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Concert Band to present spring performance April 23

The Saint Mary’s Concert Band spring semester performance will be held on Saturday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in Page Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. No reservations are needed. Directed by Dr. Janet Heukeshoven, the concert will include a variety of...

Latin American Sisters visit Texas to serve migrant communities at the border

Written by Sister Maryud Cortes Restrepo in Spanish and translated by student worker Ana Paula Saldaña This past February, the Latin American Sisters that form part of our Saint Mary´s community, in conjunction with Catholic Extension, had the opportunity to travel...

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?...

Greek dinner fundraiser April 26 to raise funds for Sandbar Storytelling Festival

WINONA, Minn. — Storytelling is best done around a table as guests share stories and form deeper connections and an understanding of one another. On this theme, the public is invited to register for “My Big Fat Greek Dinner” on Tuesday, April 26, a fundraiser for the...

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...

Saint Mary’s Spotlight: Nicholas Pritchard

The Marketing and Communication Office will be profiling Saint Mary’s University leaders regularly in the Cardinal Update. Our goal is to showcase those overseeing and guiding key areas important to our strategic initiatives. This week, we feature Nicholas Pritchard,...

Highlighting academic excellence at Saint Mary’s

Members of the Saint Mary’s University community continue to highlight the academic excellence our university has to offer in several ways. This includes presenting at academic conferences, having research published in academic journals, and being cited in a National...