While paging through “Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief,” by Rick Riordan, France Aravena, like many other young teens, fell in love with the Percy… Read More
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Words Speak Louder
Louis Porter II, a University of St. Thomas English professor in Dougherty Family College, wants to help tell the stories you don’t otherwise hear. It’s… Read More
Study Abroad in Pandemic
Junior Anna Puhek is studying actuarial science and economics, but at many universities around the world. Puhek currently studies at St. Thomas’ home campus in… Read More
Community Through Youth Empowerment
Getting children to start reading can be a challenge. At the Legacy Family Center, a Brooklyn Park-based nonprofit founded in 2013, organizers are working to… Read More
Spreading Inclusivity Through Leadership
In 1969, six Indian families lived in Mississippi. Rama Kaye Hart’s family, who immigrated to the United States when Hart was 2, was one of… 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
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
Tommie Award Nominee: Mia Laube
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
College Essay: Yes, I am Ecuadorian
“Build the wall, build the wall!” the boy cried out. I was on edge, sitting in my chair and loudly tapping my foot. My old,… Read More
