On November 8, 2017, five St. Mary’s County high school students were presented with book awards at the 20th annual Phi Beta Kappa Book Award Ceremony hosted by the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Women’s March on Washington Organizer Linda Sarsour to Speak at St. Mary’s College
On Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 4:45 p.m., in Auerbach Auditorium at St. Mary’s Hall, Linda Sarsour, social justice advocate and civil rights activist, will be the Margaret Brent Lecture series guest speaker. The event is free of charge and open to the public. Sarsour is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of Find out more »
Eberly to discuss new book on Trump administration
On Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Daugherty-Palmer Commons at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Todd Eberly, associate professor of political science, will talk about “The Trump Presidency: Outsider in the Oval Office,” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) a recently released book he co-authored with Steven E. Schier. The book offers context and insight grounded 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 »
SMCM Student’s Photo Published in Chemistry in Pictures
Chemistry student and photographer Lynn Stevens ’19 had a photo published in the American Chemical Society’s Chemistry in Pictures website. Working with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dan Chase, Stevens combined the chemicals β-ketoiminato boron difluoride and 4-N,N-dimethylbenzaldehyde through a Knoevenagel Condensation resulting in fluorescent dyes. After purifying her reaction mixture through a column of silica, Find out more »
Alumna Participates in Collaborative Conservation Effort
Alumna Nicole Zimmerman ’14, recently spent a week capturing and tagging Columbia spotted frogs in the remote Indian Valley in central Nevada, along with other volunteers and biologists from state and federal agencies. Called “Frog Week,” this collaborative conservation effort has led to the removal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Columbia Find out more »
Center for the Study of Democracy Announces February and March Events
Monday, Feb. 20; Tuesday, Feb. 28; Wednesday, March 8 St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Democracy announces three February and March events that are free of charge and open to the public. Migration Crisis in Europe: Is America a Bystander? Takes place on Monday, Feb. 20, 6 p.m., in Cole Cinema, Find out more »
Message from the President: St. Mary’s College’s PEACE Program
June 24, 2015 In recent months, emails from concerned alumni and students about human rights conditions in the Gambia have been on the increase. As you are aware, our PEACE program has a memorandum of understanding with The University of the Gambia. St. Mary’s College also presented Gambia PresidentYahya Jammeh an honorary degree in 2004. Find out more »
One-Person Exhibition by Professor of Art Sue Johnson on Display through June 1
Professor of Art Sue Johnson’s latest exhibition, “Ready-Made Dream,” will be on display through June 1 at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Art Center, in Fayetteville, Ark.
A New Graphic Identity
St. Mary’s College of Maryland today unveiled a new graphic identity designed to celebrate and solidify the college’s strengths and recognition among the nation’s best colleges and universities. A ‘soft’ rollout of the new graphic identity, designed by Claude Skelton Design, began in March on the college’s website. Key aspects of the new design: St. Find out more »