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Refugees in Germany and Europe Exhibit

Associate Professor Anne Leblans and the students in her German classes created an exhibition regarding Syrian refugees in Europe and Germany. The show opened on April 28, and continues to be featured in the Upper Commons of Montgomery Hall. The exhibition includes photographs, descriptions, and interviews of the refugees, and focuses upon the experiences of Syrian refugees fleeing a Find out more »

Art History Professor Joe Lucchesi’s Exhibit Opens at the Smithsonian

Joe Lucchesi, associate professor of art history at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and coordinator of the college’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, was consulting curator of “The Art of Romaine Brooks,” an exhibition that opened June 17 at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. The exhibition runs through October 2 and includes several of Find out more »

Officer Brasko Honored

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Public Safety Officer Lori Brasko has been selected by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) to receive the 2016 IACLEA Award for Valor. Officer Brasko will be recognized at this year’s annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, June 25, 2016. She was nominated by Tressa Setlak, Find out more »

Russell Rhine Tapped for Congressional Committee

Russell Rhine, associate professor of economics, has been selected to work for Congress during the fall semester. He will be a senior economist with the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, a bipartisan bicameral committee. Rhine will conduct economic analysis and make policy recommendations to legislators in both houses of Congress. He has been approved Find out more »

Sociology Professor Louis Hicks Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Award

Louis Hicks, professor of sociology, is a summer scholar awardee for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on American Veterans in Society. The institute will be held in July at Virginia Tech. Hicks is co-editor of a two-volume book, “The Civilian Lives of U.S. Veterans: Issues and Identities,” slated for publication in December Find out more »

Faculty Recognized for Outstanding Work at Awards Convocation

On April 22, 2016, five faculty were recognized for their outstanding work as part of the annual Awards Convocation. The awards and the recipients are as follows: The Homer L. Dodge Award for Outstanding Service was established in 1985 by the late Norton Dodge, who served on the board of trustees of St. Mary’s College Find out more »

Charles Adler invited speaker at New York and Chicago institutions

“Where is the Science in all that Fiction?” was the title of the talk given by St. Mary’s College Professor of Physics Charles Adler at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, this May. Professor Adler gave two talks, on physics education research conducted at St. Mary’s College and on material from his award-winning book, “Wizards, Aliens Find out more »

Professor Kelly Neiles, student Ivy Todd published in Journal of Chemical Education

Kelly Neiles, assistant professor of chemistry, and Ivy Todd (‘16) published the paper “Establishing the Validity of Using Network Analysis Software for Measuring Students’ Mental Storage of Chemistry Concepts” in the Journal of Chemical Education. The paper covers two studies that introduce a novel method for investigating students’ structural knowledge of chemistry topics using a program called Pathfinder.