2018 World Cinema Festival Promotes Intercultural Appreciation January 25, 2018 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — Saint Mary’s College will hold its annual World Cinema Festival Monday, February 26 through Thursday, March 1 40 Years Abroad in Ireland Students and alumnae join President Cervelli to celebrate 40 years of Saint Mary’s Ireland study abroad program Belles Fall in Overtime Heartbreaker to Knights NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The Saint Mary's basketball team fought to the end in a 64-59 overtime loss at home against Calvin on Saturday afternoon. Belles Topped by No. 2 Flying Dutch NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The Saint Mary's basketball team fell by an 85-27 margin against undefeated No. 2/3 (WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25/d3hoops.com) Hope on Wednesday evening. Saint Mary’s to go ‘strawless’ to help protect the environment January 16, 2018 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — Plastic straws have negative environmental consequences — and Saint Mary’s is doing something about it. Beginning Monday, January 15, plastic straws will no longer be provided in the College’s Dining Hall. In Memoriam – Professor H. James (Jim) Paradis January 16, 2018 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — H. James (Jim) Paradis, artist and longtime professor at Saint Mary’s, died on December 21, 2017 at the age of 93. In Memoriam - Professor Clayton Henderson January 15, 2017 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — Clayton Henderson, musician and longtime Saint Mary’s College professor, died January 7. Roxane Gay to speak at Saint Mary's January 15, 2018 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — The Saint Mary’s College Department of Communication Studies, Dance, and Theatre is proud to present “An Evening with Roxane Gay” on Wednesday, February 7 at 7 p.m in O’Laughlin Auditorium. Cancer Research at Saint Mary's Up on the third floor of our Science Hall, three students quietly conduct ovarian cancer research using state-of-the-art equipment. Dressed appropriately in white lab coats, they manipulate and closely examine colorful petri dishes that look like something from a CSI episode. Each one contains stained ovarian cancer cells that might hold answers on how to better fight cancer.