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St. Thomas Expands Nursing Education With New Simulation Lab
Health & EducationTo help meet the growing demand for nurses and the rising trend of home health care, the University of St. Thomas is opening the Susan S. Morrison Learning Center and Simulation Lab in the Schoenecker Center. The 5,500-square-foot lab will provide students with immersive, hands-on learning experiences using patient simulators, virtual-reality technology and realistic clinical…
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Candace Chou: Teaching Humanity in a Digital Age
Humans of St. ThomasWhen people talk about artificial intelligence (AI), they often have the same concerns: Will technology replace human interaction? Will students stop thinking for themselves? What happens when machines become smarter than we are? Those questions are familiar to Dr. Chientzu Candace Chou. As a learning technology expert and professor in the School of Education at… -
What Seoul and Tokyo Taught MBA Students About Digital Transformation
University NewsStanding inside a Uniqlo store in Tokyo, Melissa Rose '27 MBA watched shoppers place baskets of clothing into a self-checkout station. Without scanning a single barcode, every item was instantly identified and totaled in seconds. "What struck me wasn't just the technology itself, but how thoughtfully it was designed around the user experience," said Rose,… -
Engineering Comes to Life in St. Thomas' 3D Visualization Studio
TechnologyA purple virtual car rolled down a slope across a 36-foot curved screen as University of St. Thomas College of Engineering students watched through 3D glasses at the college’s new data visualization studio. The simulation brought to life an inertia car experiment the students had completed earlier in the semester for Professor Michael Hennessey’s 300-level… -
Beyond the Crown: Miss Minnesota Anna Brennan Takes on Media Literacy
Humans of St. ThomasAnna Brennan ’26 grew up as social media was coming of age, shaping how she saw herself and the world around her. Now, the newly crowned Miss Minnesota 2026 is drawing on those experiences and her journalism education at the University of St. Thomas to make media literacy the focus of her statewide platform. “I… -
Real-World Impact: MBA Course Provides Career Benefits in Innovation
University NewsSam Larson ’27 MBA didn’t have to wait until he finished his Master of Business Administration to put what he learned into practice. During a four-week January course at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, he developed an artificial intelligence application his employer is now actively exploring. "Instead of putting in these… -
St. Thomas Expands Nationally Recognized Teacher Residency Program
Humans of St. ThomasNot long ago, Quantell Crawford ’20, ’23 MA faced a difficult choice: give up his job to complete unpaid student teaching or walk away from becoming a teacher altogether. For many would-be educators who can’t afford time away from a paying job, that's where the path ends. Crawford found a different way forward through the… -
Father Nathan Hastings Named St. Thomas Chaplain
Faith and MissionFather Nathan Hastings '15, '20 MDiv will join the University of St. Thomas as a full-time chaplain on Aug. 1. He was ordained to the priesthood after completing formation at the Saint Paul Seminary in 2020. He received his bachelor's degree from St. Thomas while studying at Saint John Vianney Seminary. Hastings was an associate… -
St. Thomas Selects New VP of Strategic Enrollment Management
Professional NotesMinnesota’s largest private university has selected a longtime strategist in student recruitment and enrollment from one of the nation’s leading Catholic institutions as its next enrollment leader. Paul Mueller started at the University of St. Thomas as vice president of strategic enrollment management in July, after more than two decades at the University of Notre… -
St. Thomas Engineering Becomes a College as It Marks 40 Years
University NewsAsked to explain the 40-year history of engineering education at the University of St. Thomas, Don Weinkauf, who has served as Engineering dean since 2008, starts with the unexpected. “We taught our first engineering courses in a strip mall in Chaska,” Weinkauf said from his office overlooking the neatly manicured south quad outside O’Shaughnessy Science…