A new interactive art gallery opened in the O’Shaughnessy Education Center Sept. 12.
The installation, a product of St. Thomas’ E-learning and research center, merges portraits with augmented-reality technology to tell the stories of community members. It all stems from President Robert Vischer’s idea of “culture of encounter,” which his portrait will tell you in the exhibit.
Hurricane Milton is churning toward Florida’s west coast. the Tampa Bay area, home to more than 3.3 million people, is facing the possibility of widespread destruction after avoiding direct hits from major hurricanes for more than a century.
Milton was centered about 230 miles southwest of Tampa on Wednesday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, just 2 mph shy of category 5 status, the hurricane center reported.
The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in morning trading and drifting close to its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.4%, as of 10 a.m. Eastern Time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower.
Boeing slumped 2.5% for one of the market’s sharper losses after it withdrew a contract offer that would have given striking workers 30% raises over four years following a breakdown in labor talks.
Teagan Stupsky can be reached at stup3715@stthomas.edu.