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Rebuilding Ukraine to Save Children, Refugees
Humans of St. ThomasOne St. Thomas professor’s drive to rebuild Ukraine is making a difference. News reports continue to deliver sound bites about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Recent headlines range from CBS’ “Russia pulls mothballed Cold War-era tanks out of deep storage” to Al Jazeera’s “Russia’s war in Ukraine exacts heavy toll on women.” At times, local and…
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Glimpses of Success: In Year 2 of D-I, Tommie Athletics Forges a New Path
AthleticsIt was a scene St. Thomas coaches, student-athletes and fans had dreamed about when the university first announced its historic Division I transition: thousands of people in a world-class arena cheering loudly for the Tommies as the they played in a postseason tournament. Never mind that most of those people weren’t actually St. Thomas fans.… -
Cultivating STEM With DFC Scholars
St. Thomas 2025 - Expand Pathways through the Dougherty Family CollegeYou could almost see the light bulbs flashing. The day’s task for scholars at the brand-new Dougherty Family College STEM Club was to create an LED light, completely from scratch. That meant picking out their own blinking bulbs, prepping battery packs and melting metal joints together with a soldering iron at a temperature of more… -
St. Thomas Students Learn, Network and Connect in the Windy City
St. Thomas 2025Seventeen eager Tommies traded sunscreen and beach towels for padfolios and business suits as they embarked on a Chicago Career Trek during spring break 2023. The group composed of first-year, sophomore and junior students took the Windy City by storm as they networked, toured skyscrapers and learned firsthand about internships and post-graduation opportunities. “Our students… -
Standing on the Shoulders of Visionaries
People & CultureThe School of Engineering owes its success today to the innovative founders. Learn about the individuals who contributed to the longevity and strength of the school. Stephen Nachtsheim While still an undergraduate, Stephen Nachtsheim helped design and propose the Quantitative Methods and Computer Science (QMCS) program at St. Thomas – the first computer science major… -
Where Two or Three Are Gathered: A Homemade Retreat
Faith and MissionONLINE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE As the 2021 Advent season approached, a desire was building within Katie Erickson ’14 to draw closer to Jesus and to go deeper within her Catholic community, which includes former classmates and roommates from her days as a Catholic studies major, as well as her coworkers. While the worst of the COVID-19… -
The Unbearable Sadness of Being Gollum
ONLINE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE Few characters in literature stand out as grotesque, pitiful, and sad as J.R.R. Tolkien’s creature Gollum. The complexity of Gollum’s character is presented in two personae: Sméagol – the once Hobbit-like creature who years ago lived above ground in a community with friends and family; and Gollum, the morally grotesque creature he… -
School of Engineering Faculty Research
ResearchHeather Orser Assistant ProfessorElectrical and Computer Engineering ADVANCING NEUROSCIENCE: ELECTRONICS FOR A BETTER FUTURE What: Improving interactions between the nervous system and electronics to support investigation and treatment of neural diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s, essential tremor, dystonia, incontinence, sleep apnea) while finding ways to improve accessibility with less expensive designs. How: Looking at capabilities of sensing… -
Changing the World One Global Engineering Experience at a Time
STEAMFor most tourists, a visit to the South American Andes wouldn’t be complete without a journey to Peru’s prized Machu Picchu. The former home of the innovative Incas, Machu Picchu is a stunning sight to behold, what with its ancient circular terraces built for farming and breathtaking mountainous views. For University of St. Thomas engineering… -
STEAM Rises: The Building of Schoenecker Center
St. Thomas 2025As the University of St. Thomas crossed the halfway point to opening the 130,000-square-foot Schoenecker Center, its new home for science, technology, arts, engineering and mathematics, the McGough Construction crew and naming donors marked the moment by signing the steel beam that was placed at the highest point on the building. This act, known in…