By Walter Villa, Special to STU Serving his students. That is what it is all about for Dr. Jose Rocha, who is St. Thomas University Gus Machado College of Business’ MBA program director. Late last month, STU – thanks in large part to Dr. Rocha – hosted a summit for the U.S.-based chambers of commerce […]
BY WALTER VILLA, Special to STU St. Thomas University is making Lucia Battistel’s dream – and surely those of many others — come true. Battistel is one of 18 students – all from STU’s Fashion Merchandising and Design program — who will travel to Italy this spring. The 11-day trip (May 17-28) will start in […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU St. Thomas University’s enrollment department is on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence technology, and “Tony” is a big reason why. One example of what makes STU a pioneer among universities in this field is that the school is using AI for both incoming and outgoing calls. For example, […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Organizers might as well call it the STU Mock Trial Competition. Students from St. Thomas University’s Benjamin L. Crump College of Law traveled to Orlando late last month and won the prestigious Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial competition for the third straight year. This time, however, there was a […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU St. Thomas University’s new on-campus culinary lab – which made its debut recently – is a game-changer for the program. Prior to last fall, students had to take a bus to the Sunny Isles Community Center for their culinary labs. “Due to the traffic, students were an hour late […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Dinez Ceballos delivers in the clutch – as a nurse and as an Emmy Award-winner. Ceballos, a 27-year-old graduate of St. Thomas University’s College of Nursing, was in Orlando on December 7 to receive her Suncoast Emmy. She was one of several nurses who were filmed in the […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Elaine Carbuccia’s grandfather – who was a political prisoner — was sentenced to life in jail by the Fidel Castro regime. After Carbuccia’s grandfather’s sentence was commuted in the 1970s, the family fled to South Florida. That is where Carbuccia went to a public high school, Western. Since age […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Courageous. Intelligent. Innovative. Mina Park is on brand for St. Thomas University, which is all about limitless potential. Park, now 41, was 39 when she – for the first time in her life – left her native South Korea. She made that courageous leap of faith to study at […]
Cameron Williams, the son of educators, spent much of the past two years researching something close to his heart – teacher burnout. Cindia Marra has poured her heart into researching neural regeneration in zebrafish as it pertains to spinal-cord injuries in humans. Karla Perez Vazquez is part of a team of academics who titled their […]
By Walter Villa, Special to STU Two years ago, an adorable four-month-old kitten showed up on Stephanie Tamayo’s doorstep. “People say I adopted her,” Tamayo said of the cat she named Miso. “But, in reality, she adopted me.” Tamayo, a 3L student at St. Thomas University’s Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, has been forever […]