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A bee collects pollen from one of the native flowers that make up the University's Pollinator Path.

Exploring Pollinator Pathways with Walker Art Center

August 18, 2020

Academic News, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, News, Sustainability, Top News

This month, as a way to encourage families to explore the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and learn about plants, gardening and food equity, the Walker Art Center is using pollinator-related bingo cards developed at St. Thomas.

Purple flowers and grass frame the Harpole Memorial Fountain September 13, 2013 as the silhouette of Aquinas Hall looms in the background.

Sergey Berg Earns 2020 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

The Newsroom

May 15, 2020

Academic News, College of Arts and Sciences, For Faculty/Staff, For Students, Front Page, News, Notices, Our Community, Statistics, Sustainability

Sergey Berg is the recipient of the 2020 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award for his work developing and implementing a sustainability theme into the course "Applied Regression Analysis."

Humans of St. Thomas: Stephen ‘Chip’ Spadafora

Amy Carlson Gustafson

March 4, 2020

Academic News, Commentary, Humans of St. Thomas, News, School of Engineering, Top News

Meet Stephen 'Chip' Spadafora, mechanical engineering major, founder of Tommie Outdoors and VISION participant.

Engineering professor Mahmoud Kabalan, center, engages with a student, using equipment related to the new mircogrid research and testing facility in the Facilities and Design Center in St. Paul on January 30, 2020.

St. Thomas Unveils World-class Center for Microgrid Research

Jordan Osterman '11

February 4, 2020

Academic News, Current Students, Faculty, Multimedia, News, Our Community, School of Engineering, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Top News

Now officially operational, the St. Thomas Center for Microgrid Research is one of just a handful of premier research and educational facilities of its kind in North America.

Students Sarah Benoy, Shukrani Nangwala and Mackenzie Stahl talk on the river bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Shadow Falls Park in St. Paul on June 13, 2019.

Second Straight Year: Princeton Review Names St. Thomas to List of Green Colleges

Jordan Osterman '11

October 23, 2019

Front Page, News, Our Community, Sustainability

For a second year in a row, St. Thomas was named a Green College by The Princeton Review.

Portrait of student Emma Smith in the Stewardship Garden on the St. Paul campus.

Humans of St. Thomas: Emma Smith

Angie Vognild

October 22, 2019

Academic News, American Culture and Difference, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science, Humans of St. Thomas, Justice and Peace Studies, News, Sustainability, Top News

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Meet Emma Smith, a senior who has made a huge impact on the future of sustainability.

St. Thomas Launches First Sustainability Strategic Plan

Jordan Osterman '11

September 20, 2019

Academic News, Common Good, Current Students, Faculty, For Faculty/Staff, For Students, News, Notices, Our Community, President's Office, Staff, Sustainability, Top News

For the first time, St. Thomas has a comprehensive strategic plan for sustainability. The plan is the result of 18 months of work.

Trouts, Turfgrass and Treatment: St. Thomas Students, Metropolitan Council Tackle Environmental Challenges

Metropolitan Council

June 26, 2019

Academic News, Biology, Changemaking for the Common Good, College of Arts and Sciences, English, Environmental Science, Justice and Peace Studies, Neuroscience, News, Sustainability, Top News

A partnership between the University of St. Thomas and the Metropolitan Council is benefitting students, the natural environment, and other public spaces. Students are producing solid work for the Council that may, in some cases, result in long-term monetary savings.

Students participate in an Earth Day hackathon to solve environmental challenges in the Entrepreneurship Lab in the Facilities and Design Center on April 26, 2019 in St. Paul. The event was co-presented by the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship, Computer Science Club, School of Engineering, Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers and Entrepreneurship Society.

Earth Day Innovate-a-thon Creates Sustainable Ideas

Jordan Osterman '11

May 1, 2019

Front Page, News, Opus College of Business, School of Engineering, Schulze School of Entrepreneurship, Sustainability

Sustainability week at St. Thomas saw students contributing to many efforts, including many who spent April 26-27 at the Earth Day Innovate-a-thon.

New solar panels on the roof of the Anderson Student Center are shown October 9, 2014.

Q&A With Amir Nadav on Sustainability

The Newsroom

April 17, 2019

Alumni, Front Page, News, Our Community, Sustainability

As we look ahead to Earth Day, we asked Amir Nadav, Assistant Director of Campus Sustainability, to give alumni tips on being more sustainable in their own lives (and teaching our children along the way, too).

Commute to Campus Challenge Underway

Jordan Osterman '11

April 1, 2019

Current Students, Faculty, Front Page, News, Our Community, Staff, Sustainability

The call is out for St. Thomas community members to explore different ways to get to campus.

St. Thomas' Sustainability Week moves off campus Saturday with the annual fall cleanup of the east bank of the Mississippi River. / UST photo by Mike Ekern.

St. Thomas Earns Three Sustainable Marks of Distinction

Angie Vognild

November 11, 2018

Front Page, News, Sustainability, Uncategorized

St. Thomas has been recognized with three climate commitment marks of distinction from Second Nature.

St. Thomas Introduces First Full-time Campus-wide Sustainability Director

Jordan Osterman '11

February 7, 2018

Academic News, Current Students, News, One St. Thomas, Our Community, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Top News, Uncategorized

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The university recently welcomed Amir Nadav as its new assistant director of campus sustainability, a role long-envisioned as a key piece of organizing and coordinating St. Thomas’ growing work in sustainability.

Alice Ready (left), Emma Rinn and Prof. Paul Lorah upload a survey route to their DJI Inspire drone before sending it out to survey the Weaver Dunes. (Photos by Mike Ekern ’02)

Little Drone on the Prairie

Brittany Stojsavljevic

December 4, 2017

2017 Fall, Academic News, College of Arts and Sciences, Current Students, Faculty, Geography and Environmental Studies, Homepage, News, Our Community, Publications, Research, St. Thomas Magazine, Top News

Geography and environmental studies students Alice Ready and Emma Rinn are experimenting with how drone imagery can support the work of The Nature Conservancy.

Ten Faculty Members Receive Sustainability Grants

St. Thomas Newsroom

July 14, 2017

Academic News, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, English, Opus College of Business, Philosophy, Psychology, School of Engineering, Sustainability, Theology

Awardees will integrate environmental sustainability into their courses by designing new assignments or units for a current course or by developing a new course.

Sustainable Communities Partnership Fosters Real-world Impact

Jordan Osterman '11

June 26, 2017

Academic News, College of Arts and Sciences, Economics, English, Environmental Science, Homepage, News, Research, Sustainability, Top News

The University of St. Thomas Sustainability Communities Partnership pairs courses with city partners to bring real-world impact to the classroom.

A sunflower blooms at the University of St. Thomas Stewardship Garden on south campus on September 22, 2015 in St. Paul.

Pollinator Path Blooms With New Opportunities

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June 7, 2017

Academic News, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Homepage, News, Sustainability, Top News

The St. Thomas Pollinator Path provides food for pollinators and educational opportunities for students and the surrounding community.

Matthew Kim and Monica Hartmann Earn 2017 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

St. Thomas Newsroom

May 12, 2017

Academic News, College of Arts and Sciences, Economics, Faculty, For Faculty/Staff, For Students, Notices, Our Community, Sustainability

Every year the Office of Sustainability Initiatives recognizes a St. Thomas faculty member for innovation and excellence in integrating sustainability into one of their courses.

City of Elk River, a St. Thomas SCP Partner, Wins Award for Innovation in Communities

St. Thomas Newsroom

May 5, 2017

Front Page, News, Sustainability

A University of St. Thomas Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP) partner, the city of Elk River, Minnesota, received the 2017 Outstanding City Partner Award from the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) Network.

Upping the Ante on Urban Agriculture Research

Jordan Osterman '11

April 5, 2017

Academic News, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Current Students, Faculty, Homepage, News, Our Community, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Top News

Biology assistant professor Chip Small, associate professor Adam Kay and their students are primed to contribute some much-needed research to the field of urban agriculture.

St. Thomas Is First in Minnesota Named Changemaker Campus

Jordan Osterman '11

April 4, 2017

Common Good, Homepage, News, Our Community, Social Innovation, Strategic Planning, Top News

The University of St. Thomas has received the distinctive honor of being named a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U, a global consortium working to inspire a culture of social innovation in higher education.

Students Shayna Thostenson, Jack Kellner and Sarah Howe record soil samples in October 2016 at The Nature Conservancy's John E. Williams Preserve. Photo by Noelle Laske '20.

The Plight of the Piping Plover

Paul Lorah, Ph.D., Geography and Environmental Studies Department, and Lisa Lamb, Ph.D., Geology and Environmental Science Program

December 8, 2016

2016 Fall, CAS Spotlight, Publications

Through field research and high-level data analysis, 10 freshmen and two CAS professors will attempt to get to the bottom of the plover’s shrinking habitat as part of the Sustainability Learning-Living Communit...

Leaders In the Field: Global Risk Management in Scandinavia

Peter Young, Ph.D.

July 27, 2016

Commentary

In the arena of global risk leadership—that is, responding constructively to risks with widespread impacts (climate change, for example) —Scandinavian governments and businesses are currently setting the standa...

Dr. Todd Lawrence Earns 2016 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

St. Thomas Newsroom

May 13, 2016

Academic News, Civic Engagement, College of Arts and Sciences, English, Faculty, For Faculty/Staff, For Students, GALE, Notices, Our Community, Sustainability

This award, given every year by the Center for Global and Local Engagement, recognizes one St. Thomas faculty member for innovation and excellence in integrating sustainability into one of his or her courses.

St. Thomas Reviewing Its Sustainability Coordination Process

St. Thomas Newsroom

April 20, 2016

Front Page, News, Sustainability

The Sustainability Committee has been placed on hiatus this academic year while that process happens, but sustainability efforts are still taking place across campus. A new sustainability structure, including a web page that will outline St. Thomas' sustainable efforts, will be introduced in the fall.

Humans of St. Thomas: Emma Kopp

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Humans of St. Thomas: Patrick Roche

Humans of St. Thomas: Stephen ‘Chip’ Spadafora

Humans of St. Thomas: Reggie Wright

Humans of St. Thomas: Hayley Dunning

Humans of St. Thomas: Emma Smith

Rallying Behind Our Students: St. Thomas Responds to COVID-19

When (Not) in Rome: An Oral History of the Decision to Close Bernardi Campus

Zooming into Online Learning

Gertrud von le Fort’s Churchly Imagination

Exploring Pollinator Pathways with Walker Art Center

Sergey Berg Earns 2020 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

Humans of St. Thomas: Stephen ‘Chip’ Spadafora

St. Thomas Unveils World-class Center for Microgrid Research

Second Straight Year: Princeton Review Names St. Thomas to List of Green Colleges

Humans of St. Thomas: Emma Smith

St. Thomas Launches First Sustainability Strategic Plan

Trouts, Turfgrass and Treatment: St. Thomas Students, Metropolitan Council Tackle Environmental Challenges

Earth Day Innovate-a-thon Creates Sustainable Ideas

Q&A With Amir Nadav on Sustainability

Commute to Campus Challenge Underway

St. Thomas Earns Three Sustainable Marks of Distinction

St. Thomas Introduces First Full-time Campus-wide Sustainability Director

Little Drone on the Prairie

Ten Faculty Members Receive Sustainability Grants

Sustainable Communities Partnership Fosters Real-world Impact

Pollinator Path Blooms With New Opportunities

Matthew Kim and Monica Hartmann Earn 2017 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

City of Elk River, a St. Thomas SCP Partner, Wins Award for Innovation in Communities

Upping the Ante on Urban Agriculture Research

St. Thomas Is First in Minnesota Named Changemaker Campus

The Plight of the Piping Plover

Leaders In the Field: Global Risk Management in Scandinavia

Dr. Todd Lawrence Earns 2016 Curricular Innovation in Sustainability Award

St. Thomas Reviewing Its Sustainability Coordination Process

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