Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College News

The St. Mary-of-the-Woods College cross country team has won the United States Collegiate Athletic Associations National Cross Country Championship at Concord, NH.

St. Mary-of-the-Woods College Music and Theatre Department presents Life Choices, an evening of short one acts at 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday The program is directed by artist-in-residence Brandon Wentz along with SMWC directing students.

Land with a story now has a name. Two names, in fact. "I think that, first of all, we were all quite pleased with how that all worked out," Paul Newport said Saturday after the dedication of the Jackson/Schnyder Nature Preserve, woods once owned by his grandfather.

Hundreds gathered Sunday morning for a special brunch at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, as the Sisters of Providence wrapped up the inaugural Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Fest.

Sylvia Crowder, 18, of Cayuga will be competing in Miss Indiana Teen USA. Crowder is a senior at North Vermillion High School and plans to major in dentistry.

Rose-Hulman faculty newsmakers: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Civil Engineering Professor Jim Hanson and Humanities & Social Sciences Professor Pat Brophy were co-authors of a research paper that received the Best Zone Paper Award at the American Society of Engineering Education's 2009 Annual Conference.

Over the next two years, Arts Illiana and Terre Haute will host some talented international musicians as part of the Arts Midwest World Fest.

Same place. Different time. Same heart. New outlook. Guitar in hand, Cari Ray stood singing beneath the soft lights of a coffeehouse on Wabash Avenue in Terre Haute last month.

The Terre Haute Children's Museum now has a new director. Lynn Hughes will begin her position as executive director for the Children's Museum.

Hulman Center sizzled Friday night with some sultry dancing as dancers took to the floor with the tango, hustle and cha cha.

St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, a proud partner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will bring debt experts to campus for a Financial Sustainability Conference during Money Smart Week in Indiana.

On Tuesday, Will Keim, a motivational speaker who has spoken to more than two million students, faculty, and staff from 2,000 campuses in the United States and Canada, will give a special presentation at St.

The meeting room at Maria's was packed for the women's business retreat, featuring Tara Lane, Director of the Small Business Development Center at St.

During Friday's dedication of a Peace Pole at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, people were asked to write down their peace intentions, which would be buried next to the pole.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I participated in the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors annual fall conference.

Marion Jackson is joining some select company. Jackson, an Indiana State University professor emeritus of life sciences, is one of 15 inductees in the inaugural class of the Indiana Conservation Hall of Fame.

National recognition has come to an organization that does more than support the spiritual, social and intellectual needs of college communities in the Wabash Valley.

With their combined workforce, payroll and enrollments, Vigo County's higher education institutions have a major impact on the local economy, college officials said Wednesday.

Indiana University announced its biggest systemwide enrollment ever last week: 107,160 students.

This academic year, New Mexico State University-Alamogordo hired a permanent director of nursing and five full-time tenure-track faculty.