Portraits

Beau Shell, freshman student and business owner more commonly known as Lil’ Ice Cream Dude, poses for a portrait with ice cream and popsicles from his Athens store, Cool World Ice Cream Shop.

Forestry students in the field.

Emmanuel Epau '24, Business Administration, stands among greenery outside of Holy Cross Hall in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Epau is the university's first Moreau Scholar from Holy Cross Lake View school in Jinja, Uganda. Because of the pandemic and visa-processing delays, he spent his freshman year studying remotely, persevering despite the nine-hour time difference and a week when the country's internet was cut off. As the winner of a Portz Interdisciplinary Fellowship from the National Collegiate Honors Council, Epau returned to Uganda last summer to research social media use in rural Africa. But Epau, who grew up in a city, discovered that rural Ugandans didn't use social media because they could not afford smartphones. He returned to St. Edward's even more committed to using his education to help people in Uganda. "I want to create more opportunities and chances back home," he says.

A welding program student working on his final project of the semester.