Associate Professor of Educational Studies Lin Muilenburg and 2013 MAT grad Abigail Maclean-Blevins received an Outstanding Poster Award at the EdMedia 2013 Conference in Victoria, British Columbia. The accompanying peer-reviewed research paper entitled “Using Class Dojo to Support Student Self-regulation” will appear in the Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Find out more »
Dowla Presents Paper at European Research Conference
Professor of Economics Asif Dowla presented a paper, “Bankers to the Poor, Bother to the State — Political Risks in Microfinance”, at the Third European Research Conference on Microfinance held in Kristiansand, Norway, June 10-12. Dowla holds the Landers Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s.
Hicks and Colleague Publish Chapter in Book
Professor of Sociology Louis Hicks and his colleague Paul Kingston of the University of Virginia, have published a chapter entitled “The United States: Changing Recognition of Racial and Ethnic Diversity” in a new book from McGill-Queen’s University Press, Multicultural Variations: Social Incorporation in Europe and North America. The book is the 13th in a series Find out more »
Ramcharitar and Students Present Research at Bioacoustics Symposium
Associate Professor of Biology John Ramcharitar presented a poster titled, “Lateral Line – Evoked Potentials (LLEPs): An Effective Tool for Investigating Ototoxicity,” at the Underwater Bioacoustics Symposium in Sarasota, Florida. Student co-authors included Samuel Knecht and James Tomkinson, who contributed significantly to the development and refinement of a novel physiological technique for assessing drug toxicity Find out more »
King Book Receives Award of Merit
Associate Professor of Anthropology Julia King‘s book, Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland, has been recognized by the American Association of State and Local History with a 2013 Award of Merit. AASLH Awards of Merit recognize excellence for projects, including publications, exhibits, educational programs, and other special projects. Find out more »
Kira Schwartz ’14 Wins Scholarship for German Summer Study
Kira R. Schwartz ’14 will study German in Berlin this summer as the winner of the College Student Scholarship for Summer Study of German. The scholarship was awarded by the Board of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Maryland/DC-Metro Chapter. Schwartz will participate in the Middlebury College Summer School Program in Berlin, where Find out more »
SMCM Students Win Third, Fifth Place in American Chemistry Society Contest
St. Mary’s College of Maryland chemistry students Joshua Olexa ’13 and Greg Trieger ’13 won third and fifth place respectively at the American Chemistry Society’s Speak Simply Undergraduate Research Poster Contest. The contest took place this past April at the 245th American Chemical Society National Convention in New Orleans. Read more.
St. Mary’s College’s Garner Endowed Scholarship Awarded to St. Mary’s Ryken Senior
On Friday, April 12, during an official signing ceremony on the campus of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s Ryken High School senior Jonathan Bland formally accepted the St. Mary’s College Joseph and Kathleen Garner Endowed Scholarship. Read more.
Megan O’Hern Wins First Prize at Regional History Honor Society Conference
Megan O’Hern, a history major at St. Mary’s College, won first prize at the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, which was held at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV, on March 23. Her award-winning paper is titled “The Devil Didn’t Make You Do It: The Puritan Clerical Discourse on Satan in Seventeenth-Century New England.” Find out more »
Students Infuse 1,000 Hours of Service into Local Community
St. Mary’s College of Maryland proudly launches St. Mary’s College Cares, a student-driven, community-service campaign. The St. Mary’s College Cares campaign, which will be an ongoing initiative to promote student volunteerism, will kick off in April, National Volunteer Month, with a goal to infuse 1,000 community-service hours into the St. Mary’s County community in an Find out more »