University planning progress update
Dear Faculty and Staff, We have engaged in a great deal of activity in the past several days. Since the announcement earlier this month related to changes to our academic portfolio at the College, we have moved forward on several fronts and are now at a place to be...
Saint Mary’s to celebrate 250 graduates during May 7 commencement ceremony
On Saturday, May 7, Saint Mary’s University will celebrate nearly 250 graduates during its Spring 2022 Commencement on its Winona Campus. The celebration will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a Baccalaureate Mass in Saint Thomas More Chapel. The commencement ceremony will be...
Jazz at Saint Mary’s presents Big Screen/Small Screen – Classic Jazz Themes
WINONA, Minn. — What do The Pink Panther, M.A.S.H., Mission Impossible, and The Flintstones all have in common? Yes, they were all great movies or TV shows, but it was their jazz-inspired theme songs and soundtracks that set them apart. On Sunday, April 24, at 3 p.m....
Master’s degree helps Lott excel in baking, human resources
Saint Mary’s graduate school alumna Teri Anne Lott M'20 travelled often in her first professional job and didn’t have time to make a lot of friends. In her limited free time she began watching Cake Boss on cable TV and baking cakes in earnest, eventually launching...
Reading the Data
Data analytics might be made up of numbers, but ask Ellyn Vranicar M’20 and she’ll tell you it is really all about storytelling. “Collecting and consuming data doesn’t mean anything if you can’t clearly visualize it to derive insights and tell a story that will...
Liberal arts in action
When Armando Salgado B’14 graduated from Saint Mary’s, he planned on utilizing his psychology major to either become a clinical counselor or to attend medical school and become a psychologist. Then, he says, life happened. Instead, Salgado married his college...
French family legacy
A member of the French family will have been enrolled at Saint Mary’s nearly consecutively from 1986 to 2026. They’ve completed both undergraduate and graduate degrees; they’ve been involved in music, theatre, athletics, musical variety shows and more; they’ve...
Ratajczyk, Tadie discuss the metaverse on Saint Mary’s Currents podcast
This past October, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg announced his company Facebook was changing its name to Meta to quote “reflect its focus on building a metaverse.” But what exactly is a metaverse? What are the concerns that come with it? What are the possibilities?...
Removing the option to fail
As principal of Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minn., Christina Pierre C’05, C’10, D’16 deals with a lot of paperwork, personnel, policy revisions, and budgets. Never losing sight that learning is the No. 1 priority of her work, Pierre believes it’s...
Physician to Olympians
Born and raised on the Mississippi River in Winona, Dr. Heather Cichanowski, a 1995 graduate of Saint Mary’s and lifelong athlete, grew up testing the capabilities of her body. She competed in swimming, biking, and naturally — as the daughter of Mike Cichanowski,...
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