Everyone associated with Saint Mary’s will be positively impacted by the new Strategic Plan 2017, adopted by the Board of Trustees in October. The five-year plan will guide our work to advance the mission and to realize the vision of Saint Mary’s as a well-known, top-tier national university. The strategic themes in this document will strengthen our capacity to provide the kind of education needed to help our students shape a better world for all.
OPPORTUNITIES EXPLORED AT NOTED CANCER INSTITUTE
Dr. Qiangwei Fu, research scientist at the Kabara Cancer Research Institute; Brother Ed Siderewicz, assistant to the president for first-generation and Lasallian initiatives; Audrey Kintzi, vice president for development; Dr. Carl Simon Shelley, director of hematology/oncology research at the Institute; and Dr. Steven Titus, senior vice president for university advancement.
Exploring potential student research and internship relationships, university officials visited a regional center of medical research that holds great promise for enhancing the undergraduate science programs. On a site visit to the Kabara Cancer Research Institute at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, the Saint Mary’s group met with senior researchers to explore opportunities for collaboration with university science students, faculty and graduates. The world-class research facility is made possible in large part through the vision and generosity of SMU trustee and benefactor Betty Kabara and the foundation she started with her late husband and SMU alum, Jon Kabara ’48.
STUDENTS GIVE INPUT AT SCIENCE VISIONING WORKSHOP
Students, current and former faculty, and staff participated in a two-day workshop to surface ideas for future excellence. “What Works: Shaping a Vision for the Sciences at Saint Mary’s University” was led by facilitators including alum Jim Gentile ’68, Ph.D., who took participants through a series of case studies and exercises to tease out a future vision and concrete steps to achieve that vision. Themes that emerged included interdisciplinary approach, technology focus, collaboration across departments and campuses, integration with employers in the private and public sector, and leveraging our extraordinary talent and natural resources. Ideas from the workshop are being considered by the university’s Science Vision Task Force.
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