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vCalc Internships Lead to Products of Global Use

This summer a group of students at SMCM are completing internships with vCalc.com. The site is a crowd-sourced calculating encyclopedia, a “Wikipedia for equations,” Chris Lynch, a vCalc intern, commented. The student’s internships involved coding equations and calculators for a variety of fields of study alongside highly detailed explanations. “We want to make this as Find out more »

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Completes Building Campaign and Names Athletic Stadium Complex

St. Mary’s College of Maryland announced today it has completed the College’s building campaign, raising $2.5 million in private gifts. Reaching the fundraising goal now allows the College to utilize approximately $76 million in State of Maryland funding for a new academic building with an auditorium and a new athletic stadium complex. “Thank you to Find out more »

Goats tackle invasive kudzu on campus

Kudzu is an aggressive invasive plant species found all across the United States, including on the campus of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Research has shown that goats can be used as an effective biological control agent against kudzu. This is the focus of a St. Mary’s Project (SMP) by Brooke Bartko ’16. Bartko’s research Find out more »

Professor Katharina von Kellenbach Joins Network of Scholars

Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies, has successfully participated in a network grant proposal to fund a network of scholars over the next three years. This news follows a talk von Kellenbach was invited to give at the German Film Premiere of Regina: The Story of the World’s First Woman Rabbi Regina Jonas in Berlin in November, 2015.

St. Mary’s College Professors Awarded NSF Grant Funding New Emerging Scholars Program

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Professor of Mathematics Sandy Ganzell and Associate Professor of Mathematics Casey Douglas have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will support a research program for undergraduate students, to be held three summers over a five-year period at St. Mary’s College. The seven-week program is a Find out more »

St. Mary’s College, vCalc LLC Collaboration Wins MIPS Grant

St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been awarded a $97,361 grant, jointly funded by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program and vCalc LLC. The grant will fund student research and development of high-value, college-level math formulas and data for vCalc.com, a Wiki-based crowd-sourced calculating encyclopedia with over 7,000 calculators and users in over 100 countries. Find out more »

St. Mary’s College, Calvert County Partner to Document Piscataway Indian Historic Sites

St. Mary’s College of Maryland in partnership with the Calvert County Historic Preservation Commission recently received funding from the National Park Service’s Underrepresented Communities Grant. The College and CCHPC will work with the Piscataway Conoy Tribe to document seven historically significant Piscataway Indian landscapes in Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s, and St. Mary’s counties. The Underrepresented Find out more »

Assistant Professor Liza Gijanto Awarded Funding from Preservation Maryland

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor of Anthropology Liza Gijanto has received funding for her project, “Cremona Collections Curation and National Register Preparation,” from the Heritage Fund, a joint program sponsored by Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust.

St. Mary’s College, NAWCAD Collaboration to Expand Beyond Physics

The unique collaboration between St. Mary’s College of Maryland Department of Physics and the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is expanding to two additional academic departments, chemistry and mathematics, at the public honors college. Funding to support the expansion comes from The Patuxent Partnership (TPP), which will contribute to St. Mary’s College $180,000 Find out more »

Associate Professor Betül Başaran Awarded NEH Grant to Lead Summer Seminar

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Betül Başaran has received a prestigious institutional grant for St. Mary’s College of Maryland from the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a four-week seminar for college and university professors in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2016.