by Zoraida Pastor This semester St. Thomas University had its inaugural poetry festival that culminated in a college-wide poetry contest. The festival began by giving students a “poem in (their) pocket.” Students received poems in scrolls, and they learned about upcoming dates and events. The poetry festival ran from April 15 until April 18, 2024. […]
MIAMI GARDENS, FL – Thanks to more than 1,100 donors who collectively contributed nearly $180,000, the annual “Show Your Love for Bobcat Athletics” giving campaign to benefit the St. Thomas University Department of Athletics shattered previous record highs. “Our ‘Show Your Love’ giving day has quickly become a popular and unifying tradition for our athletics […]
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera and Adriana Montoya, students in the LL.M. Program in Intercultural Human Rights, participated in the Inaugural Summit of Hispanic Voices United for Human Rights and Against Human Trafficking, organized by and convened at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), on March 11-12, 2024, in Washington D.C. The Summit was […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Breaking curfew Talking back. Perhaps a fib or two. As a kid, Valentina Grizales watched her two younger siblings occasionally get in trouble with their parents. Grizales would always come to the aid of her brother, Sebastian Arenas, and her sister, Sofia Arenas. “I have a fiery personality,” Grizales […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Kevin Paez has heard all about the power of a great internship. After all, Scott Gale – Paez’s professor and mentor at STU — was once an intern in the White House with an office right below that of Vice President Dick Cheney. Now, just over two decades later, […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU All we do is win, win, win – no matter what. Every time we step up in the building, everybody’s hands go up! With apologies to Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Ludacris, and T-Pain, it was “Winning Time” at St. Thomas University on Saturday. Yes, Saturday at 10 a.m. was […]
On Friday, November 3, 2023, an extraordinary event took place at St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law: the launching of a book of essays, which a United Nations dignitary called “an exceptional piece of legal work that places the law in its largest strategic context,” titled Human Flourishing: The End of Law: Essays in Honor of Siegfried Wiessner — a Festschrift celebrating Professor Wiessner’s lifetime work at the occasion of his 70th birthday. Dr. Roza Pati hosted and coordinated this event with unequalled focus on substance, inclusion, elegance and style.
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Innovative. Unexpected. Chaotic. Beautiful. Those are words St. Thomas University’s Director of Vocal Arts Dr. Elizabeth Turner and her students have used to describe “Little Shop of Horrors,” the musical they will perform three times this weekend. Showtimes at Monsignor Pace High School are as follows: Friday and Saturday […]
by Dejon Hadley Tutoring Services Are Available! St. Thomas University has a wide range of services available for students to help in their academic journey. One such service is the S.O.C.R.A.T.E.S tutoring center, located on the 2nd floor of the main library, where you can find a plethora of people to assist you with your […]
BY WALTER VILLA, Special to STU Renown neurosurgeon and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Dr. Benjamin Carson, made his first-ever visit to St. Thomas University last week, leaving his audience with many words of wisdom but perhaps none as thought-provoking as these: “If two people agree about everything,” Carson began, “then one of them isn’t […]
