Students started a soap business for the lemonade stand-inspired project in their entrepreneurship class.
Trio creates soap company for class project
Tommies participate in Undergraduate Communication Research Conference
Communication and journalism majors and minors, along with students from other departments, submitted their research papers from past classes to present their work to a panel of scholars.
Fargo students forgo class to help out flood prep
Hundreds of high school students pitched in Friday to place 100,000 sandbags around Fargo and help protect homes against Red River flooding.
Honor society cuts tuition benefit
Future members of St. Thomas’ Delta Epsilon Sigma chapter will not be able to take advantage tuition benefit that the society will take away for budgetary reasons.
University offers Elementary Chinese course starting fall 2013
Student demand for an Elementary Mandarin Chinese course prompted the languages department to add it in the St. Thomas Undergraduate Catalog starting fall 2013.
US News ranks Mahtomedi best Minnesota high school
U.S. News released its 2013 list of the nation’s best high schools Tuesday and Mahtomedi graduates who attend St. Thomas were pleased to see their alma mater ranked first among Minnesota schools.
Minnesota school district gets bulletproof whiteboards
A Minnesota school district where two students were killed in a 2003 shooting unveiled a new device Tuesday aimed at adding a last-ditch layer of safety for teachers and students: bulletproof whiteboards.
Students and staff gather to read poetry
The 15th annual “Poetry on the Patio” event moved indoors due to snow, but it still drew both students and staff to read their favorite works Tuesday afternoon.
USG makes free New York Times access available to students
The free access has not yet been advertised to students, but former USG president Mike Orth said new USG council members will focus on marketing to students so they might take advantage of the access.
Hasek elected Minnesota College Republicans’ state chair
Junior Andrew Hasek was elected the Minnesota College Republicans’ state chair after members from across the state voted him into the position Saturday evening.
Student band fundraises for new album with Kickstarter campaign
When junior Luke Darger’s band, The Word Party, ran out of money recording its first full-length album, the members pledged to raise $1,000 in a 30-day Kickstarter campaign.
Themed runs show popular among students
According to Rebecca J. Donatelle’s book “My Health: An Outcomes Approach,” more than 68 percent of adults in the United States are considered overweight, and some St. Thomas students are using themed runs as motivation to stay active.
Study shows law grads earn less than double the tuition they paid
St. Thomas School of Law professor Jerry Organ’s study shows that 53.5 percent of law graduates are earning salaries less than two times the tuition they paid for their law degrees.
Manhunt intensifies in Boston; one suspect, officer killed
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area.
Ekpo turns to YouTube for commencement speech
Tommie Award recipient Eyo Ekpo could give his commencement speech on YouTube if NCAA outdoor track and field championship dates conflict with his attendance at the undergraduate ceremony May 25.