May 13, 2022, 1:00 PM
Alum’s Life and Legacy Reveal the Science Behind Our Choices
With a gift from his estate, Kip Smith (SF73) is helping future students to ask the big questions.
With a gift from his estate, Kip Smith (SF73) is helping future students to ask the big questions.
For a small liberal arts institution, St. John’s College has a significant number of employees who are Fulbright scholars. Now St. John’s is working to help more of our undergraduate and graduate students enjoy a Fulbright experience abroad.
When Simran Thapa (SF22) heard about the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs National Women's Case Competition, she knew wanted to find a way to participate.
I think that’s a St. John’s trait—that you never stop learning and that there are always things that you can learn from. I always tell folks that the greatest lesson that I got from my St. John’s experience is there’s nothing I can’t think about.
“I love taking apart things that aren’t working and putting them back together again,” says Phelosha Collaros (SF00). Since becoming the St. John’s College Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations in 2016, she has done exactly that: revamping two collegewide departments and creating another from scratch, all while staff and budgets were being downsized.