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 »
Dowla Published on the Issue of Adaptation to Climate Change
Asif Dowla, professor of economics and Landers Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts, published an article “Climate Change and Microfinance” in the journal Business Strategy and Development. The article https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bsd2.13 examines how microfinance institutions that provide collateral-free loans (mostly to women) can help their borrowers deal with consequences of climate change. The article suggests that these institutions will Find out more »
Brodsky to be Published in Upcoming book “Global Jewish Foodways: A History”
Adriana M Brodsky, associate professor of history, has a chapter, titled “The Battle against Guefilte Fish: Asserting Sephardi Culinary Repertoires among Argentine Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,” included in the upcoming book “Global Jewish Foodways: A History” (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The book chronicles the culinary habits of migrating Jewish Find out more »
Tredway Published in Journal “Fashion, Style & Popular Culture”
Kristi Tredway, visiting assistant professor at St. Mary’s College, has had an article published in the journal “Fashion, Style & Popular Culture,” with co-author Rita Liberti, professor of kinesiology at California State University – East Bay. The article, “‘All Frocked Up in Purple’: Rosie Casals, Virginia Slims, and the Politics of Fashion at Wimbledon, 1972,” Find out more »
Four St. Mary’s College Students’ Photography Selected for Exhibition in Fotogalleriet Oslo, Norway
Four St. Mary’s College students – Nick Conroy ’18, Conner Dorbin ’18, Carl Freeman ’19 and Cecelia Marquez’18 – participated in a photography workshop led by acclaimed photographer Anne-Stine Johnsbråten, as part of advanced photography course during the 2017 fall semester. Their photography projects, which begin in the workshop, have been selected to be exhibited Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Commemoration Update
The Commemoration Committee of St. Mary’s College of Maryland is working with several common themes developed from its focus group work to help conceptualize the area where evidence of slave quarters was uncovered during an archaeological site survey on Mattapany Road. According to Jeffrey Coleman, Commemoration Committee chair and professor of English and African and Find out more »
Professor Emerita Taylor Publishes New Book Examining St. Mary’s County
Professor Emerita of Theater, Film and Media Studies (Dance) Merideth Taylor’s new book “Listening In: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother County,” (University of Virginia Press, 2018) will be published this June. Pre-orders are available on Amazon. A book release celebration will take place on the St. Mary’s College campus in October (details to follow). Find out more »
Ganzell a Featured Artist in the St. Mary’s County Arts Council Exhibition
Maribeth Ganzell, St. Mary’s College club sports trainer and coordinator, is the featured artist in the St. Mary’s County Arts Council exhibition currently showing at the Lexington Park Library in Lexington Park, Md. The show, titled “Life Without Target,” features Ganzell’s original photographs from West Africa. While living in The Gambia, Ganzell integrated herself into Find out more »
Grossman Published in Physics Today, Makes Case for Liberal Arts
Josh Grossman, associate professor and chair of the physics department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, has had a letter published in Physics Today, the magazine of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Titled, “Broad Academic Experience is Best,” the letter rebuts a critique of broad educational requirements in U.S. higher education. Grossman cites several points of Find out more »
Casey Published in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Emily Casey, assistant professor of art history, had an essay published this week on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The timeline is an invaluable public resource for the study of the history of art, from one of the most prestigious art museums in the country. Titled, “Visual Culture of the Atlantic World,” Find out more »
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