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St. Mary’s College of Maryland Ranks No. 1 among Peace Corps’ top volunteer-producing small colleges

February 22, 2018

Peace Corps Top Colleges logo

In its 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, the Peace Corps announced this week that St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked no. 1 among small schools. This is the second consecutive year St. Mary’s College of Maryland has ranked among the top five small-sized schools. SMCM ranked No. 4 last year. “Peace Corps Find out more »

Filed Under: Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Dedicates The Alumni Center at Cobb House

September 25, 2017

The Alumni Center at Cobb House, the long-standing, newly renovated building, will house the Office of Alumni Relations and provide dedicated space for alumni and the campus community to gather. “The multiple meeting rooms and state-of-the-art presentation system included in the renovations make this an ideal space for student programming, and in fact, we’ve hosted Find out more »

Filed Under: Announcements, Featured News Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

Over 1,200 Alumni Welcomed Back to Campus for Alumni Weekend, June 8-11

June 20, 2017

Alumni Weekend Crabs and Knocker

St. Mary’s College of Maryland welcomed over 1,200 alumni back to campus June 8-11 for Alumni Weekend. Alumni from 1949 to 2017 traveled to campus from as far away as Ireland, Scotland, and Italy. They also came from 34 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The weekend was highlighted by consistently sunny weather in Find out more »

Filed Under: Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

Alums’ Pet Collar wins $100K

April 24, 2017

Chord collar

Jared Marmen ’00 and Courtney Young Marmen ’02 launched Chord in 2014, a pet collar with phone app for dog and cat owners to use for force-free positive rewards-based training (http://chordcollar.com) The idea was pitched successfully in the “Shark Tank Susquehanna” for Harford and Cecil Counties, Md., received TEDCO prototype funding, won the rural innovation Find out more »

Filed Under: Laurels, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Laurels, Office of Alumni Relations

Boyle ’10 Celebrates a Decade of Endurance sports with Upcoming Triathlon

April 18, 2017

St. Mary’s College alumnus Brian Boyle ’10 returns to St. Mary’s College on Sat. June 17 to compete in the International distance of the St. Mary’s Triathlon Festival. It’s Boyle’s 10th year competing in endurance sports following a near fatal car accident. After recovering and while a St. Mary’s College student, Boyle trained on campus Find out more »

Filed Under: Accomplishments, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Office of Alumni Relations

Erin Knutson ’15 Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship

March 24, 2017

Erin Knutson ’15 (physics) was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship through its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Knutson is currently studying atomic, molecular, and optical physics in the physics doctoral program at Tulane University. “The fact that the NSF is willing to fund my research means they see a lot of promise in Find out more »

Filed Under: Faculty & Staff, Laurels, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Laurels, Office of Alumni Relations, Physics

Troy Townsend Quoted in Electro Optics Magazine

March 15, 2017

Troy Townsend ’07, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently quoted in an article by Gemma Church for Electro Optics Magazine titled “Shining examples” where Church reported on companies and researchers that are finding new ways to integrate solar technology into urban environments. Find out what Townsend had to say about the global population, its ever-growing Find out more »

Filed Under: Faculty & Staff, Laurels, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Chemistry, Laurels, Office of Alumni Relations

Author and Reporter Neil Irwin ’00 to Deliver 2017 Commencement Address

March 14, 2017

Neil Irwin

St. Mary’s College of Maryland is pleased to announce that Neil Irwin ’00, senior economic correspondent at The New York Times and author of “The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire” (Penguin Press, 2013), will deliver St. Mary’s College’s commencement address. The commencement ceremony will be held on the college’s Townhouse Green Find out more »

Filed Under: Campus & Community, Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

St. Mary’s College Makes The List, Alumni Volunteers Make It Happen

March 2, 2017

  In its 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, the Peace Corps announced this week that St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked no. 4 among small schools. “Peace Corps service is an unparalleled leadership opportunity that enables college and university alumni to use the creative-thinking skills they developed in school to make an Find out more »

Filed Under: Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

Alumna Receives Underwater Archaeology Scholarship

February 10, 2017

Madeline “Maddie” Roth ’14 recently received the Cecilia Connelly Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Underwater Archaeology, one of the undergraduate and non-academic scholarships and training grants offered each year by the Women Divers Hall of Fame for diving related disciplines including marine biology, conservation, teaching, and underwater archaeology. Roth is currently an M.A. student in the Maritime Studies Program Find out more »

Filed Under: Laurels, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Laurels, Office of Alumni Relations

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