St. Thomas senior Maria Neuzil received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award this April. Reporter Andrés Tejeda has the story.
St. Thomas senior receives prestigious science award
News in :90 From a Distance – April 23, 2020
Minnesota is partnering with the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic to test as many as 20,000 people per day for COVID-19, more than 4.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, and a St. Thomas biology professor researches how cancer cells spread from tumors into other parts of the body. Advertising and Public Relations Director Alexis Okafor has today’s News in :90 from a distance.
St. Thomas students present summer research findings at national level
This past summer, four Tommies worked together to perform experiments and collect data on something that many of us would not normally think about: meth, its anxiety-inducing properties and its effects on mice. Reporter Mae Macfarlane has the story.
St. Thomas to improve bike-friendliness with student research
A group of graduate students have conducted research in an effort to help St. Thomas improve its bike infrastructure.
Students travel to Jerusalem, present research on poet Gerard Hopkins
After extensively studying Hopkins through a class last spring, the four students presented papers they had written about Hopkins’ poems at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society of Jesus Conference in May in Jerusalem.
St. Thomas students to present at history symposium
Three St. Thomas history students will present their undergraduate research at the Mississippi State University Symposium for Undergraduate Historical Research May 1-3.
Junior receives prestigious research grant
Junior Melanie Kraemer received the Young Scholars Research grant from St. Thomas, which will allow her to spend 10 weeks this summer studying eco-feminism in England.
News in :90 – Nov. 19, 2014
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014.
Hennes authors biography on O’Shaughnessy
Doug Hennes recently released his book “That Great Heart,” a biography on the late St. Thomas alumnus and philanthropist I. A. O’Shaughnessy.
EPA grant funds biology students’ research
The $15,000 grant given this summer allowed biology students to analyze Lake Como, which has an excess amount of phosphorus stored in the lake’s sediment.
St. Thomas raises awareness of carbon-neutral campus
St. Thomas used sUSTainability week to raise awareness about the collective effort to achieve a carbon-neutral campus by 2035.
Stewardship Garden yields produce, research
St. Thomas’ Stewardship Garden started The Helpful Flowers Project this year to test the effect of plant biodiversity on nutrient uptake from the soil.
News in :90 — Oct. 8, 2013
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013.
Professor’s chemistry research used in lenses and beverage cans
From color-changing beer cans to transitioning lenses, one professor’s research helped develop commonly used products.
Aquaponics research helps Haitian orphanage
Biology students are researching how to optimize a food production effort in Haiti, through a sustainable aquatic and plant system.