Nov 2012 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
He is in critical condition after emergency surgery last week. He is the father of Mark Peterson ’80 and grandfather of Carolyn Connelly ’11.
POP! How Brad Ribar ’82 Turned a Kernel of an Idea Into a ‘Summer Job’ Grossing $1 Million Annually.
08 Nov 2012 by Lisa Guyott / No Comments
For many regular fairgoers, a stop at the corn roast stand is a must. But when it first appeared 28 years ago, it was a slightly harder sell. “We gave away a lot of free samples the first year. People had never seen roasted corn before. Also, when we first started, no one wanted burnt kernels. Now, they ask for them,” Ribar says.
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