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NSF Awards $500K for St. Thomas Chemistry Research
Professional NotesCodrina Popescu, PhD, chemistry professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a co-recipient of a prestigious $500,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation to study iron trafficking and regulation in bacteria. The grant supports continued opportunities for undergraduate students to contribute to research at the University of St. Thomas. Popescu, who received…
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Tommie Alumnus Maps Future with Help of a 'Village'
Arts & HumanitiesThere’s a phrase that says “It takes a village” – that an entire community of people helps a child achieve. For Shukrani Nangwala '21, he credits his mother, St. Thomas professors and staff, a family friend and even the university’s Urban Art Mapping Project for opening his eyes to limitless possibilities for his educational and… -
American Museum of Asmat Art Names New Director
Arts & HumanitiesThe University of St. Thomas announced Gretchen Burau '16 MA will serve as director of the American Museum of Asmat Art on its St. Paul campus. The AMAA has one of the largest collections of Asmat art in the country, with almost 3,000 objects. University officials said that Burau has a superb combination of experience… -
A Changemaker From St. Thomas to South Africa
AlumniAs Jake Hodge ’21, a biology major at the University of St. Thomas, approached graduation, he packed up his belongings and prepared for an experience that would make him stand out from his fellow graduates in more ways than one. He wasn’t going back to his home of Brainerd, Minnesota, or anywhere within an 8,000-mile… -
Are New Technologies Keeping Us Stuck in Old Biases?
Diversity, Equity and InclusionTo help assess whether job applicants should be interviewed or not, Amazon generated an algorithm that picked out resumes most similar to the company’s most successful job applicants. Amelia McNamara, PhD, a computer and information science professor at the University of St. Thomas, said this seemingly benign innovation for hiring wasn’t as forward-thinking as it… -
Pioneering Alumna Champions Diversity in Public Service
AlumniSt. Thomas alumna Kelsey Dawson Walton '02, '09 MA likes to flash passersby with a warm, welcoming smile. “That's the kind of thing that I think sometimes can be missing in our world,” she said. “I think when you show humanity then you do open doors in life for yourself.” And some doors have opened… -
13-Year Research Collaboration Explores Untapped Hemingway
Arts & HumanitiesIn the fall of 2009, four University of St. Thomas English students, their professor, and a librarian met in a far corner of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library to begin what would become a 13-year collaboration creating an annotated bibliography on the life and art of the most celebrated American author of the 20th century: Ernest Hemingway. Acclaimed… -
Dease Scholar Maintains Culture With Spanish Major
Diversity, Equity and InclusionWhen Adalí Flores-Mendoza ’23 was attending Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in her birth city of Minneapolis, she thought she’d attend a large college in a big city like Chicago, Los Angeles or New York. But when she started looking closely at schools best suited for her as a first-generation Mexican American, she decided to… -
War Hits Home for Ukrainians at St. Thomas
People & CultureCollege and high school students across America are currently cramming for midterms or preparing for spring break. It’s life as usual for most of them, but for St. Thomas international students Oksana and Bohdan their daily thoughts are with their family and friends they left behind in Ukraine when they came to study in the… -
In the News: Oyuna Uranchimeg and Paralympic Curling
In the NewsOyuna Uranchimeg, an administrative assistant for the Emerging Media Department at St. Thomas, is representing Team USA at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, China. Uranchimeg is a member of the U.S. curling team, and the 2022 Games will be her Olympic debut. Uranchimeg was first introduced to curling in 2016, when she was…