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Podcast Series Examines Work Fulfillment Across Careers
Business & LawThe Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership has released a new three-part series on the “Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson” podcast. The new series, titled “Is Your Work Worth It?” is a set of interviews with three people who appear in Michaelson’s new book, Is Your Work Worth It? Each…
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Dr. Obasesam Okoi Selected for Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Program
Professional NotesDr. Obasesam Okoi, an assistant professor in the Justice and Society Studies Department at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, has been selected as one of 12 American educators to participate in a fully funded Fulbright-Hays Faculty Summer Program in Tanzania. The program is facilitated by the School for International Training (SIT) and supported… -
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. … -
Earth, Environment and Society Professor Is a 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Scholar
STEAMDr. Thomas Hickson, a professor in the Department of Earth, Environment and Society in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in geology to Spain for the 2024-25 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Hickson will be working at the… -
Education Professor Gives Talks; Signs Books at AERA Conference
People & CultureDr. Chelda Smith Kondo chaired and facilitated five talks at the American Educational Research Association annual conference in Philadelphia in April. There, the associate professor of education at the University of St. Thomas also held the first book signing for her book Pedagogy of Humanization: Preparing Teachers for Culturally Sustaining Classrooms. The book was released… -
Bringing Native Contributions to the Forefront of U.S. History
ResearchIt was one of the most important commodities ahead of the American Revolution: gunpowder. Brought to North America by white settlers, the earliest known chemical explosive also had a profound effect on Native communities across the continent. Dr. Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, is… -
When Students Become the Teachers, Everyone Learns
Tommie ExpertsA traditional college professor is a “sage on the stage,” which is a wise scholar who imparts the necessary knowledge – usually via a “chalk and talk” lecture – for their students to transform into competent professionals and well-rounded human beings. At the University of St. Thomas, faculty lean toward being a “guide on the… -
School of Engineering Student-Faculty Research
ResearchRyan Kappes (Civil Engineering ’25) With Dr. Ali Ling Characterizing How PFAS Move Through Aquatic Food Webs in the Mississippi River RESEARCH ROLE: my role is to analyze data from research done on PFAS concentrations and find links between the compound size and accumulation in the food web to better characterize how much PFAS impacts… -
The Future of Persistent ‘Forever’ Chemicals
Tommie ExpertsImagine a group of chemicals so useful they’re in everything from your phone to your clothes, but they never break down and could be harming your health for generations. These chemicals do exist and there is not enough money in the world to remove them from the environment as fast as they are being added. Per-… -
Podcast Series Explores Finding Purpose After College
Business & LawThe “Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson” podcast recently recorded a four-part series titled “In Search of Careers and the Common Good,” which includes candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore. “One thing I often say to (my students) is that if they’re only in college to…