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Welcome to St. Thomas Magazine Spring 2025
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Dear St. Thomas community,
In this spring edition of St. Thomas Magazine, we are celebrating.
We're celebrating 25 years since the commitment to build the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship on our Minneapolis campus. In 2024, the Schulze School was ranked No. 2 among the nation's Catholic universities and colleges for entrepreneurship, according to The Princeton Review. Benefactor Dick Schulze, founder of Best Buy, says he won't rest until it's No. 1 among all schools.
We're also celebrating 25 years of the Bernardi Campus in Rome, a place that has transformed the study abroad experience for hundreds of Tommies.
Additionally, more than 20 years after St. Thomas began recruiting students from Uganda, you'll read about how our alumni are making a difference in their home country through ongoing collaboration with St. Thomas faculty.
Our student-athletes are also giving us plenty of reasons to cheer. Since making the historic leap to Division I, they've shown grit, growth and Tommie pride. Their achievements have been nothing short of remarkable. Don't miss our story highlighting our men's and women's basketball teams. It's shaping up to be quite a historic year.
We hope you enjoy this digital edition of St. Thomas Magazine. |
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Better Than Best: How Dick Schulze's Pursuit of Excellence Fuels Entrepreneurship for All
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Having celebrated his 84th birthday this year, Best Buy founder Richard "Dick" Schulze is living his best life. The former retail CEO and now chairman emeritus spends about a week each month at his 380-acre Caribbean resort on the island of Anguilla. But he is not there to vacation with white sugar sand between his…
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On Reaching the Summit With Tommie Basketball
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Photos highlight a phenomenal season for the men's and women's basketball teams, while a video captures the men's team as they were leaving Schoenecker Arena for the last time to making their first Division I conference championship game. In this post, get a behind-the-scenes look at the most memorable D-I run for Tommies, signaling progress in their path to make noise on the national stage for years to come. Roll Toms!
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A Home in Rome: Celebrating 25 Years of the Bernardi Campus
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Nestled along the banks of the Tiber River in the heart of Rome sits the Bernardi Campus of the University of St. Thomas. Acquired by the Minnesota university in November 1999, the campus was named in honor of Antonio and Cecilia Bernardi, parents and grandparents of St. Thomas alumni, including Luigi Bernardi '85, '89 MBA.…
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Transforming Uganda: Tommie Alumni Lead Change in Home Country
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At first glance, the Tafari interlocking block looks a lot like a giant Lego brick. Inventor Brian Osende '10, '11 MS designed the block with studs on top and tubes on the inside – just like the insanely popular Danish toy. But this modern variation is hardly child's play. Instead, the pioneering building block could…
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More Articles: In Case You Missed It
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Standing in Her Power: Trustee Anne Sempowski Ward
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Anne Sempowski Ward has never stayed in one lane. A mechanical engineer by training, she pivoted into brand strategy, turned around legacy businesses, broke barriers in corporate boardrooms and even became a minority owner of a WNBA team. She did all this while holding true to her personal mantra: Take a leap. "I always say,…
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Watch: Iconic Minnesota Stone Quarried for Lee & Penny Anderson Arena
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Five floors from the ground – and in the middle of winter – a small army of stonemasons are hard at work on the exterior of the under-construction Lee & Penny Anderson Arena. Affectionately known as "brickies," these skilled workers are giving the rising University of St. Thomas landmark its signature look. On this particular…
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Engineering Peace: Fulbright-Hays Scholar Inspires Next Generation of Tommie Engineers
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It was an ambitious project for a budding oil engineer in Nigeria. Obasesam Okoi – just weeks out of college then – had been tasked with performing a topographical land survey of an oil mining site. His technical training in civil engineering had provided ample schooling for the assignment, but this new grad quickly realized…
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Do You Know Any Incredible Tommies?
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There are many incredible Tommies at St. Thomas. Whether they are current faculty, staff, students or alumni, if you know an Incredible Tommie we should feature in a future edition, use this form to recommend them. We especially are interested in individuals who have significantly transformed communities and the world at large.
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Know of anything or anyone interesting around the university that would make for a good Newsroom feature story? Let us know at news@stthomas.edu.
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