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West Coast Conference Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Coach of the Year Are All Gaels

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Along with Saint Mary's winning the WCC title, five Men’s Basketball players receive conference honors: Augustas Marciulionis, Mitchell Saxen, Aidan Mahaney, Alex Ducas, and Joshua Jefferson. And Randy Bennett is Coach of the Year.

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Scholar at Work: How Sunayani Bhattacharya Turns the Focus of Literary Analysis onto the Reader, Connecting Past with Present

‘The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal’ traces development of a new form of literature in Bengal, revealing how society and reading itself…

Three women's basketball players and the text WCC All Conference Awards

Zeryhia Aokuso Named WCC Freshman of the Year. Gaels Ali Bamberger and Maia Jones Receive Honors as Well.

Aokuso was a seven-time recipient of the WCC Freshman of the Week Award this season. Bamberger topped 1,000 points. And Jones came on strong…

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In Their Own Words: Jesus Jimenez ’24 on Creating Better Support Systems for Bilingual Students

He’s president of Men’s Club Volleyball. He has wanted to be a teacher since childhood. And he hopes to teach at a bilingual school with a…

Gaels Defeat Pepperdine to Clinch First Outright Regular Season Conference Title Since 2012

With an 83–57 victory over the Waves, Saint Mary’s finishes conference play with a perfect road record. And SMC has the longest winning…

Sundance and Scandinavia

Scandinavia and Sundance: Two Gaels Share Their Highlights from Jan Term 2024

Whether it was ice skating on an arctic lake or seeing the cast of "Napoleon Dynamite," for Fiona Mallon ’24 and Roya Amirsheybani ’25,…

SEBA Dean Gibson with a screened image of the SMC Campus behind him

Saint Mary’s College Introduces Donald Gibson as New Dean of School of Economics and Business Administration

In coming to Saint Mary's, he says, “I’m drawn to the School’s emphasis on developing students as business leaders who care.” He recently…

Jose Feito, PoY

‘The Very Best of Us—And What We Aspire to Be’: José Feito is SMC’s Professor of the Year

This psychology teacher and scholar who learned to love learning as much as teaching reflects on a journey that began—and remains—right here…

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Inaugural Summer Academy for High School Students Coming to Saint Mary’s College this June

High School Juniors and Seniors Can Earn College Credit While Experiencing Life on Campus…

Student Action Helped Bring the High Potential Program into Being. Fifty Years Later, Student Scholars Are Preserving Its History.

How a program born of protest came to represent “the best of our students”—Gaels past and present tell the story.…

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Augustas Marciulionis named WCC Player of Year as Saint Mary’s trio nets top honors

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WCC Announces 2023-24 Men's Basketball All-Conference Awards: Saint Mary’s claims half of the major awards

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Saint Mary's wins WCC regular-season title, earns No. 24 spot in CBS rankings, and finale vs. Gonzaga is still big

CBS News

Artist’s massive mural a tribute to city of Tampa’s workforce, diversity

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Opposing coaches on how to play Saint Mary's: 'A pick-your-poison situation'

San Francisco Chronicle

No. 17 Saint Mary’s wins WCC regular-season title, beating Pepperdine for 16th straight victory

Associated Press

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