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Senior Athletics Director Amy Cooper Receives Courage Award
Professional NotesAmy Cooper, University of St. Thomas senior athletic director and women’s administrator received the 2025 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award and was celebrated with other recipients on Feb. 5 at the Minnesota History Center. The award is given to a woman athlete who overcame adversity and exhibits extraordinary courage in their athletic performance. Cooper’s sports career…
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Dr. Yohuru Williams Has Powerful Conversation on PBS with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Professional NotesDr. Yohuru Williams, distinguished University Chair and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas, recently appeared in the PBS documentary Great Migrations: A People on the Move, hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. The four-part series explores the African American migration experience, examining how migration has shaped the… -
School of Law Mentor Externship Recognized as Bloomberg Innovation Program
Law Professional NotesThe University of St. Thomas School of Law has been recognized as one of the nation’s top schools for career resilience. Bloomberg Law named the school’s Mentor Externship Program among just 10 academic programs that are pioneering educational innovations that benefit their students, their schools and the legal field. “Bloomberg Law is pleased to recognize… -
Opus College of Business Staff Recognized for Community Entrepreneurship Program
Professional NotesDiane Paterson, director of the Small Business Development Center at Opus College of Business, and Barbra Olson, assistant director of the Small Business Development Center, received the 2025 USASBE Model Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator/Incubator Award from the United States of Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) for their Community Entrepreneurship Program. The Community Entrepreneurship Program is… -
Manjeet Rege Testifies at Minnesota Senate Labor Committee on the Impact of AI
Professional NotesDr. Manjeet Rege, professor and chair of the Department of Software Engineering and Data Science at the University of St. Thomas, testified before the Minnesota Senate Labor Committee’s informational hearing on the impact of AI. In his testimony, Rege spoke about how AI is reshaping the labor market and how this could have both positive… -
Philosophy Professor Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Professional NotesDr. Gloria Frost, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year. Her project is called “Divine and Created Causation in Medieval Philosophy” and will culminate in a book about medieval debates about how God’s causation of… -
Dr. Aura Wharton-Beck's Dissertation Research on WWII 'Government Girls' Featured in D.C. Video
Professional NotesDr. Aura Wharton-Beck, associate professor in the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas, was mentioned in an EntertainDC video on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The video described Wharton-Beck’s dissertation on “government girls,” who were African American women working for the federal government during World War II. “The purpose of my research is to… -
Fantasy Football: Play, Ethics and the Good Life
Professional NotesIs fantasy football part of the good life, is it just a colossal waste of time – or worse? This is the question Professor Christopher Wong Michaelson asks himself every fantasy football season. The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership has released a new podcast episode on the “Work in Progress with… -
Ethics and Business Law Faculty Member to Serve as Judge for International Sports Law Competition
Professional NotesOpus College of Business Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Business Law Dr. John Wendt has been selected to serve as a Judge for the international Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM). The SLAM is a world-class competition with the aim to promote greater knowledge of the values and rules of international sports arbitration, the go-to dispute… -
Dr. Yohuru Williams Reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy for a New Generation
Racial Justice InitiativeThe founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at St. Thomas, Dr. Yohuru Williams, was the emcee for the 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration for the state of Minnesota. The “One Dream, One Minnesota” event was held at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul. Williams, a Distinguished University Chair…