Colman Welles ’20, chemistry major, recently earned the Earnest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Only 120 undergraduate students per year receive tuition support and paid summer internships with NOAA across the county in this highly competitive program. The Hollings Scholarship Program provides successful undergraduate applicants with awards that include academic Find out more »
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Initiates Four-Year Transformations Project
On behalf of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations Project, consultant Bridget Gourley recently spent two days with St. Mary’s College chemistry and biochemistry faculty, and consultant David Strohmetz spent two days with psychology faculty. This was the initial visit of the CUR team, with the goals to introduce the external consultants to the Find out more »
St. Mary’s College of Maryland a Top 25 Hidden Gem for Women in STEM by CollegeRaptor.com
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been listed among the Top 25 Hidden Gems for Women in STEM by CollegeRaptor.com, a higher education planning tool that offers side-by-side comparisons of colleges. According to CollegeRaptor.com, “STEM fields are the fastest growing career market out there, yet only 6.7 percent of college-going women graduate with a STEM Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Participates in Council on Undergraduate Research Transformations Project
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations Project will kick off this weekend, October 27-29, at The College of New Jersey, where the CUR-recruited consultants and departmental teams will begin their sustained work together for the next four years. Attending the meeting on behalf of St. Mary’s College is administrative co-lead of the project, Christine Find out more »
Sydney S. Cunniff ’17 Places Second at Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium
Chemistry and biochemistry major Sydney S. Cunniff ’17 presented part of her St. Mary’s Project research, overseen by Geoffrey Bowers, assistant professor of chemistry, at the regional Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences. According to Sydney, “I completed the data collection while at Pacific Northwest National Lab. My research looked at a 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 »
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 »
Student Randy Larsen ’19 Admitted to Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
St. Mary’s College student Randy Larsen IV ’19 spent the summer interning at the Women’s Malignancies Branch of the National Cancer Institute. Under Senior Investigator Patricia Steeg, the lab focused on the mechanisms of how breast cancer metastasizes into the brain. Larsen’s day-to-day mentor was researcher Lin Xiao. “Working with Dr. Xiao, my project focused Find out more »
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Troy Townsend ’07 Talks Clean Energy at TEDxLeonardtown
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor of Chemistry Troy Townsend ’07 will be one of the featured speakers during the “Creating Change Locally” TEDxLeonardtown event taking place on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Leonardtown High School, 23995 Point Lookout Road. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxleonardtown-tickets-34524292087 Townsend Find out more »
Bowers Awarded Instrument Time at National Lab
Geoffrey Bowers, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently approved instrument time to conduct research in the coming summer with the possibility of continuing for a second summer at the William R. Wiley Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The approval was obtained via a grant proposal. The approved instrument time Find out more »
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