Tuition Remission Opens Up Options For Employees, Families
Benefits can be powerful incentive and retention tools for any business. College and universities are no exception, and they have the unique ability to extend their own educational services as a...
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How a Psychology Professor and a Wellness Director Just Might Put Alarm-Clock...
Getting plenty of sleep is a good thing. No, we’re not kidding. If you wake up because your body had enough rest … and not because you heard the alarm clock … you are doing it right.That’s the message...
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Dr. Todd Lawrence Earns 2016 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award
The Center for Global and Local Engagement (GALE) Office of Sustainability Initiatives (OSI) has awarded Dr. Todd Lawrence, Department of English, the 2016 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award...
View ArticleFaculty Offer ‘Flipped Classrooms’ – An Idea They Learned in the Open...
To help professors keep up with a changing educational environment, the Center for Faculty Development (FDC) fosters strong communication among professors through the Open Classroom Project.The Open...
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Abraham Wins Friend of the Planet Award From National Center for Science...
John AbrahamJohn Abraham, Ph.D., a professor of thermal sciences in the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering and the university’s 2016 Professor of the Year, has received a Friend of the...
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Beyond the Field of View
James Silas Rogers ’99 M.A. (Photos by Mike Ekern ’02)Not long ago, I went to an event where literary and minor celebrities gathered together to present awards to other writers. They dutifully read off...
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Bridge Game
They eye each other warily as they pick up their cards, sorting them by suit and wondering what sits in the other hands. One player purses her lips, another sighs, a third gets a crinkle of a grin and...
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Justice and Mercy: Mark Osler’s Fight for Clemency Reform
The scene: a briefing room at the White House. Date: March 31, 2016.The audience: a diverse group of administration officials, attorneys, human rights activists and former prisoners who had received...
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Life on The New York Times Best Sellers List
Nathan Hill sits at a table in front of the Anderson Student Center in a black T-shirt and sunglasses. It’s just after noon in early September on a sunny Sunday, and Hill is struggling to find the...
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The Lone Voice: Professor Teresa Stanton Collett
Professor Teresa Stanton Collett remembers reading Roe v. Wade in her Constitutional Law class at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. As a first-year student with a 9-month- old baby, the case...
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Professional Notes for Oct. 3, 2016
Stephen BrookfieldDr. Stephen Brookfield, Department of Leadership, Policy and Administration, College of Education, Leadership and Counseling, announces that his new book, co-authored with Stephen...
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Humans of St. Thomas: Peter Southard
Let’s hear it for the storeroom.Plenty of the usual locations rightfully get credit for facilitating magical moments where someone connects with something from the past: the greedy attic, that...
View ArticleOffice of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development Center Award Competitive...
The Office of Academic Affairs and the Center for Faculty Development recently awarded two of their highest honors to four St. Thomas faculty members. Dr. Avinash Malshe and Dr. Gerald Schlabach each...
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Chris Kachian: The Human Meaning of Music (Audio)
Much has changed throughout human history, but one constant is our affinity for music. Why is it that something with no definitive evolutionary value has managed to remain such an important focus of...
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An Observer of the Kingdom of Deadly Animals
Gordon Grice likes celebrating nature. He also likes sharing all the ways it could potentially kill us. As he is apt to point out, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive.“I try to write beautifully...
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Twenty Employees Inducted Into the Quarter Century Club
Twenty employees of the University of St. Thomas were inducted into the Quarter Century Club Wednesday, Nov. 9, celebrating their 25 years of service to St. Thomas.Dr. Julie Sullivan, president of the...
View ArticleMark Neuzil: Telling Mother Nature’s Story (Audio)
Communication and Journalism professor Mark Neuzil has covered and written about the environment – and taught students to do the same – for decades. How do you go about telling the story of a subject...
View ArticleList of Lists: Top 10 Texts on Human Rights
This entry was curated by Kanishka Chowdhury, professor of English and director of the American culture and difference minor.Some notion of human rights can be traced as far back as the Hammurabi Code...
View ArticleList of Lists: Top 10 American Speeches
This entry was curated by George Woytanowitz, an adjunct faculty member in the St. Thomas History Department since 1985. He specializes in U.S. political and intellectual history, as well as the...
View ArticleFather Michael Joncas, Two Alumni Receive Pax Christi Award
This June, Saint John’s Abbey and University will bestow its highest award, the Pax Christi Award, to Father Michael Joncas, University of St. Thomas artist-in-residence and a fellow in the Center for...
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