Assistant Professor Townsend Published in Journal of Advanced Materials Interfaces Michael Bruckler February 10, 2020 - 2:49 pm
February 10, 2020
St. Mary’s College’s Assistant Professor of Chemistry Troy Townsend recently had an article published in the Journal of Advanced Materials Interfaces titled “Bathless Inorganic Composite Nickel Plating: Dry‐Cell Stamping of Large Hygroscopic Phosphor Crystals.”
Townsend and his students developed a radically new method of electroplating...
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So. Md Education News
News from the local county public and private schools and colleges.
St. Mary’s College to Host Maryland Election Administration Forum Michael Bruckler February 10, 2020 - 9:28 am
February 10, 2020
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Democracy, along with the Maryland State Board of Elections, will host a Maryland Election Administration Forum on Thursday, March 12, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at Cole Cinema, Campus Center on the College’s campus. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
The Maryland Election Administration...
SMCM University of Maryland Professor Mitchelmore Poses the Question, “Are Sunscreens Killing Our Coral Reefs?”
University of Maryland Professor Mitchelmore Poses the Question, “Are Sunscreens Killing Our Coral Reefs?” Michael Bruckler February 06, 2020 - 12:12 pm
February 06, 2020
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 4:45 – 6 p.m., Professor Carys Mitchelmore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, will discuss aquatic toxicology and coral reefs. Her lecture, titled “Are Sunscreens Killing Our Coral Reefs?” takes place in Schaefer Hall, room 106 on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland...
Professor Sue Johnson Awarded Fully-Funded Residency Fellowship Michael Bruckler February 05, 2020 - 11:27 am
February 05, 2020
Sue Johnson, professor of art, has been awarded a fully-funded residency fellowship by The Millay Colony for the Arts. The colony is one of the oldest multidisciplinary artist residencies in the world. Since its inception by Norma Millay in 1973, thousands of writers, poets, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, filmmakers, and composers have been invited...
SMCM St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Board of Trustees Approve New Test Optional Admission Policy for Fall 2021
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Board of Trustees Approve New Test Optional Admission Policy for Fall 2021 Michael Bruckler February 04, 2020 - 1:00 pm
February 04, 2020
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Board of Trustees approved a new test optional admissions policy on Saturday, February 1, 2020. This means first-year applicants seeking admission to the College beginning in the fall of 2021 may choose whether or not to provide standardized testing (SAT or ACT scores) as part of the...
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Presents ESPN Analyst and Bestselling Author Jay Williams Michael Bruckler February 04, 2020 - 11:31 am
February 04, 2020
The Office of the President presents ESPN analyst and bestselling author Jay Williams on March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland campus. Part of the Presidential Lecture Series, the event is free of charge and open to the public but reservations are required at...
David Froom Wins National Composers Competition David Froom February 03, 2020 - 9:38 am
February 03, 2020
Professor of Music David Froom's clarinet concerto, "Canzoni di Notte" has been announced as the first prize-winner of the Riverside Symphony's National Composers Competition. As the winner, this work will receive its premiere performance in Alice Tully Hall (New York City), conducted by George Rothman and featuring clarinet soloist Narek Arutyunian. The concert will be on Saturday...
SMCM St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Board of Trustees Freeze Tuition and Fees for 2020-2021 Academic Year
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Board of Trustees Freeze Tuition and Fees for 2020-2021 Academic Year Michael Bruckler February 01, 2020 - 11:53 am
February 01, 2020
Today the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s College of Maryland announced a freeze in tuition, fees, and room and board costs for the 2020-2021 academic year. The decision was made after a review of recommendations from a Board of Trustees Task Force, formed in 2019 at the request of President Tuajuanda C. Jordan. The Task...
Alumnus Ethan Elliott '06 Receives NASA Medal Joshua Grossman January 31, 2020 - 12:42 pm
January 31, 2020
St. Mary's College alumnus Ethan Elliott, who was a physics major in the class of 2006, received a NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal on October 29, 2019, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA awards the medal for “unusual and significant performance during the first 10 years of an individual’s early career. The contribution is significant in that, for an employee who...
SMCM Professor of Biology Karen Crawford Presents “CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing in the Cephalopod Doryteuthis (Loligo) pealeii” at the Annual Meeting for the
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford Presents “CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing in the Cephalopod Doryteuthis (Loligo) pealeii” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Karen Crawford January 29, 2020 - 10:49 am
January 29, 2020
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford's presentation was selected as an oral presentation in a complementary session in the 2020 SICB Symposium "Building Bridges from Genome to Phenome: Molecules, Methods and Models," held January 3-7...
Sci-Fi Authors' Panel to Feature Local and Best-Selling Authors Michael Bruckler January 29, 2020 - 10:33 am
January 29, 2020
Following the successful celebration of Professor Thomas M. Barrett marking the opening of the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Archives and Boyden Gallery exhibition, “Robots, Rayguns, and Alternate Views of Reality: Experiencing Art Through the Sci-Fi Paperback Collection in the SMCM Archives," The Boyden Gallery is pleased to announce a sci-fi authors' panel is...
Assistant Professor Latchney Published in Behavioural Brain Research Aileen Bailey January 28, 2020 - 3:49 pm
January 28, 2020
Sarah Latchney, assistant professor of neurobiology, has recently been published in Behavioural Brain Research titled, “Indices of dentate gyrus neurogenesis are unaffected immediately after or following withdrawal from morphine self-administration compared to saline self-administering control male rats.”
In this article, Latchney and colleagues examined changes...
Assistant Professor Jessica Malisch Presents her Research at Conference Gretchen Phillips January 28, 2020 - 1:39 pm
January 28, 2020
Assistant Professor of Physiology Jessica Malisch presented “Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? Predictors of Facultative Altitudinal Migration in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held January 3-7, in Austin,Texas.
Malisch spoke about her current...
SMCM Professor Bartow and Associate Research & Instruction Librarian Mann Lead Workshop at AACU Conference
Professor Bartow and Associate Research & Instruction Librarian Mann Lead Workshop at AACU Conference Michael Bruckler January 27, 2020 - 10:14 am
January 27, 2020
Joanna Bartow, professor of Spanish, and Pamela Mann, associate research & instruction librarian for the arts & humanities, led a workshop titled “Community-Based Spanish and Critical Information Literacy” on October 18, 2019, at the AACU Conference of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community and Careers: Crossing Borders and...
Student Emily Rudo ’23 Invited Panelists at NOAA Chesapeake Bay Environmental Literacy Forum Michael Bruckler January 27, 2020 - 10:02 am
January 27, 2020
Emily Rudo ’23, an environmental studies and public policy studies double major, educational studies minor from Howard County, Maryland, was one of four invited panelists at the biennial NOAA Chesapeake Bay Environmental Literacy Forum held on January 22, 2020, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Rudo offered a student perspective on...
SMCM Frantz, Shirey and Thompson to Present at AAC&U Diversity, Equity, & Student Success Conference
Frantz, Shirey and Thompson to Present at AAC&U Diversity, Equity, & Student Success Conference Michael Bruckler January 23, 2020 - 4:09 pm
January 23, 2020
Misty Frantz and Kate Shirey of the Career Development Center, and Janna Thompson, assistant professor of educational studies, have been selected for a poster presentation at this year’s AAC&U Diversity, Equity, & Student Success Conference. The focus of their presentation is “Academic Credit Given to Career Services Creates Equity”...
St. Mary’s College’s Black Student Union Announces MK Asante as 2020 Barber Walker Lecturer Michael Bruckler January 23, 2020 - 3:53 pm
January 23, 2020
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Black Student Union announces MK Asante as the third Annual Elizabeth Barber Walker Lecture guest speaker. Asante’s lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall on the College’s campus. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
Asante...
Ikizler Quoted in Monitor on Psychology Angela Draheim January 22, 2020 - 3:12 pm
January 22, 2020
In January 2020, Assistant Professor of Psychology Ayse Ikizler was quoted in the "Monitor on Psychology" in an article on the AMENA-Psy (American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association) organization of which she is co-founder and president.
AMENA-Psy aims to expand and support the MENA American psychologist workforce and to foster the well-being of Arab, Middle...
An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Michael Bruckler January 22, 2020 - 11:54 am
January 22, 2020
The Office of the President presents “Nurturing the Compassionate Community: An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton” on Saturday, February 29 at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) in Daugherty-Palmer Commons. The event, co-sponsored by the VOICES Reading Series, is free of charge and open to the public. The evening will feature poetry...
SMCM St. Mary’s College Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black Winner of the $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
St. Mary’s College Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black Winner of the $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching Michael Bruckler January 22, 2020 - 10:14 am
January 22, 2020
Baylor University has named Jennifer Cognard-Black, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, as the 2020 recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
Awarded biennually, The Cherry Award is a prestigious national teaching award – with the single, largest monetary reward of...