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VIDEO: Air Force ROTC Cadets March in Honor of POW-MIA Service Members
PhotosThe U.S. Air Force ROTC Detachment 410 and the campus chapter of Arnold Air Society, a national professional and service organization, began its 36th annual Veterans Day vigil Nov. 10 as the temperature dropped. Cadets will march slowly and solemnly near the flagpole in the center of the lower quad on the St. Paul campus…
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School of Education's Leadership Continuity
St. Thomas 2025 - Retain and Attract World-Class TalentExecutive Vice President and Provost Eddy Rojas shared the following in an email to the University of St. Thomas community on Nov. 7, 2022. When an institution goes through significant leadership changes – as St. Thomas has experienced over the past year – a little continuity can feel very comforting. With this in mind, I… -
Angelica Franaschouk: First-gen Student to Student Body President
Humans of St. ThomasOn a busy campus day, you’ll often find Angelica Franaschouk ’23 running from one side of campus to another. As student body president, she often bounds from event to event, juggling a full slate of details, large and small, from room reservations to talking points. No matter where you find Franaschouk, it’s clear she’s perfected… -
Priests for Today: Learning to Minister in Rural America
Faith and MissionOne in four seminarians at The Saint Paul Seminary will end up in a rural parish at some point during his ministry – often with multiple churches and parishioners who are spread out all over the countryside. Each August, the seminary partners with Catholic Rural Life to give men in formation a taste of this… -
Transferring to St. Thomas for Exercise Science
Health & EducationAfter attending Johns Hopkins University, her “dream school,” for a year, Ally Starks ’25 decided that a change of pace was in order. Burnt out, the Bloomington, Minnesota, native took a year off to focus on her mental health and coach volleyball. She switched from studying pre-med molecular and cellular biology at Johns Hopkins to… -
First-Year Student Joins Inaugural New York Times Corps
Humans of St. ThomasFirst-year student Gwynnevere Vang is an inaugural member of The New York Times Corps, the newspaper's yearlong mentor program for aspiring college journalists from underrepresented groups. Vang is one of two ThreeSixty Journalism alumnae, along with Faaya Adem, to be selected. In addition to being a first-year student, Vang is a second-generation Hmong woman and… -
Tales from the Archives: Bygone Homecoming Traditions
People & CultureHomecoming Week recalls crisp autumn days and traditions like parades, pep rallies and the big football game. But the first St. Thomas homecoming on May 21, 1918, featured a luncheon and a baseball game against Macalester College. What other homecoming traditions have been changed and lost over the years? One tradition lost to the past… -
A Numbers Guy Doing Good: David Juran Joins St. Thomas Board of Trustees
People & CultureWhen David Juran kicked off his college career in 1985, he moved into a University of St. Thomas icon, Ireland Hall. Back at its grand opening in 1912, Ireland Hall featured the latest in technologies – including "lighted electricity.” By the time Juran moved in, however, the building wasn’t exactly at the top of its… -
Summer Extern: Tanner Larson, Office of the Minnesota Attorney General
Business & LawExternships offer law students the opportunity to have hands-on experiences with the law. To move them from studying it in a classroom to practicing it in a legal setting, such as a corporation, nonprofit, government agency or within the court system. Tanner Larson, a second-year law student, had the chance this summer to build his… -
Hispanic Heritage Month: Elevating Stories With Lorena Armstrong-Duarte
Humans of St. Thomas“I think of myself as a storyteller. I am here to help the university and the president tell their story.” That is how Lorena Armstrong-Duarte, communications and constituent relations manager for the Office of the President, defines her role at St. Thomas. Armstrong-Duarte assumed her role at the University of St. Thomas one year ago,…