Associate Vice President of Principal and Leadership Gifts Joe Plante released the name of the new STEAM building, the Schoenecker Center, at an Undergraduate Student Government general council meeting. This center will highlight the arts offered at St. Thomas.

Plante discussed the design principles for this new building, which include flexible learning spaces, creative collisions and community spaces. The 100 million dollar building will be built using funds from both donors and from the university.

A body found along an interstate in Texas 41 years ago has finally been identified as a 14-year-old girl missing from Minnesota, according to sheriff’s officials.
New DNA technology and forensic genealogy helped investigators track the unidentified remains to a handful of possible relatives.

Investigators eventually determined the remains are those of Sherri Ann Jarvis whose nude body was spotted along the interstate near Huntsville by a trucker in November 1980. The cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation, Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae said at a news conference.

Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

Publishing company Viking announced Wednesday that the book by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, will come out next May, nearly two years to the day of Floyd’s death.

The book expands upon the Post’s six-part series “George Floyd’s America,” winner of a Polk award for justice reporting.

Josephine Otieno can be reached at lopez.otieno@stthomas.edu.