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UST Recognitions
 The University of St. Thomas was named as one of the best colleges and universities in the West by The Princeton Review. The education services company selected the school as one of 123 institutions it recommends to college applicants in its "Best in the West" section on its Web site feature, 2010 Best Colleges: Region by Region that posted July 27, 2009.
- The University of St. Thomas once again ranked in the top tier in U.S.News and World Report’s 2009 guide to “America’s Best Colleges.” Every year since 1994, UST has been named to the top tier of universities offering master’s degrees in the Western region by the guide among the schools in its category.
- In September 2009, the Cardinal Newman Society again named UST one of the top 21 Catholic colleges and universities in the second edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College: What to Look for and Where to Find It. The Guide is the culmination of more than four years of research and interviews, and the colleges profiled are recommended for strong Catholic identity and cover a wide range of institutions in terms of history, size, location, and academic focus.
- In early 2009, The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education, the research arm of The Newman Society, named UST among the 21 most affordable and faithful Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. based on tuition, institutional aid, student debt, and overall affordability.
- For the fourth time in the last five years, the Institute of International Education has named the University of St. Thomas as one of the top 20 master’s schools in the United States for study abroad programs. This year, UST ranked 16th out of 169 participating master’s institutions.
- UST is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).
- In March 2009, UST was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service to America’s communities for the second year in a row. Launched in 2006, The Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.
- In its most recent guidebook, Colleges of Distinction, Student Horizons, Inc. lists the University of St. Thomas as one of only nine “colleges of distinction” in Texas and 240 nationwide. It is the third year in a row that UST has received this honor.
- In October 2009, the American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded the University of St. Thomas Student ACS Chapter "Outstanding" status for the third time, and a Green Chemistry Award. Less than five percent of the 980 chapters in the United States and Puerto Rico were awarded this highest ranking. The UST Chapter has achieved an award every year since 2000, and this is the Chapter’s first Green Chemistry Award.
- After only three years of competing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the University of St. Thomas Lady Celts volleyball team was named Independent Champions by winning the NAIA Independent Institutions Association (AII) tournament in 2008. The team’s impressive record brought recognition to Coach Jill Reynolds, who was named AII Coach of the Year. The Lady Celts led the list of the AII All-Conference Team with five UST players appointed to the All-Conference Team. Additionally, one Lady Celt was named AII Player of the Year.
- Dedicated to the principle that character is a choice, and that being a champion is not just about winning, the University of St. Thomas has been named a Champion of Character Institution by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in 2008 for the third year in a row. The Champions of Character program instills values and creates an environment in which every NAIA student-athlete, coach, official, and spectator is committed to the true spirit of competition.
- Dr. Charlene Dykman, a UST Cameron School of Business professor of management and marketing and an authority on the management of technology and international business management, was named a 2009 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. A program of Piper Professor awards was established by the Foundation in 1958 to bring recognition for outstanding achievement in the teaching profession in colleges and universities in the State of Texas.
- The University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies and its director, Lori Gallagher, JD, have been earning international, national, state, and local accolades. The Center was named one of the top 10 Irish Studies programs in the United States by IrishCentral.com, an Irish Web site, launched by the New York-based Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America magazine. Gallagher was listed as one of the Global Irish 100, a list of the most revered and influential “Sons and Daughters of Erin,” by Irish America magazine and received an Irish American Leaders of Texas award. In April 2009, Gallagher and the Center received hometown honors at the 2009 Houston International Festival Mayor’s Gala.
- The UST School of Education was named one of the “Great Schools for 15 of the Most Popular Undergraduate Majors” in Princeton Review’s 2008 edition of “The Best 366 Colleges.” UST was recognized for providing an exceptional undergraduate education program.
- The University of St. Thomas has had six students win the highly competitive Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color since 2001 when St. Thomas became a select institution eligible to participate in this prestigious program. UST was selected by the RBF on the basis of its commitment to the education of students of color and to improving teaching in public schools.
 In September 2009, The U.S. Department of Education awarded UST’s School of Education a $2.8 million Title V Grant to fund the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. The purpose of the grant is to implement programs to achieve parity among Hispanic graduate students and other underrepresented groups in retention and graduation rates.
- University of St. Thomas is featured among the exclusive group of 50 colleges recommended by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) in their 2006 guide: All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith
- In summer 2006 The University of St. Thomas received the Landscape Award from the Museum District Business Alliance for the Labyrinth Chapel Garden, a place of reflective serenity that the University has graciously made accessible to the public.
- The Campus Life Mall won the Houston Mayor’s Proud Partners Keep Houston Beautiful award in 2006.
- The University of St. Thomas Campus Life Mall won an American Society of Landscape Architects Texas Merit Award. The project architects, TBG Partners, will receive the award in April 2007. The Campus Life Mall provides a central commons, seating plazas, and small gardens that link the adjacent facilities together by replacing parking lots and a public street that previously divided the surrounding academic, athletic, and administration buildings.
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