Amanda Deerfield, assistant professor of economics, and Sriparna Ghosh, visiting professor of economics, presented research at the Association of Private Enterprise Education in Las Vegas, Nevada, in April. Deerfield’s research in “Examining the Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Ridesharing Legislation” found that states with less economic freedom take longer to pass ridesharing legislation. Her research Find out more »
St. Mary’s College student Miller ’18 Wins First Place at Conference of the Mathematical Association of America
St. Mary’s College student Ian Miller ’18, mathematics major, won first place for student presentations at the recent sectional conference of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which was hosted at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. His talk, entitled “A Combinatorial Argument in a Packing Problem,” was based on Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Students Present at 2018 National Conference on Undergraduate Research
St. Mary’s College students and faculty traveled to the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Okla., for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Accepted students are invited to present their undergraduate research from a variety of disciplines. After a competitive review, three St. Mary’s College students were awarded the opportunity to share their research and academic Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Student Orban ’20 Lands Fellowship at National Institute of Standards and Technology
This summer, Peter Orban, class of 2020, will conduct an Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (U.S. Department of Commerce) Physical Measurement Laboratory in Gaithersburg, Md. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the nation’s premiere research institutions for the physical and engineering sciences and, as the lead Federal Find out more »
Anthropology Students Presented at Annual AnthroPlus Graduate Student Conference
Three St. Mary’s College students majoring in anthropology, Patrick Martin ’18, Rita Druffner ’18, and Matthew Borden ’19, presented their work recently at the University of Maryland College Park annual AnthroPlus graduate student conference. St. Mary’s College alumna Katie Boyle ’14 also attended the conference with the students. Martin’s presentation was based upon his St. Mary’s Find out more »
Professor Williams published in APA Handbook of the Psychology
Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Nutt Williams is co-author of the article “Feminist Critique of and Integration With Diagnostic and Therapeutic Treatment Models” in the “APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women: Vol. 2. Perspectives on Women’s Private and Public Lives,” edited by C. B. Travis & J. W. White (2017).
St. Mary’s College Faculty and Staff Present at “Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape” Conference
Members of St. Mary’s College’s faculty and staff participated in the conference, Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape, which took place at the University of Virginia, Oct. 18 – 20, 2017. More than 500 people attended the three-day conference, which also included speakers from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Program Exemplified by Paper Focusing on Women of Color in Physics
Angela Johnson, professor of educational studies at St. Mary’s College, was published in the September issue of The Physics Teacher by the American Association of Physics Teachers. The September issue is themed on race and physics, and Johnson’s paper documents and validates the challenges that women of color in physics face, including the activation of stereotypes, Find out more »
Professor Cognard-Black Publishes Article About Honors Programs and Colleges in the U.S.
Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Cognard-Black recently co-authored the article “Demography of Honors: The Census of U.S. Honors Programs and Colleges.” The article uses new data that allowed Cognard-Black and his collaborators for the first time to identify common administrative structures and curricular features of honors programs and honors colleges in the United States. Richard I. Find out more »
Alumna and College Faculty published in Scientific Reports
St. Mary’s College alumna Kaitlyn Thompson ’16 and College faculty collaborated with The Chesapeake Biological Lab on the paper titled “Sulfate Reduction in Sediments Produces High Levels of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter” recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. Thompson’s St. Mary’s Project research at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science – Chesapeake Find out more »