Tommie Award nominee Mia Laube, of the class of 2022, grew up in Marion, Iowa, where she developed her love for basketball and journalism. Her… Read More
Tommie Award Nominee: Mia Laube
Tag Archives: Changemakers
St. Thomas to Rome
Rhynn Paulsen returned from a study-abroad trip to Rome, which she called a transformative experience, in mid-December. Originally, Paulsen chose to be a biology major,… Read More
COVID Doesn’t Stop Travel
Graduating high school and going off to college in the middle of a pandemic is scary enough for most students, but Ben Thomas has a… Read More
Leading DEI Reform
Following numerous incidents of racism over the past few years at the University of St. Thomas, Kevin Henderson has seen an opportunity to do more… Read More
Communication Through a Different Lens
Xiaowen Guan is nothing less than an eclectic individual. From China to the United States, interpreter to parent, she works at the University of St…. Read More
‘Lift As You Climb’
Starr Sage has many passions in life, but all of them are about leaving the world a better place. From education to public health, diversity… Read More
Their Mission: Telling Untold Stories
St. Thomas professors Kari Zimmerman and Paola Ehrmantraut created Walking Together, a digital research hub studying immigration, migration and displacement in Minnesota. Zimmerman, an associate… Read More
Tommie Award Nominee Takes on Challenges
When Pam Savira found out about her Tommie Award nomination — an award that recognizes students in their senior year for leadership, academics and campus… Read More
Engineering ‘Good’
What qualifies as good? Dagmawe Mamo, a mechanical engineer who graduated from the University of St. Thomas, believes “good” comes from being holistic. As an… Read More
Comics More Than Just Stories
By Fatima Abdurahman and Allison Brodin Verdis Webb IV was a soon-to-be first-year student at Dougherty Family College when he started his first day of… Read More
