Several St. Thomas teams are preparing for important away games this weekend. The women’s basketball team will compete in the Sweet 16 in Chicago, and some track and field athletes will head to nationals in Grinnell, Iowa.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
St. Thomas Chamber Singers will perform a piece a Mexican composer Jorge Cozatl wrote for the choir’s March 9 and 10 concert at Orchestra Hall. He has been working with the choir since October on a piece title “Pasar la Vida.” Listen to the song here.
Senior Solome Tibebu is the founder of Cognific, a service-based software that will offer mental health “homework” in a gaming format for young adult patients, as well as an analytics platform for psychotherapists.
The new 200-level entrepreneurship class provides hands-on experience for students and capstone course mentors.
Home-schooled students who now attend St. Thomas tend to perform at a higher level than traditionally educated students, according to a study by Michael Cogan, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness.
This is News in :90 for Friday, March 2, 2012.
Junior Jesse Stock’s passion for bowling has turned into a new Bowling Club at St. Thomas. It officially started last semester, with its first and only meeting over January term.
After almost six weeks without a Flynn Hall Area Director, Residence Life has hired former Indiana University Residence Coordinator Erin Whipkey.
The St. Thomas English department hoped to end student complaints by introducing a new core curriculum in the fall of 2011. The main change is how the literature is presented.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
A study by the Pew Research Center found that interracial marriage is on the rise and so is its acceptance. Students on campus in interracial relationships also talk about the challenges and respond to the research.
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.
St. Thomas graduate Jeff Sevaldson and senior Joey Nesbitt started their own business last year called iW Drums, which creates affordable LED light kits that can be installed inside a drum set.
This is News in :90 for Monday, Feb. 27, 2012.
