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2009 Department Award Winners

  • Nathaniel Minor and Luis Rangel (James G. Ahler Award for SOC 210/220)
  • Nathanial Minor (John C. Gessner Scholarship)
  • Breanna Alston (Sociologists Women in Society Award)

Kudos to Lucas Power, Eric Gadbois, and Luis Rangel

for receiving J. Edgar Hoover Memorial scholaships for 2009. These scholarships were funded by the Former Agents of the F.B.I. Foundation, Mr. Jean Gray (UST Alum) and the Graybrier Foundation, and Waypoint, INC. Award Ceremony Photos

2009 Young Scholar award winners


Randy Hade (Dr. Lisa Waldner, faculty advisor). Randy's project is an examination of the impact of a community garden in a St. Paul neighborhood as well as community connectedness and civic engagement.

Katherine Cook (Dr. Lisa Waldner, faculty advisor) Katie's proejct will assist Family and Children's Service in assessing whether their out of school time program, Youth on the Move, is effective and to design better assessment tools.  

Nathanial Minor and Katherine Cook were selected to participate in the 2009 ASA Honors program in San Francisco.

Kudos to Nathanial Minor, Jacqueline Hillstrom, and Luis Rangel who presented posters at the 2009 Midwest Sociological Society meetings in Des Moines, Iowa. Scott Demuth presented his paper in an undergraduate paper session.

Mali Seed Potato Project

January 2009 Dr. Sue Smith-Cunnien, Luis Rangel (Criminal Justice) and Nathanial Minor (Sociology) traveld to Borko, Mali (western Africa) to work with an interdisciplinary team that was assisting the Mali Agribusiness Centre to determining the ability of Borko to grow seed potatoes and to project both the cultural and economic costs to the village. The project was funded by a grant by the US Department of Agriculture. Below is a photo gallery of photos from Mali.

Mali 2009 Photos

Alexandria Law Enforcement Skills Program


Congratulations to the following Sociology & Criminal Justice Majors who successfully completed the Alexandria Law Enforcement Skills Program-Summer 2009. These students are now eligible to take the POST test, the next step to becoming a police officer in Minnesota:

Scott M. Smith and Kallie R. Samuelson

Student Research

  • Former student Jillian Berg co-authored with Dr. Waldner an article on anti-gay hate crime in the July, 2008 edition of Violence and Victims.
Recipient of the 2008 Diversity Leadership Teaching/Research award presented by the UST office of Institutional Diversity Student Researcher
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Women CJ Alums
 The University of Saint Catherine has a section of their Leaders of the New Millenium program that is specifically for women in the field of criminal justice.  It’s called Women in Public and Private Safety Careers but is designed for those in other criminal justice fields as well.  The Lead Instructor is Stephany Good, a well-known figure in the Minnesota law enforcement community.  The next class begins on November 6 so check it out soon.  There is an information session scheduled for Oct. 15.  More information can be found in the program brochure  at www.stkate.edu/leadership.