The University of St. Thomas celebrated the official opening of the Schoenecker Center with a dedication ceremony on the center’s exterior terrace on Wednesday. Meanwhile, protestors gathered at the intersection of Summit and Cretin Avenues in opposition to the construction of the Lee and Penny Anderson Arena. AP Wire CME Kevin Lynch, Reporter Juan Del Valle and Managing Editor Owen Larson have the story.
Marty Fisher asks whether the Schoenecker Center and the Lee and Penny Anderson Ice Arena will shift the “heart of campus” to South Campus.
St. Thomas students and faculty received a Timely Warning email from Public Safety on Tuesday afternoon providing information on a string of burglaries that recently occurred on campus.
The Schoenecker Center, which serves as the University of St Thomas’ new home for its science, technical, engineering, arts and math fields, opened its doors for classes on Monday, Feb. 5. The complex, which cost over 100 million dollars, features new facilities for integrative STEAM studies, including geology, multimedia, robotics and music. Kevin Lynch has the story.
Alexei Navalny died in prison Friday. Both a Minnesota man testing a snowmobile for his employer in the Alaska backcountry and the company have been cited for reckless driving after the machine slammed into a sled dog team. St. Thomas Grace Hall residents expressed frustration after the construction suddenly diverted walking paths to the dorm Tuesday morning. Sports CME Adam Mueller has today’s News in :90.
Adidas has ended its partnership with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West over antisemitic remarks, a Russian court rejected an appeal by U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner and construction on the University of St. Thomas campus continued through the fall semester. Macy Berendsen has today’s News in :90.
Reporter Gwynnevere Vang updates readers on current campus construction happening at St. Thomas.
The University of St. Thomas broke ground on the Schoenecker Center Thursday, as the university plans to open the 130,000-square-foot-plus building in the spring of 2024.
St. Thomas is offering $61.4 million to purchase the nearby Town & Country Club golf course in an attempt to upgrade athletic facilities, the university’s Executive Budget Committee announced during a virtual town hall Monday.
St. Thomas President Julie Sullivan announced the renaming of the Tommie East residence hall on campus to Frey Hall in a virtual State of the University address Tuesday.
With nearly two-dozen new buildings since the turn of the century, the modern St. Thomas campus, which spans two cities, bears little resemblance to the one building Archbishop John Ireland founded the school on in 1885, but as one walks through campus, they can almost see the past two hundred years roll by.
McNeely Hall welcomed voters this past Election Day and the Center for Well-Being restructured some of their roles to expand inclusivity. Join anchors Andrés Tejeda and Natalie Hoepner for the latest on those and more on Top Stories.
The name of the new St. Thomas STEAM building was announced, a body found along an interstate was identified as a missing girl, and two reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd. Josephine (Lopez) Otieno has the story.
Eight people died at an Astroworld Music Festival this weekend in Houston, the Minnesota Department of Transportation installed twelve highway signs recognizing land boundaries with three Ojibwe tribes and construction of the new Schoenecker Center will begin in May 2022. Reporter Sumaii Gemechu has today’s News in :90.
St. Thomas announced the official name and groundbreaking date for its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) complex in a Newsroom email to the St. Thomas community on Thursday, November 4, nearly two years after it introduced the project.
