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SMCM 19th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Celebration on Monday, Jan. 20, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

19th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Celebration on Monday, Jan. 20, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Chuck Steenburgh January 06, 2023 - 11:07 am January 06, 2023 19th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Celebration on Monday, Jan. 20, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Annual event returns in person for first time since 2020 The celebration of the legacy of Revered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to an in-person format for the first time since the pandemic at the 19th Annual...

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SMCM Katherine Gantz Named Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty

Katherine Gantz Named Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Chuck Steenburgh January 04, 2023 - 8:05 am January 04, 2023 St. Mary’s College of Maryland President Tuajuanda C. Jordan has appointed Katherine L. Gantz as vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, effective January 9, 2023. The leadership position reports directly to the president. “After a thorough and vigorous national search that produced a group of outstanding candidates, Dr. Katie Gantz...

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SMCM St. Mary’s College of Maryland Partners with Cecil College for New Chemistry and Biochemistry Articulation Agreements

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Partners with Cecil College for New Chemistry and Biochemistry Articulation Agreements Shanen Sherrer January 03, 2023 - 11:49 am January 03, 2023 Students from Cecil College now can easily transfer into St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s chemistry and biochemistry majors with the signing of two new articulation agreements. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Shanen M. Sherrer led the development of these agreements, which lay out the sequence of courses...

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SMCM Professors Assist Calvert Marine Museum with Recovery of Fossil Whale Skull

Professors Assist Calvert Marine Museum with Recovery of Fossil Whale Skull Geoffrey Bowers December 24, 2022 - 12:13 pm December 24, 2022 Associate Professor Geoffrey Bowers and Visiting Assistant Professor Victor Perez both assisted the Calvert Marine Museum with the recovery of a ~12 million year old fossil whale skull on Monday, December 19th. The whale skull was found in a concretion on the beach in Calvert County estimated to weigh ~650 lbs. Bowers and Perez worked with many other...

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SMCM Professor Kaisen's paper featured at 18th annual Product and Service Innovation Conference

Professor Kaisen's paper featured at 18th annual Product and Service Innovation Conference Joshua Kaisen December 20, 2022 - 5:50 pm December 20, 2022 Visiting assistant professor of economics Joshua Kaisen's paper, “When Believing is a Stretch: Prosocial Goal Communication in Reward-based Crowdfunding," will close out the 18th annual Product and Service Innovation Conference in Park City, Utah hosted by the University of Utah. The talk will be presented by the paper's co-author Daniel...

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SMCM SMCM Row Team Members Volunteer at Local Equestrian Center Shiloh Manor

SMCM Row Team Members Volunteer at Local Equestrian Center Shiloh Manor Angela Draheim December 16, 2022 - 10:17 am December 16, 2022 On Saturday Dec. 3, nine members of the St. Mary’s College of Maryland women’s and men’s rowing teams assisted with framing four new run-in shelters at Shiloh Manor, an equestrian facility in nearby St. Inigoes. In September, women’s team captain Nicolette Iacona ’22 reached out to Angie Draheim, academic program coordinator and departmental web specialist...

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SMCM Associate Professor Mirabile CoLeads Panel on How to Write Antiracist Recommendation Letters for Global Series

Associate Professor Mirabile CoLeads Panel on How to Write Antiracist Recommendation Letters for Global Series Angela Draheim December 12, 2022 - 11:50 am December 12, 2022 On Nov 30, 2022, Associate Professor of Psychology Scott Mirabile and colleagues led a panel discussion entitled "How to Write Antiracist Recommendation Letters," as part of Growing Up in Science, a global series of online conversations about the personal narratives of scientists. Mirabile led a similar discussion at...

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SMCM Empowering Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive, Just and Accessible Systems for Teaching and Learning

Empowering Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive, Just and Accessible Systems for Teaching and Learning Leslie Mangold December 08, 2022 - 1:33 pm December 08, 2022 St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been announced as a recipient of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in the Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) program. The grant will support SMCM in reflecting upon and ultimately restructuring the way it facilitates, evaluates and rewards teaching and learning practices that center on...

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SMCM Assoc. Prof. George MacLeod Publishes Article

Assoc. Prof. George MacLeod Publishes Article Lee Capristo December 08, 2022 - 9:20 am December 08, 2022 Associate Professor of French George MacLeod has recently published an article entitled, “Race and Terrorism in French Cinema: Discourses of Whiteness and ‘Brown Threat’ in Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France” in the United Kingdom-based, peer-reviewed Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies. In this article, MacLeod argues for the importance of analyzing Islamophobia as a form of...

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SMCM Pianist Brian Ganz to Play First Full Piano Recital at New Dodge Performing Arts Center

Pianist Brian Ganz to Play First Full Piano Recital at New Dodge Performing Arts Center Gretchen Phillips December 07, 2022 - 4:36 pm December 07, 2022 St. Mary's College of Maryland Musician-in-Residence Brian Ganz will perform his first complete piano recital in the main auditorium of the new Nancy R. and Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center on the college campus. On Sunday, December 11 at 7pm he will perform a program to include works of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel and Chopin. The...

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SMCM Assistant Professor Howansky Published in Teaching of Psychology Journal

Assistant Professor Howansky Published in Teaching of Psychology Journal Angela Draheim November 30, 2022 - 11:42 am November 30, 2022 Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Howansky and colleagues recently published an article entitled, "Initial Evidence for Shifting Race Essentialism Beliefs in the Classroom" in the journal Teaching of Psychology. In this work, the authors conclude that "after engaging in course-directed activities designed to teach that race does not reflect...

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SMCM Assistant Professor Jessye McDowell has solo exhibition

Assistant Professor Jessye McDowell has solo exhibition Jessica McDowell November 29, 2022 - 6:18 pm November 29, 2022 Assistant Professor Jessye McDowell currently has a solo exhibition at Sonoma State University in Sonoma, CA. Titled Superbia, the exhibition runs from November 4 - December 11 alongside a show by artist Allison Berkoy. The exhibition showcases work from McDowell's new series that uses 3D modeling to create imagined "sacred vessels of the metaverse."

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SMCM Assistant Professor Ehman Published in Special Issue of Psychological Services Journal

Assistant Professor Ehman Published in Special Issue of Psychological Services Journal Angela Draheim November 21, 2022 - 5:24 pm November 21, 2022 Assistant Professor of Psychology Anandi Ehman and colleagues recently published an article entitled, "Moral injury and psychosocial functioning in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic" in a special issue on spirtually integrated care of the journal Psychological Services. Moral injury is defined as “the lasting psychological...

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SMCM Associate Professor Sarah Malena unveils new digital history project at international and national conferences

Associate Professor Sarah Malena unveils new digital history project at international and national conferences Sarah Malena November 22, 2022 - 12:17 pm November 22, 2022 Associate Professor of History, Sarah Malena, presented research based on her new project, Women of the Ancient World (WOAW), an interactive website featuring graphic-novel-style illustrations that is designed to be a teaching resource and research forum. Professor Malena is co-directing the project with Associate...

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SMCM Sociologist Andrew Cognard-Black's Work Cited in Inside Higher Ed

Sociologist Andrew Cognard-Black's Work Cited in Inside Higher Ed Lee Capristo November 18, 2022 - 4:49 pm November 18, 2022 Pandion Haliaetus Professor of Sociology Andrew Cognard-Black's work was cited in the opinion piece, "Can Honors Education Reach More Students?" on Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Inside Higher Ed. The piece, written by Richard Badenhausen and James Buss, links to a published study, "Demography of Honors: The Census of U.S. Honors Programs and Colleges" for which Cognard-Black...

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SMCM Assistant Professor Nayantara Kurpad Published in Metacognition and Learning

Assistant Professor Nayantara Kurpad Published in Metacognition and Learning Angela Draheim November 18, 2022 - 12:54 pm November 18, 2022 Assistant Professor of Psychology Nayantara Kurpad and colleagues recently published an article entitled, "Metacognitive errors in the classroom: The role of variability of past performance on exam prediction accuracy" in the journal Metacognition and Learning. In this paper, researchers looked at why low-performing students often make inaccurate...

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SMCM Professor of History Christine Adams is Invited Lecturer at the Kennedy Center

Professor of History Christine Adams is Invited Lecturer at the Kennedy Center Lee Capristo November 18, 2022 - 11:57 am November 18, 2022 On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Professor of History Christine Adams gave an invited talk for Opera Lafayette's Salon Series, titled "Born to Fill this Position: Madame de Pompadour and the Tradition of the French Royal Mistress." Adams will give an invited lecture on Madame de Pompadour on Dec. 2 at the Kennedy Center to introduce the chamber music program, "In...

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SMCM Nine St. Mary's College of Maryland Students Earn IT Security Credential

Nine St. Mary's College of Maryland Students Earn IT Security Credential Chuck Steenburgh November 15, 2022 - 1:31 pm November 15, 2022 SMCM President Tuajuanda C. Jordan, SMCM computer science students, and RMC executives outside RMC headquarters in Lexington Park. A total of nine St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) students have earned the industry-standard CompTIA Security+ certification through a partnership with Resource Management Concepts Inc. (RMC). The students trained at RMC, a...

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SMCM A Hunger-Free Campus: St. Mary’s College Receives Maryland Higher Education Commission Award to Address Food Insecurity

A Hunger-Free Campus: St. Mary’s College Receives Maryland Higher Education Commission Award to Address Food Insecurity Leslie Mangold November 10, 2022 - 3:27 pm November 10, 2022 The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs is proud to announce that Dereck Rovaris, Vice President for Equity and Strategic Initiatives, was recently awarded a one-year grant through the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program. This program was established to help support...

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SMCM Associate Professor Scott Mirabile Publishes Article in Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Associate Professor Scott Mirabile Publishes Article in Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Angela Draheim November 08, 2022 - 11:10 am November 08, 2022 Associate Professor of Psychology Scott Mirabile and colleagues recently published an article entitled "Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale" in the Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. There are few validated tools for studying how...

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