The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts selected St. Mary’s College of Maryland student Andrew Tarquinio ’16 for its prestigious, nationally recognized internship program. This summer, Tarquinio is interning with the Washington National Opera (WNO) team in the Kennedy Center’s Development Department. As the WNO development intern, Tarquinio’s responsibilities include research, cultivation, solicitation, Find out more »
The St. Mary’s Project: An Interdisciplinary Appreciation of Research
By Holly Gonzalez ’15 Many St. Mary’s College students mark the culmination of their education with the completion of a St. Mary’s Project (SMP), an independent research or creative expression project sponsored by a faculty mentor. The SMP allows for in depth study that matches students’ educational goals, and can build off internship, study abroad, Find out more »
Google CS Engagement Award Helps Expand Emerging Scholars Program
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 »