Motiram '23 Selected for Fulbright ETA Award Chuck Steenburgh April 23, 2024 - 11:10 am
April 23, 2024
Surisitee Motiram ’23 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Award for the 2024-2025 year from the U.S. Department of State. Motiram will spend a year in Colombia under the aegis of the program. They are the first SMCM student or alumnus to receive a U.S. Student Fulbright Award since 2016.
"I'm excited to immerse myself in a new culture and embrace every moment of...
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So. Md Education News
News from the local county public and private schools and colleges.
Professor of Spanish José Ballesteros Honored by HUD Lee Capristo April 23, 2024 - 9:36 am
April 23, 2024
José Ballesteros, professor and chair of the Department of International Languages and Cultures, was the invited guest poet at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launch on April 11 of National Fair Housing Month. Ballesteros read two poems in Spanish from a set of five that he wrote, titled “Home Suites I-V” about his personal journey through the country and housing...
Officer Katie Ringdahl Selected as Public Safety Officer of the Year Chuck Steenburgh April 23, 2024 - 6:56 am
April 23, 2024
The Office of Public Safety is pleased to announce that Public Safety Officer Katie Ringdahl has been selected as our Officer of the Year for 2024.
Officer Ringdahl started her career with the Office of Public Safety in 2021. Officer Ringdahl possesses a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland Global Campus and an Associate of Arts...
JED Campus SMCM Update – Spring 2024 Chuck Steenburgh April 17, 2024 - 7:40 am
April 17, 2024
SMCM joined with the JED Foundation in 2022 to ensure we are promoting health and wellness on our campus. The JED Foundation is a nonprofit organization that partners with colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems. The SMCM JED Campus team worked with JED consultants during the 2022-23 academic year to create a JED strategic plan for...
Associate Professor Argelia González Hurtado Co-editor of New Book Lee Capristo April 14, 2024 - 3:23 pm
April 14, 2024
St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) Associate Professor Argelia González Hurtado has co-edited "Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film" with colleague Maria Soledad Paz-Mackay (St. Francis Xavier University). The book, published by Lexington Books, features 11 chapters and conversations with filmmakers who use landscape to...
SMCM Selected to Receive the IIE American Passport Project Grant Chuck Steenburgh April 12, 2024 - 1:29 pm
April 12, 2024
St. Mary's College of Maryland has been selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to receive an IIE American Passport Project grant that will enable up to 25 Pell-eligible first-year SMCM students to obtain their first U.S. passport and open the pathway to study abroad. In its fourth year, IIE awarded 51 institutions in the IIENetwork membership for...
SMCM Two SMCM Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Summer Language Study in Taiwan
Two SMCM Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Summer Language Study in Taiwan Chuck Steenburgh April 04, 2024 - 8:44 am
April 04, 2024
St. Mary's College of Maryland students Jonathan Geyer '24 and Summer LaRocco '26 were recipients of grants under the Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Advanced Overseas Chinese Language Study for the summer of 2024. The fellowships are awarded by the American Councils for International Education under a grant from the U.S. Department of...
Professor Mertz Presents at Discover BMB and Serves on an Invited Panel Pamela Mertz April 02, 2024 - 3:14 pm
April 02, 2024
Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was a co-author on 4 posters presented at Discover BMB in San Antonio. She presented with two faculty from other institutions on “Lessons Learned from the First Implementation of Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs in Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry Lab Courses.” Two other posters were on assessment of biomolecular visualization...
Students Take First Place in Hackathon Lee Capristo March 28, 2024 - 5:36 pm
March 28, 2024
St. Mary's College of Maryland senior computer science majors Alex Stoyanov-Roberts and Shameer Rao took first place in the VelocityX: AI Hackathon hosted by the College of Southern Maryland and sponsored by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division on March 21-22.
The challenge for the hackathon was to produce an image classification model capable of identifying images of aircraft. This is a...
SMCM United States Rep. Steny Hoyer to Deliver St. Mary's College of Maryland's 2024 Commencement Address
United States Rep. Steny Hoyer to Deliver St. Mary's College of Maryland's 2024 Commencement Address Gretchen Phillips March 28, 2024 - 1:30 pm
March 28, 2024
Maryland’s longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD 5th) will deliver the keynote address during St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s 2024 Commencement. The commencement ceremony will take place Saturday, May 11 beginning at 10 a.m. on the College’s Townhouse Green.
“I am honored to...
Professor Williams and Katya Scott '24 Publish Systematic Review in The Arts in Psychotherapy Angela Draheim March 24, 2024 - 9:48 am
March 24, 2024
Senior psychology major Katya Scott '24 and Professor of Psychology Libby Williams were recently published in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy. The article is based on Scott's summer 2022 SURF project: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies on Art Therapy with Adult Refugees. Katya's St. Mary's Project, a mixed methods pilot study of...
New Awards for Institutional Advancement Marketing Team Chuck Steenburgh March 25, 2024 - 11:10 am
March 25, 2024
The Institutional Advancement integrated marketing & communications team has won awards in two national competitions for their work in 2023.
"The unwavering ingenuity and dedication of Institutional Advancement's integrated marketing team are a driving force behind the College's soaring reputation and brand excellence," said Carolyn Curry, vice president for institutional...
Asst. Prof. Carthan Performs at the Kennedy Center April 16 Chuck Steenburgh March 21, 2024 - 12:12 pm
March 21, 2024
Assistant Professor of Music Ellington Carthan headlines a sold-out performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. As part of the Kennedy Center's Ellington 125 series celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of musical legend Duke Ellington, Carthan will narrate and perform with the Post Classical Ensemble a program titled...
Supreme Court of Maryland Hears Oral Arguments at St. Mary's College Chuck Steenburgh March 07, 2024 - 11:53 am
March 07, 2024
The Supreme Court of Maryland heard oral arguments in the auditorium of the Nancy R. & Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center on the campus of St. Mary's College of Maryland on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. This marked only the second time in recent history that Maryland's highest court held oral arguments outside the City of Annapolis.
Several hundred students, both...
Original screen prints of Professor of Art Sue Johnson in exhibition through April Lee Capristo March 06, 2024 - 12:26 pm
March 06, 2024
Sue Johnson, professor of art, will exhibit large-scale screen-prints in Mesh, a national juried exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. The exhibition will be on view from March 16 - April 28, with an opening reception on Friday, March 15, 6-8 p.m. Johnson's works are from Subliminality, a series of 7-foot-tall prints on...
SMCM Taking a chance for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity : SMCM student dances her way to the Super Bowl halftime show
Taking a chance for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity : SMCM student dances her way to the Super Bowl halftime show Gretchen Phillips March 04, 2024 - 11:22 am
March 04, 2024
Kailah Callaham ’27 could have brushed it off as a transient thought that night in 2023 when she watched the cast of performers at Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime show and thought, “I could do that.'' But then she wouldn’t have been on the field dancing in the 2024 Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show while more...
SMCM SMCM Psychology Alumni and Professor Howansky Contribute to Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference with Connected Publication
SMCM Psychology Alumni and Professor Howansky Contribute to Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference with Connected Publication Angela Draheim February 26, 2024 - 10:30 pm
February 26, 2024
Alumni April Fraser '23 and Sonder Van Wert '23 and Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Howansky presented research at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference held in in San Diego, California in mid-February.
April Fraser...
Professor Betül Başaran presents paper in Paris Betul Basaran February 21, 2024 - 8:30 am
February 21, 2024
Professor of History Betül Başaran attended the conference "Perceptions de la guerre et de la sortie de guerre au Moyen-Orient (1918-1923): Expériences, narrations, re-construction des identités et perspectives" in Paris, where she gave a talk entitled "Niloufer Hanım Sultan: An Exiled Ottoman Princess in Hyderabad, India and Muslim Women's Leadership Roles after WW1." Başaran's...
SMCM Employees Share Black Literature, Life Experience with Local Students Gretchen Phillips February 20, 2024 - 1:42 pm
February 20, 2024
By sharing both passages from books and pieces of life experiences, five members of St. Mary’s College of Maryland faculty and staff inspired students at Great Mills High School during the African American Read-In on Friday, Feb. 9.
Volunteer readers from the St. Mary’s County community visited classes and read from Black authors' literature that...
Julia King Named to the Geoge B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts Gretchen Phillips February 08, 2024 - 2:00 pm
February 08, 2024
Julia King, professor of anthropology, was named to the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts in recognition of her numerous accomplishments as a full-time professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. King’s term took effect at the start of the spring 2024 semester and runs through May 31, 2026.
Established in 1997...