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SMCM Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Cassie Gurbisz Leads SMCM's Participation in $3.5 Million NSF Grant Collaborative

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Cassie Gurbisz Leads SMCM's Participation in $3.5 Million NSF Grant Collaborative Chuck Steenburgh April 28, 2023 - 1:18 pm April 28, 2023 St. Mary’s College of Maryland is part of a collaboration of six institutions that was recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, led by Penn State, focuses on how aquatic plants and animals, such as clams, salt marshes and seagrasses, affect carbon cycling in the...

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SMCM St. Mary’s College of Maryland Joins JED Campus to Support Student Mental Health

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Joins JED Campus to Support Student Mental Health Chuck Steenburgh April 28, 2023 - 12:56 pm April 28, 2023 St. Mary’s College of Maryland announced that it has joined JED Campus in support of student well-being and mental health. The program is a nationwide initiative of The Jed Foundation (JED) designed to help schools evaluate and strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems to ensure that schools have the...

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SMCM Graduating St. Mary’s College of Maryland Students to Present St. Mary’s Projects May 1 & 2

Graduating St. Mary’s College of Maryland Students to Present St. Mary’s Projects May 1 & 2 Chuck Steenburgh April 26, 2023 - 4:09 pm April 26, 2023 St. Mary’s College of Maryland cordially invites the community to the St. Mary’s Project presentation sessions on Monday and Tuesday, May 1-2. Presentations will take place at various times and locations on those two days, according to the chart below. The largest presentation takes place on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Michael P...

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SMCM Professor of History Betül Başaran awarded a Virtual Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library

Professor of History Betül Başaran awarded a Virtual Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library Betul Basaran April 25, 2023 - 1:15 pm April 25, 2023 Professor of History Betül Başaran received a short-term Virtual Scholarly Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the academic year 2023-24, in support of her project, “Cross-Cultural Intimacy and Mixed Marriages in the Ottoman Empire.” The award was made from a competitive pool of international candidates and will...

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SMCM Professor Mertz Interviewed about ASBMB’s Summer Education Meeting and NSF Grant

Professor Mertz Interviewed about ASBMB’s Summer Education Meeting and NSF Grant Pamela Mertz April 13, 2023 - 5:27 pm April 13, 2023 Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was interviewed for an article that recently appeared in ASBMB Today on the ASBMB summer education meeting that will be held at Suffolk University in Boston this July, “Transforming undergraduate education in the molecular life sciences.” Professor Mertz is the primary organizer of this conference with three...

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SMCM Assistant Professor Soo Bin Jang Published on Asian American Identity-Based Mentoring

Assistant Professor Soo Bin Jang Published on Asian American Identity-Based Mentoring Soo Bin Jang April 19, 2023 - 11:24 am April 19, 2023 Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Soo Bin Jang, PhD and her colleagues recently published an article entitled "Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars' reading group on AsianCrit" in The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Through a collaborative process of reading, discussing, and...

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SMCM President Jordan, Professor King Participate in Lemon Project Spring Symposium

President Jordan, Professor King Participate in Lemon Project Spring Symposium Chuck Steenburgh April 07, 2023 - 10:01 am April 07, 2023 SMCM President Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD, and Professor of Anthropology Julia King, PhD, were panelists at the 13th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium held by the College of William & Mary on March 24-25, 2023. Titled, "Maryland and the World: A Roundtable Discussion about Truth and Reconciliation" the panel focused both on physical objects and digital...

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SMCM Joanne Goldwater Selected as a Panelist for Spring 2023 Institute

Joanne Goldwater Selected as a Panelist for Spring 2023 Institute Kathleen Pusecker April 07, 2023 - 9:02 am April 07, 2023 Joanne Goldwater, associate dean for retention and student success in the Office of Student Success Services, has been selected to present on a panel for the Maryland Association of Institutional Research at their Spring 2023 Institute Friday, April 28, 2023. At the panel session "Student Success Panel: Bridging the Work of IR and Student Success," Goldwater and...

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SMCM Professor of Art Sue Johnson Awarded Paris Summer Fellowship

Professor of Art Sue Johnson Awarded Paris Summer Fellowship Lee Capristo April 05, 2023 - 10:27 pm April 05, 2023 Sue Johnson, professor of art, has been awarded a two-month fellowship in Paris, France at Cité Internationale des Arts in summer 2023. Located in the Marais along the Seine, she will have a live-work studio space in the well-known arts complex that offers fellowships to an international community of artists. Based on archival research in Paris, Johnson will create new...

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SMCM Professor of Mathematics Sandy Ganzell Co-Edits Two-Volume Set

Professor of Mathematics Sandy Ganzell Co-Edits Two-Volume Set Lee Capristo April 05, 2023 - 10:17 pm April 05, 2023 Professor of Mathematics Sandy Ganzell is co-editor with Eli Goldwyn and Aaron Wootton of “Mathematics Research for the Beginning Student," Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Springer Link, 2022). The textbooks are part of the Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics series. Ganzell wrote a chapter in Volume 1, titled “Mosaics and Virtual Knots.”

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SMCM Bay to Bay Service Days Kicked Off with Four Local Projects

Bay to Bay Service Days Kicked Off with Four Local Projects Gretchen Phillips April 04, 2023 - 1:26 pm April 04, 2023 Alumni, students and community members got their hands dirty on Sunday, April 2, in the name of the St. Mary’s Way, as the College’s Alumni Association kicked off its annual Bay to Bay Service Days. Since 2017, supporters across the country have volunteered to give back to their local communities during the month of April - National Volunteer Month. SMCM alumni in states...

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SMCM Congressman Hoyer Visits Campus

Congressman Hoyer Visits Campus Chuck Steenburgh April 04, 2023 - 11:43 am April 04, 2023 U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, whose Maryland 5th Congressional District includes St. Mary's County, visited St. Mary's College of Maryland on Monday, April 3. Highlights of the congressman's visit included the Schaefer Hall aquatic lab, the Nancy R. & Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center and the Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland on a tour conducted by SMCM President Tuajuanda C...

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SMCM Professor of English Beth Charlebois Has Chapter Published

Professor of English Beth Charlebois Has Chapter Published Lee Capristo March 29, 2023 - 10:18 am March 29, 2023 Professor of English Beth Charlebois was recently published in "Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation" (Routledge, 2023), edited by Vanessa I. Correder, L. Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way. Her chapter, titled "Prospero in Prison: Adaptation and Appropriation in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed" analyzes Atwood's fictional adaptation of "The Tempest" entitled "Hag-Seed." Charlebois...

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SMCM Professor of Spanish José Ballesteros Publishes Several Poems

Professor of Spanish José Ballesteros Publishes Several Poems Lee Capristo March 29, 2023 - 11:28 am March 29, 2023 Professor of Spanish José R. Ballesteros had several of his poems published in the Summer/Fall 2022 edition of The Journal of the South Central MLA (John Hopkins University Press). Each of Ballesteros' poems is published with a translated counterpart, one in Spanish and one in English. Thematically, the poems address empowering the outing of traumatic experiences from a...

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SMCM Professor of Business Silvio Borrero Participates on ICFES Board

Professor of Business Silvio Borrero Participates on ICFES Board Lee Capristo March 29, 2023 - 10:04 am March 29, 2023 Inaugural William Seale Professor of Business Silvio Borrero participated in the Colombian Institute of Education Evaluation (ICFES) board of directors meeting on March 15. Borrero has been a member of the ICFES board of directors since 2017, when he was appointed by Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. ICFES is a government organization responsible for the evaluation...

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SMCM Professor Mertz presents on teaching Gen Z and iCn3D at Discover BMB

Professor Mertz presents on teaching Gen Z and iCn3D at Discover BMB Pamela Mertz March 27, 2023 - 7:50 pm March 27, 2023 Pam Mertz, professor of biochemistry, presented a talk, “The Gen Z Student: Who Do We Teach” in the session “Teaching Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities” at the ASBMB Discover BMB meeting in Seattle, Washington on March 25. In addition, on March 27, she helped facilitate a workshop on iCn3D, a web-based molecular modeling program from the National Center for...

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SMCM Sociologist Andrew Cognard-Black Receives Grant for Research

Sociologist Andrew Cognard-Black Receives Grant for Research Lee Capristo March 29, 2023 - 9:42 am March 29, 2023 Andrew Cognard-Black, assistant professor of sociology, is the recipient of a grant from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to support his research project titled "Honors and Beyond." The grant covers travel and other expenses associated with accessing restricted-use student data from the College and Beyond II Studies (CBII) housed at the...

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SMCM Institutional Advancement Marketing Team Earns Awards

Institutional Advancement Marketing Team Earns Awards Chuck Steenburgh March 24, 2023 - 5:27 pm March 24, 2023 The Institutional Advancement marketing team of St. Mary’s College of Maryland earned two gold awards, a silver and a merit in the 38th Annual Educational Advertising Awards (EAA). The gold awards were for the design of the admitted student pocket folder and for the design of the Admission seahawk cutout poster. The silver award was for the design of the program for the Grand...

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SMCM President Jordan Among Maryland’s Top 100 Women

President Jordan Among Maryland’s Top 100 Women Gretchen Phillips March 24, 2023 - 3:59 pm March 24, 2023 For her outstanding leadership in her profession and in the community, St. Mary’s College of Maryland President Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD was named to the Daily Record’s 2023 Maryland’s Top 100 Women. “The 2023 Maryland’s Top 100 Women are trailblazers. They are professionally successful, serve as leaders in the community and demonstrate a commitment to mentoring,” said Suzanne...

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SMCM Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Daniel Tobiansky accepted as a fellow of the UC San Diego Leading the Advancement of Underrepresented Neuroscienti

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Daniel Tobiansky accepted as a fellow of the UC San Diego Leading the Advancement of Underrepresented Neuroscientists for Change (LAUNCH) program Daniel Tobiansky March 24, 2023 - 7:23 am March 24, 2023 Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Daniel Tobiansky, PhD (Biology and Neuroscience), was recently accepted to take part in the UC San Diego's Leading the Advancement of Underrepresented Neuroscientists for Change (LAUNCH) program. This is one of three...

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