St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees Recognize Faculty Promotions Michael Bruckler October 21, 2019 - 11:15 am
October 21, 2019
In a special presentation on Friday, October 18, the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Board of Trustees recognized the following faculty promotions.
Promotion to Full Professor:
Betül Başaran (religious studies) joined the St. Mary’s College faculty in 2005. She is a scholar of the Ottoman Empire as well as the social and economic history of the Middle East...
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Effective December 20, 2019, the Fitness Center at the Prince Frederick Campus of the College of Southern Maryland will close. The Wellness, Fitness and Aquatics services and programs will continue as usual at the college’s La Plata and Leonardtown Fitness and Aquatics Centers.
CSM’s fitness centers and pools remain available at both the La Plata and Leonardtown campuses. These programs offer a wide range of health, wellness and fitness options, including memberships, aquatics and exercise...
Fiske Guide to Colleges 2020 Recognizes St. Mary’s College of Maryland Michael Bruckler October 21, 2019 - 9:50 am
October 21, 2019
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, was recently acknowledged in the 2020 edition of the “Fiske Guide to Colleges.”
For more than 30 years, millions of students, parents, and guidance counselors have relied on the Fiske Guide to Colleges during their college search. Compiled by former New York Times education editor Edward...
SMCM SMCM Alumni Hall, Schuller, and Kimball, and their professor, Jessica Malisch, highlighted in Maryland Ornithological Society Newsletter
SMCM Alumni Hall, Schuller, and Kimball, and their professor, Jessica Malisch, highlighted in Maryland Ornithological Society Newsletter Jessica Malisch October 18, 2019 - 8:36 am
October 18, 2019
St. Mary’s College alumni Lauren Hall ‘19, Livia Shuller ‘19, and Melanie Kimball ‘19, along with their St. Mary’s Project (SMP) mentor, Jessica L. Malisch, assistant professor of physiology, were featured in an article in the September-October Newsletter of the Maryland Ornithological Society...
The Board of Education of Charles County is holding a Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28 in the boardroom at the Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building. The topic will center on the future of public schools. The Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education — also known as the Kirwan Commission — put forth recommendations to improve the quality of the state’s public education system. Board members want to hear what CCPS parents and students, and county residents would like to...
Since 2017, the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) has offered micro-food pantries, named Hawk Feeders, at each of CSM’s four campuses. Hawk Feeders help address the short-term basic food needs any student may be experiencing. Built by a CSM faculty member, the Hawk Feeders are stocked through individual donations by faculty, staff and students as well as through food drives, under the adage, “Give what you can, take what you need.”
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Linda Greer an Invited Lecturer in Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquia Series Michael Bruckler October 17, 2019 - 3:18 pm
October 17, 2019
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Biology Department presents Linda Greer to discuss “The Environmental Impact of Fashion” as part of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquia series. The talk takes place on Nov. 20 at 4:45 p.m. in Schaefer Hall 106.
Greer will discuss the fashion industry’s surprisingly large environmental footprint...
SMCM Associate Professor Gijanto Named English Editor for the Society for Africanist Archaeology bulletin, Nyame Akuma
Associate Professor Gijanto Named English Editor for the Society for Africanist Archaeology bulletin, Nyame Akuma Michael Bruckler October 17, 2019 - 3:00 pm
October 17, 2019
Congratulations to Liza Gijanto, associate professor of anthropology, who was recently named the English editor for the Society for Africanist Archaeology bulletin, Nyame Akuma.
According to the website, The Society of Africanist Archaeologists is an organization of archaeologists, researchers from associated...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) presents an exhibition featuring the work of photographer Lisa Elmaleh, who documented her life in photographs in the rural outskirts of Paw Paw, West Virginia, as she learned to live more deliberately. “the Lightness and the Dark” will be on display in the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery Oct. 28-Dec. 12.
From her website, www.lisaelmaleh.com, Elmaleh writes: “Me and my large-format 8×10″ camera (named Fitzgerald Fitzwilliam Fitzgeorge) go on...
The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) will host the Southern Maryland Concert Band (SMCB) in the Brad and Linda Gottfried Theater at the La Plata Campus Fine Arts Center, Oct. 26.
The SMCB was formed in 1984 by Charles Armstrong as an all-volunteer, non-profit community-based ensemble of adult and student instrumentalists dedicated to performing quality concert band music for audiences in and around Southern Maryland. Armstrong, a former supervisor of music and longtime band director in...
Due to a power outage, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School is closed today, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. SMECO is working to address the issue.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Elementary School students, staff and community members celebrated the recent building renovation and expansion of the school in a special ceremony held Oct. 10. Featured in the ceremony was a project overview, student performances, presentations from elected officials and a key passing ceremony.
Dr. Mudd first opened its doors to students in 1967 in a building that was just under 45,000 square feet in size. Following a two-year renovation and expansion, Dr. Mudd now...
CSM Warm Up This November with Literary Readings, Provocations Lecture Series, Southern Maryland Chamber Chorus, Dual Enrollment Info Sessions and Much Mo
Jericho Brown
CSM Connections Literary Series Reading: Poet Jericho Brown. 7:30 p.m., Nov. 1. College of Southern Maryland (CSM), Prince Frederick Campus, John E. Harms Academic Center (Building A), Room 119, 115 J.W. Williams Road, Prince Frederick. Poet Jericho Brown, an American Book Award Winner, will read from his work, which has been described as “an attempt to fight back against hate in its many guises.” Brown is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program...
SMCM St. Mary’s College Gives Invited Plenary at Council on Undergraduate Research Transformations Project Yearly Meeting
St. Mary’s College Gives Invited Plenary at Council on Undergraduate Research Transformations Project Yearly Meeting Michael Bruckler October 16, 2019 - 9:12 am
October 16, 2019
The Council on Undergraduate Research Transformations Project (CUR-TP) held its third yearly meeting, Oct. 4 - 6, at which meeting participants continued their work on integrating undergraduate research experiences throughout the curriculum. Attending the meeting on behalf of St. Mary’s College of Maryland this...
Around Charles County Public Schools (CCPS), high school drama departments are preparing shows. From October to December, the slate includes family-friendly offerings, farces and comedies, a murder mystery and the story of a refugee’s journey to find his family and himself.
La Plata High School ushers in the fall play season with a comedy. “Leading Ladies” by Ken Ludwig finds two Shakespearean actors who land in York, Pa., — Amish country — staging Shakespeare plays. The two decide to pose...
Charles Co. North Point to hold Career and Technology Education (CTE) open houses for eighth graders
Eighth graders interested in any of North Point High School’s 17 Career and Technology Education (CTE) programs can attend one of two upcoming open houses set at the school.
The events are 6 p.m. Oct. 22 and Nov. 20 with potential students and their families able to tour the programs and learn more. The window to apply for North Point’s CTE programs is 8 a.m. Nov. 25 to 3 p.m. Dec. 20.
Programs at the school include biotechnology, Cisco Networking Academy, cybersecurity, engineering...
St. Mary's Co. St. Mary's County Public Schools to Celebrate National School Lunch Week - October 15-18, 2019
Dr. J. Scott Smith, Superintendent of Schools, 301-475-5511, ext. 32178
Dr. Jeff Walker, Assistant Superintendent of Supporting Services, 301-475-4256, ext. 7
LEONARDTOWN, MD – October 15, 2019, kicks off National School Lunch Week (NSLW). This special week of celebration is designated to bring positive attention to the school lunch program and the impact it has on our school community. On behalf of St. Mary’s County Public Schools, we wanted to extend an invitation to you to visit our...
SMCM Assistant Professor Shanen Sherrer and Colleagues Awarded St. Mary’s College’s First NSF MRI Grant
Assistant Professor Shanen Sherrer and Colleagues Awarded St. Mary’s College’s First NSF MRI Grant Michael Bruckler October 11, 2019 - 2:45 pm
October 11, 2019
St. Mary’s College of Maryland was awarded its first National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) grant using lead investigator Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Shanen Sherrer’s expertise on circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. Geoffrey M. Bowers, assistant professor of chemistry; Randolph K...
St. Mary’s College Presents “We Do Not Beg the Rope: Poems and Music by Aleshea Harris” Michael Bruckler October 11, 2019 - 12:12 pm
October 11, 2019
On Tuesday, Nov. 5 beginning at 7:30 p.m., the Office of the President presents Aleshea Harris in Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall. The event, “We Do Not Beg the Rope: Poems and Music by Aleshea Harris,” is free of charge and open to the public.
An insistence upon the innate worthiness of marginalized people, “We Do Not Beg the...
SMCM Jason Rezaian to Deliver the 2019 Benjamin C. Bradlee Distinguished Lecture in Journalism at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Jason Rezaian to Deliver the 2019 Benjamin C. Bradlee Distinguished Lecture in Journalism at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Michael Bruckler October 11, 2019 - 10:22 am
October 11, 2019
In July of 2014, Jason Rezaian and his wife were detained in their Iranian home and he went on to spend 544 days in Tehran’s Evin prison, released on the same day that the historic nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was implemented. On Wednesday, October 23 at 7 p.m., former U.S. correspondent...