Associate Professors of Computer Science Lindsay Jamieson and Alan Jamieson have received a $5,000 Google CS Engagement Award.
Assistant Professor Heather Moon Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Heather Moon has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project, “Collaborative Research: Data-Driven Applications Inspiring Upper-Division Mathematics.”
Alumni present research at Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Allison Griffin ’14 , Katie McGinnis ’14, Sam Hirsh ’16, Utsav Gyawali ’14, Keighly Bradbrook ’14 and Hannah Dantrassy ’14 attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the premier international conference in neuroscience, on November 15-19 to present their SMP research. Abstracts of their poster presentations can be found here, here and here.
Mystery Ring Unearthed by St. Mary’s College Faculty, Students Believed to Belong to Charles Calvert
St. Mary’s College of Maryland anthropology professor Julia King and her student crew members discovered a 17th-century signet ring with the initials “CC,” believed to be that of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore. King and her students found the artifact during a six-week excavation this summer at the Zekiah Fort, located in Waldorf, Md. “If Find out more »
Don’t Let Doing the Dishes Do You Part
If you are thinking about getting married, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor of Psychology Renée Peltz Dennison would like to offer this advice: be very clear beforehand about what your expectations are for marriage. In Dennison’s recent study, “The Role of Couple Discrepancies in Cognitive and Behavioral Egalitarianism in Marital Quality,” she and colleagues Brian Find out more »
Q&A with Professor Karen Crawford: Paper on the Mexican Axolotl
Professor Karen Crawford of the biology department was published in the March 2014 issue of Nature Protocols, an online journal of laboratory protocols for bench researchers, and was awarded the publication’s cover shot. Featured was a paper that she co-authored during her sabbatical, entitled “Optimized Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) Husbandry, Breeding, Metamorphosis, Transgenesis and Tamoxifen-mediated Recombination.” With a Find out more »
A Matter of Physics
By Andrea Hein, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division communications support A Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) physicist at the labs here is doing more than just helping the Navy develop new technologies and practices — he’s also helping young men and women complete their college degrees. For more than 10 years, Dr. Frank Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Celebrates The Gambia’s Independence Day
Celebration Held in Conjunction with Artist Heather Layton’s Global “59 Days of Independence” Project In the afternoon on Feb. 18 members of the St. Mary’s College campus and local community gathered in the college’s Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall, to celebrate The Gambia’s Independence Day—marking the country’s 49th anniversary. The celebration attracted a large crowd of students Find out more »
Cranking Up the Heat in Organic Chemistry
When you think of organic chemistry, what comes to mind? Perhaps structures, properties and reactions? For St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor Leah Eller, microwaves can also be thrown into that mix. Eller’s colleagues Shaun Murphree of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and Jun Shin of Queensborough Community College in New York agree that microwaves Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Alumnus Honored as Finalist for American Physical Society Award
Jeremy Perrin ’13 has been recognized as one of five finalists for the American Physical Society’s (APS) LeRoy Apker Award. This award is given for excellence in undergraduate research in physics, and rewards young physicists for their scientific research potential. Perrin completed his research as part of his St. Mary’s Project (SMP) on “Fermions in Find out more »