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Five Benefits of Student Research
University NewsResearch can help undergraduates transform from students into scholars.
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Professional Notes for Oct. 4, 2017
This week's professional notes include Jean Bongila, Jay Ebben, Hans Gustafson, Mike Klein, Avinash Malshe, Manjeet Rege, and Christian D. Washburn; staff Damon Shoholm; and student Dan Yarmoluk -
Studying Selfie Culture
University NewsShannon Twiss '17 researched how participating in "selfie culture" played into young women's understanding of their own identities. -
Class of '17 in the Spotlight
University NewsIn the ranks of seniors graduating this weekend, we have students who earned the Chief’s Award from the City of St. Paul for helping a woman in distress in 2014, a student who served as an ambassador on a Minnesota trade mission to Mexico, and students who have done research on everything from political cynicism to drying breadfruit. Read a roundup of the stories the Newsroom has written about Class of 2017 students since they arrived on campus. -
Tommie Mentors and Mentees: Amy Finnegan and Laura Kvasnicka
University NewsSome guidance on potential research over a J-Term in Tanzania helped spark a years-long mentoring relationship between justice and peace studies assistant professor and department chair Amy Finnegan and senior Laura Kvasnicka. -
More than 1,000 St. Thomas, Other Community Members Pour in for Christianity and Politics Talk
Diversity, Equity and InclusionHundreds of St. Thomas students, faculty and staff, and other community members filled James B. Woulfe Alumni Hall at St. Thomas on Friday to hear Ross Douthat and Dr. Cornel West discuss Christianity and politics in today's United States. -
Tommies Receive Minnesota Campus Compact Awards
Social JusticeFaculty member Amy Finnegan, undergraduate Whitney Oachs and community partner Otis Zanders have been awarded Minnesota Campus Compact Awards, distinctions they will be recognized for on campus April 5. -
Professional Notes for March 10, 2017
University NewsThis week's notes feature faculty Catherine Deavel, David Deavel, Hans Gustafson, J. Thomas Ippoliti, Len Jennings, Mike Klein, Don LaMagdeleine, Suzanne Schons, Ivancica Schrunk, Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan and John Wendt; staff member Dana Peterson; and alumna/former staff member Deb DeMeester. -
Conducting Research on How We Learn About the Civil Rights Movement
University NewsThrough the Excel! Research Scholars Program, junior Divine Zheng examined whether states that are rated as having robust and comprehensive content standards in regard to the civil rights movement actually wind up with more comprehensive textbooks. -
Archbishop of Indianapolis to Discuss the Polemic Around Refugee Resettlement in Lecture Here Oct. 24
University NewsHis talk is the Annual Lecture of the university’s Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship.