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SMCM St. Mary's College of Maryland Board of Trustees Maintain Flat Tuition Rate for Fourth Consecutive Year

St. Mary's College of Maryland Board of Trustees Maintain Flat Tuition Rate for Fourth Consecutive Year Chuck Steenburgh February 06, 2023 - 10:38 am February 06, 2023 The St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees approved tuition and fees for the 2023-2024 academic year in their meeting on Saturday, February 4, maintaining a fourth consecutive year of no increase in tuition. The Board also received an update on the progress of the College’s strategic plan, as well as news that Moody’s...

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SMCM Garms and Goethel Present Research at Alaska Marine Science Symposium

Garms and Goethel Present Research at Alaska Marine Science Symposium Lee Capristo January 30, 2023 - 10:47 am January 30, 2023 Sophia Garms, environmental studies major in the Class of 2023, presented her research "Investigating the critical thermal maximum of Pacific Arctic Bivalves" at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska, from Jan. 23-27, 2023. Garms' research mentor, Marine Biology Visiting Assistant Professor Christina Goethel, also presented her research "Effects...

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SMCM Prof. Wooley, President of Association of Departments of English

Prof. Wooley, President of Association of Departments of English Gretchen Phillips January 31, 2023 - 2:53 pm January 31, 2023 Christine Wooley, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, recently began a year-long term as president of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) after being named to the position last spring. The ADE supports academic departments focused on studying literature, writing and culture by helping its members successfully lead and manage their...

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SMCM Professor of History Adriana Brodsky Featured Guest on Podcast

Professor of History Adriana Brodsky Featured Guest on Podcast Lee Capristo January 30, 2023 - 4:42 pm January 30, 2023 Professor of History Adriana Brodsky was interviewed by “Bridges to Argentina” podcast host Gabriele Dumpys Woolever as one of a six-part series, “Immigrant Stories & Lives.” The series, directed by Benjamin Bryce, discusses the history of immigration to Argentina. Brodsky’s interview, “This is Not Your Gefilte Fish: Couscous, Cookbooks, and the Making of Modern Argentine...

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SMCM Professor Mertz Gives Invited Talk at UT Austin

Professor Mertz Gives Invited Talk at UT Austin Pamela Mertz January 30, 2023 - 12:08 pm January 30, 2023 Pamela Mertz, professor of chemistry & biochemistry, gave an invited talk at the University of Texas at Austin on January 26, “One Rubric to Rule Them All: The Megalorubric for Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes.” The talk focused on the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s development of a rubric where course assignment grades map onto a program level assessment system...

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SMCM Intercultural Sexual Intimacy and Mixed Marriages

Intercultural Sexual Intimacy and Mixed Marriages Betul Basaran January 22, 2023 - 11:49 am January 22, 2023 Professor Betül Başaran was invited to attend the international conference on the Balance of Justice in the Ottoman Empire, where she talked about her research on intercultural sexual intimacy and mixed marriages among foreigners and Ottoman women in the early modern era. Her paper entitled "Actors and Agents in Murky Legal Waters" emphasized women's agency in such relationships...

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SMCM Professor Williams Published in The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Professor Williams Published in The Journal of Values-Based Leadership Angela Draheim January 12, 2023 - 4:16 pm January 12, 2023 Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Nutt-Williams and colleagues recently published an article entitled "Cultivating Authentic Leaders: Toward Conceptual Coherence and Sustainable Practice" in The Journal of Values-Based Leadership. As a follow-up to their empirical study of global authentic leaders (Williams et al., 2021), the authors wanted to better...

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SMCM Professor of Art Sue Johnson Awarded Individual Artist Fellowship

Professor of Art Sue Johnson Awarded Individual Artist Fellowship Lee Capristo January 07, 2023 - 2:40 pm January 07, 2023 Professor of Art Sue Johnson has been awarded a prestigious 2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. One of eight artists in the state of Virginia to receive this award, Johnson will use the fellowship support to complete work on her forthcoming artist book, "Burn a Pan Tonight: Still Life with Woman." The project focuses on images of women...

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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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