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04/21/2017 - 11:36am - In honor of Earth Day, the Aquinas College community participated in the second annual We All Live Here Day of Service on April 21. Students, faculty and staff came together to complete projects at the Dominican Sisters Marywood Campus as well as on campus at Aquinas College. Crews worked to...Read more
04/12/2017 - 1:42pm - Greetings, Mary and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very happy Easter. For Christians this day of resurrection is held as the most holy of all days. It is the day that we celebrate hope and the promise of new life. Opportunity and renewal abound throughout every...Read more
04/11/2017 - 5:57am - The Aquinas College Board of Trustees has announced that Dr. Kevin Quinn has been appointed the 8 th president of Aquinas College. President-elect Quinn is currently the dean of the Schneider School of Business and Economics at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. His appointment at Aquinas...Read more
04/10/2017 - 10:17am - By: Miranda Burel '17 “Food is a gift you get to enjoy three times a day,” she says. “It’s necessary and pleasurable, and you’re allowed to be creative with it.” Sherman has worked in the food industry for years, as a ravioli runner, pastry chef, caterer, and numerous other jobs. Now she is...Read more
04/04/2017 - 12:17pm - At a flag raising ceremony in Tullycross, Co. Galway, Ireland on April 4, Aquinas College officially launched their new Ireland Study Abroad Program. Although Aquinas College has brought students to the Connemara village for 44 years, this year marks a change in the structure and delivery of their...Read more
04/03/2017 - 12:05pm - Five Aquinas College alumni having been nominated for the West Michigan Woman Brilliance Awards. The awards, presented by West Michigan Woman Magazine, shine a light on "dynamic talent, spirit and intellect of local women and celebrate the brilliant and meaningful impact they have on our careers...Read more
03/23/2017 - 4:32pm - In the summer of 2016, the Aquinas College School of Education received the generous gift of a Winnebago motor home from the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids. Since then, the School of Ed has been using the motor home as a mobile classroom to take students on over 15 different site visits in Grand...Read more
03/23/2017 - 3:58pm - Grade: Senior Major: Community Leadership & Spanish Minor: Women's Studies Hometown: Crown Point, Indiana Scholarships Received: Monica LaSarge Scholarship & Hansknecht Scholarship for Peace and Justice Jessica Zarik ‘17 is a graduating senior studying Community Leadership, Spanish, and...Read more
03/23/2017 - 3:55pm - Grade: Junior Major: Art & Liturgical Music Hometown: St. Paul, Minnesota Scholarships Received: Olivarez Family Scholarship Danielle Frenzel ‘18 is a Junior studying Art and Liturgical Music. Danielle’s family moved from St. Paul Minnesota to Israel when she was 10 years old. Frenzel graduated...Read more
03/23/2017 - 3:35pm - Grade: Senior Major: Sociology and Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI Scholarships Received: Catholic Junior College Scholarship Mike Priest ‘17 is a graduating senior who was searching for a strong college community where he could be heavily involved...Read more
03/22/2017 - 9:18am - Grade: Senior Major: Community Leadership, German and International Studies Hometown: Traverse City, MI Scholarships Received: Sister Mary Luncinda Lehmkuhle, O.P. Scholarship Kascha Sanor ‘17 is a graduating senior that has immersed herself fully in the Aquinas College community. Kascha engages...Read more
03/21/2017 - 9:25am - Over spring break, Aquinas students were given the opportunity to job shadow successful alums as part of the inaugural Take a Saint to Work Day. Each of the thirteen students involved were matched with an alum in their field of interest and spent half of a day exposed to various careers with the...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:53pm - “Qui bene cantat bis orat” - St. Augustine By: Lauren Fay Carlson '12 "I'm in almost every choir," said Olivia Vargas '18. A third-year student and liturgical music major, Vargas is the only student in the program who utilizes her voice as her primary instrument. Passionate about exploring her...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:50pm - By: Doug Seites '10 Athletics and the arts are worlds that don’t often collide in college. Or at least, that is a common belief. But this isn’t the case at Aquinas College, where many student-athletes work hard to find the time to balance time on the field or court with time in the studio or...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:46pm - By: Dan Truel '09 Callie Cherry ‘16 understands why the starving artist stereotype persists. That doesn’t mean she accepts it. “I was working as the assistant curator for ArtPrize at Cathedral Square and I was seeing adult artists struggling. I was seeing the [art] students I was in contact with...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:42pm - By: Patricia Schlutt '16 Anne-Marie Oomen is a poet, playwright, memoirist and fiction writer, who has published books including “Love, Sex, and 4-H,” “Pulling Down the Barn” and “Uncoded Woman.” A visiting author in the Contemporary Writers Series, Oomen hosted a reading and “craft talk” as part...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:38pm - By: Patricia Schlutt '16 In spring 2017, the 29th edition of the Sampler will appear on bookshelves, desks in the library, The Moose Cafe’ and tables in the Academic Building. The publication is Aquinas College’s way to celebrate outstanding student art and writing. Lambda Iota Tau, the former...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:33pm - In a classroom where vocabulary words are found on virtually every wall and surface, the words that come to mind when observing Sister Lucia Zapata’s ‘73 art class at St. Anthony Padua Catholic School are: ingenuity, diligence, curiosity and excitement. This Aquinas Saint earned her bachelor of...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:30pm - By: Mary Webster '17 On November 12, 2016, the 7th annual Music for the Soul concert was performed by the Aquinas Music Department with help from certified music therapists. The evening's performance was attended by parents of differently-abled children, staff from the Diocese of Grand Rapids and...Read more
03/09/2017 - 4:24pm - By: Sandra Erskine Mitchell '91 New to Aquinas' Fine Arts Program this spring is a new major, Theatre for Social Change. This makes Aquinas one of only a few colleges in the region to offer this unique major. The Theatre for Social Change curriculum is intended to help graduates discover and bridge...Read more