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Smooth Operation: Engineering Professor, Student Study Peanut Grinder for Local Nonprofit
University NewsSchool of Engineering professor Dr. Jim Ellingson and junior Noel Naughton spent the summer grinding 25 pounds of peanuts in a project that aims to help small farmers in developing nations produce food more efficiently.
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Dr. Camille George Engineers the Future of Breadfruit
University NewsDr. Camille George of St. Thomas' School of Engineering is helping to revolutionize the way breadfruit is incorporated into the livelihoods of people in developing nations. Last month she travelled to Kauai, Hawaii, to install a breadfruit-drying device she co-designed with adjunct engineering professor Bob Bach for the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. -
Graduate Programs in Software Offers New Mini Master of Mobile Technology
University NewsWith apps, smart phones, and point of purchase sales, mobile technology is quickly becoming one of the hottest topics in business today. -
An Apiarist's Sweet Summer
University NewsSt. Thomas junior Matthew Schmidtbauer is an electrical engineering student with aspirations of someday working for a high-performance electric car manufacturing company. The subjects of his pastime, however, are not motors or revolutions per minute, but tens of thousands of honeybees that he cares for each summer. -
School of Engineering Students Leading Robotics Research at St. Thomas
University NewsSenior Ryan Delaney, junior Nate Webster and sophomore Mitch Hoffmann have been working as a team on the “TurtleBot” since early June. -
Waiting for Lightning to Strike in Kitembe
Sustainability & EnvironmentBrian Osende '10 B.S.M.E., '11 M.S. returns to Uganda and brings light to his grandparents' village for the first time -
Reason for Hope
University NewsKAMPALA, UGANDA - The miracle workers are busy here these days. In a former retail storefront on a rut-filled dirt road in Ndejje, a poverty-stricken area southeast of Kampala, the first Hope Medical Clinic opened in November 2007. The sign outside says "Eddwaliro," Ugandan for "health care," in bold red letters, and 40 to 50 people show up every month or treatment of malaria, typhoid fever and the flu. -
Out of Africa
Degrees in hand, Ugandan students seek to make an impact in our world -
Interdisciplinary Studies: Creation and the New Cosmology
Faith and MissionRobert Spitzer, S.J., philosopher of science, former president of Gonzaga University and founder of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, visited the Center for Catholic Studies as the result of a remarkable spirit of cooperation among five departments at the University of St. Thomas, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, the Science and… -
Philosopher and Author Father Robert Spitzer to Speak on 'Creation and the New Cosmology' Wednesday
He will present and take questions on developments in physics and mathematics on Creation, the "Big Bang Theory," and the complementarity between new physics, philosophy and theology.