St. Thomas’ Innovation and Technology Services added several vintage sports clips to the library’s digital archives this spring, allowing current Tommies to take a step into the past and watch former athletes compete.
As the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic has come and gone, COVID-19 regulations have eased up across the United States and St. Thomas’ campus. However, one thing has remained constant throughout the pandemic: many U.S. citizens’ mistrust in science.
The Undergraduate Student Government amended three USG bylaws during its March 17 general council meeting at Scooter’s. Guests Executive Vice President and Provost Eddy Rojas and Dean of the Morrison Family College of Health MayKao Hang spoke at the meeting and finances were reviewed.
Amid several construction projects on a changing St. Thomas campus, the lack of parking has affected many students’ daily lives, especially commuter students, leading some to “regret buying a pass at all.”
St. Thomas class of 1952 alum Gene Frey donated $15 million to the university, which will help students afford St. Thomas’ two-year residency requirement.
St. Thomas approved six new locations around campus to serve liquor, allowing those over 21 to be served alcohol at 26 spots on campus during some events.
The World Press Institute will resume its 57th annual journalism fellowship program on March 18, which will house journalists at St. Thomas for three weeks before the fellows travel around the United States, ending May 21.
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the Luann Dummer Center for Women hosted author Leslie Jamison in the O’Shaughnessy Education Center auditorium on Tuesday, March 8. Jamison’s lecture and Q&A session consisted of comprehensive reflections of women and the pandemic.
St. Thomas’ Luann Dummer Center for Women hosted Leslie Jamison, an acclaimed author and novelist, March 8.
St. Thomas launched its most recent installment of the 2025 Strategic Plan on Feb. 2: the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center.
St. Thomas President Julie Sullivan announced March 1 she’d be stepping down from her position, putting School of Law Dean Rob Vischer into the interim president role starting June 1 and igniting a nationwide search for a new head of the university.
St. Thomas emerging media department staff member Batoyun “Oyuna” Uranchimeg could never have imagined competing for Team USA in Beijing.
After data from the fall 2021 semester showed that 51% of waste on St. Thomas’ campus wasn’t sorted correctly, the university decided to participate in the Campus Race to Zero Waste, a nationwide competition between colleges and universities to see who can have the largest waste reduction from Jan. 30 to March 26.
The View held a dinner event Tuesday in honor of Mardi Gras and the beginning of Lent that included Creole and Cajun-inspired dishes such as catfish po boy sandwiches, pork jambalaya and hushpuppies.
St. Thomas Campus Ministry and the Office for Mission held an ecumenical prayer Friday for peace and justice in Ukraine. Theology professor Paul Gavrilyuk, who is Ukrainian, spoke before the prayer, describing President Vladimir Putin’s words as “straight from Hitler’s playbook.”
