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Public Health Student From Rwanda Leads With Compassion and Determination
Diversity, Equity and InclusionLeaving home for college is a daunting task for many, but for University of St. Thomas student Blessed Uwase, there was the added layer of crossing continents and adapting to American culture. Uwase, who was raised in Rwanda and is majoring in public health at the Morrison Family College of Health, has carved a leadership…
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2024 Tommie Award Finalists Reflect on Experiences
Humans of St. ThomasAs the Class of 2024 prepares to graduate, the Newsroom asked this year’s Tommie Award finalists to reflect on their time at St. Thomas. Here’s what they had to say. Nguyen ‘Lucky’ Phan ’24 What’s your most memorable moment at St. Thomas? I definitely have had a lot of wonderful memories during my journey at… -
St. Thomas Celebrates Undergraduate Class of 2024 With Senior Days
People & CultureAs the temperature warms and the countdown to summer begins, the University of St. Thomas makes the most of the days left until graduation with Senior Days, a campus tradition for seniors. “Senior Days is a celebratory time to recognize the graduates and get them excited for the last piece of their journey with us,”… -
Tales from the Archives: Senior Send-Off
People & CultureThroughout its history, St. Thomas has hosted an array of events to celebrate its graduating seniors. But the one which may stand out to our alumni is the Senior Send-Off. Originating in 1976, through a collaboration between the student governments of the College of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine, this pre-graduation extravaganza… -
Sophomore Innovates for Global Equity
Humans of St. ThomasRecently winning the University of St. Thomas Business Plan Competition and the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge with her business concept Waste Compo, Beamlak Petros ’26 is certainly thriving as a Tommie. Aiming to alleviate two issues pressing on Ethiopian society – hunger and shortage of fertilizer, her concept received wide-scale attention on a recent… -
School of Engineering’s Software Engineering and Data Science Department Welcomes Jote Taddese as Strategic Advisory Board Chair
STEAMJote Taddese, vice president of software engineering at Optum, has been named the chair of the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering’s Software Engineering and Data Science Department’s Strategic Advisory Board. The school thanks Mike Thyken, the outgoing Department of Software Engineering and Data Science Strategic Advisory Board chair, for his 17 years of… -
WCCO Reporter Pauleen Le to Emcee LDCW Spring Legacy Brunch
Arts & HumanitiesPauleen Le ’11 always wanted to be an astronaut, but after finding out that the profession required a lot of math – something she admits isn’t her strong suit – it was her mother who suggested the award-winning journalist’s current career path. “She told me that I loved to talk and tell stories, so why… -
Faculty Profile: Dr. Ali Ling and Dr. Mingu Kang
People & CultureCourses: Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Introduction to Engineering Student-Faculty Research: Mentoring an undergraduate civil engineering student who will study and analyze data from research done on PFAS concentrations and find links between the compound size and accumulation in the food webs in the Mississippi River to better characterize how much PFAS impacts aquatic life. … -
Selim Center for Lifelong Learning Celebrates 50 Years
University NewsWhen John Wolkerstorfer began taking classes at the Selim Center for Lifelong Learning after retiring in 2000, he never imagined that 24 years later he’d be one of the center’s longest-tenured students. The Selim Center for Lifelong Learning, housed at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, is celebrating its 50th year of service to… -
St. Thomas Day Elevates Work of Seven Outstanding Tommies
People & CultureTommies everywhere seek to inspire change as they live and extend the St. Thomas mission. With approximately 120,000 alumni worldwide, that’s a huge impact. The University of St. Thomas elevates their extraordinary contributions at the annual St. Thomas Day celebration. Held this year on April 24, seven exemplary individuals – students, faculty and alumni –…