St. Thomas students and their professor have designed the first portable biodiesel production system, which can fit in the back of a pickup truck.
“Other companies were trying to get this done and we got it done in a year before they did,” said graduate student John Gorman, who worked on the system last year.
This is News in :90 for Oct. 23, 2009.
The surveys have been scrutinized, the results are in and St. Thomas’ law school can be found near the top of the heap in the Princeton Review’s “Best Quality of Life” category yet again.
Author Ron Hansen spoke at St. Thomas Thursday night about his newest novel “Exiles,” which tells the story of 19th-century poet and priest Gerard Hopkins and the tragic shipwreck which inspired one of Hopkins’ poems.
This year’s intramural football league wanted to include more than just men, so a co-ed division was created in the traditionally male sport.
Friends Julia Brandes and Ellen Traynor are some of the women taking advantage of the first year of co-ed intramural football. And these women are no strangers to the game of football.
“My dad taught me how to play football a long time ago,” Brandes said.
In this week’s edition of ‘Connected.’, H1N1 cases continue to climb at St. Thomas, engineering department constructs new bio-diesel system, St. Thomas hosts the Opus Prize ceremony in November, intramural football gets new players, and a Tommie sailer qualifies for national competition.
[slidepress gallery=’nin-10.22.09′] This is News in :90 for Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
The emergence and popularity of social media and blogs is difficult to ignore. In August, the New York Times reported that at least once a month, four out of five adults use social media, such as blogs, social networks and review sites in some form.
While cigarettes hog the limelight, college students find a different way to get their nicotine fix: smokeless tobacco.
In 2000, Tracy Ertl made a trip to Rome for a special purpose. Throughout her childhood she had lived in a broken, disruptive home; a home where she was a victim of sexual abuse by her own father.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.
The Rev. Peter Laird, St. Thomas graduate and faculty member at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, will be the new vicar general and moderator of the curia.
Most college students think a smaller tuition increase is to their benefit. If the St. Thomas Board of Trustees gets its way, that may be the case for the 2010-2011 school year.
