Ongoing

Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions: Bridging Biology and Social Justice Photo Exhibit 

This spring break, fourteen St. Kate’s students ventured to Monteverde, Costa Rica, as part of the GSJ course Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions: Bridging Biology and Social Justice. Along with Biology Professor Rahul Roy and Global Studies Director Neela Nandyal, the students explored themes of ecological justice, regeneration, and sustainability in the context of Costa Rica. The week’s activities included numerous hikes, visits to coffee farms and protected forests, wildlife viewing, and the opportunity to explore the canopy of the cloud forest via zip lines and hanging bridges. In addition, students met with environmental scientists, climate activists, local farmers, and entrepreneurs to better understand local issues of biodiversity conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice. 

During the week in Costa Rica, students documented visual stories that explore the interconnected themes of eco-justice, biodiversity, sustainability, and climate change. Students used their photos to reflect on environmental issues connected to people’s lives, communities, and nature. The photos and reflections gathered in this exhibit are the result of that work. 

Art and Power is a virtual exhibition that platforms a selection of animate objects in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). Co-created by students in the College for Women at St. Catherine University during the fall semester 2025, this exhibition features chat labels that these student-scholars composed through close encounters with their selected artwork. The following questions shaped their research: What is the history of museums? What is the history of this museum? Whom does the museum serve? Why is this object in this collection? Why does it look the way it does? What is the object’s positionality? What is the positionality of the viewer? What is the object’s relationship to power? What is the viewer’s relationship to power? 

Starting from the assumption that “museums are not neutral,” Art and Power invites you to think with and through these resonant works of art and the stories they tell about art and power across time.

Environmental Health 3350

Recorded poster presentations were available on the website from April 27 - May 1. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to and overview of the key areas of environmental health. Using the perspectives of the population and community, the course covers factors associated with the development of environmental health problems. The student posters that were presented during the Celebration of RCI were their final projects.