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Alums’ Pet Collar wins $100K

Jared Marmen ’00 and Courtney Young Marmen ’02 launched Chord in 2014, a pet collar with phone app for dog and cat owners to use for force-free positive rewards-based training (http://chordcollar.com) The idea was pitched successfully in the “Shark Tank Susquehanna” for Harford and Cecil Counties, Md., received TEDCO prototype funding, won the rural innovation Find out more »

Professors Coleman and Ballesteros Involved In Publication Inspired by Prince

Jeffrey Coleman, associate professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, edited a special issue of The Delaware Poetry Review, “‘This Thing Called Life’: Poetry Inspired by the Music and Spirit of Prince.” The issue was released Friday, April 21, one year after the artist’s death. There are 32 contributors including Cacayo (pseudonym of Find out more »

Professor Katharina von Kellenbach Published

Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, recently published a chapter in the book “Lived Religion and the Politics of (In)Tolerance” (Springer, 2017). The book explores ten case studies that address shortcomings in the relationship between religion and (in)tolerance and offers an understanding of micro-politics of (in)tolerance and the Find out more »

Nicole DeAngeli ’14 selected for Science Foundation Fellowship

Nicole DeAngeli ’14, a PhD candidate currently at Dartmouth’s School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, was announced as a recipient of 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The program recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. Find out more »

Walter Hill Published in Computer Magazine

Professor of Political Science Walter Hill, along with Nicholas A. Valentino and John Leslie King from the University of Michigan, will be published in the May edition of Computer magazine. The article, “Polling and Prediction in the 2016 Presidential Election,” analyzes what went right and wrong in experts’ failure to predict the outcome of the Find out more »

Tredway Appointed Social Media Editor for Academic Journal

Kristi Tredway, visiting assistant professor of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at St. Mary’s College, has recently been appointed Social Media Editor for the academic journal, “Fashion, Style & Popular Culture.” As the Social Media Editor, Tredway will expand the media footprint of the journal and of the academic study of fashion more broadly.  In Find out more »

Hicks Receives Star Review for Latest Published Work

Professor of Sociology Louis Hicks was the lead editor of “The Civilian Lives of U.S. Veterans: Issues and Identities” which earned a star review in  the March, 2017 edition of  Library Journal. “The Civilian Lives of U.S. Veterans: Issues and Identities” looks at life after the military, considering the dual conundrum of a population benefiting Find out more »

Bailey and Research Student Receive Grant for Project

Aileen Bailey, professor of psychology and Aldom-Plansoen Honors College Professor, and Zoey Forrester-Fronstin’17 were selected as recipients of a Psi Chi 2016-2017 Spring Undergraduate Research Grant for Forrester-Fronstin’s project, “The influence of Orexin Antagonist, SB-334867, on Cognition.” Bailey described the project as an extension of research previously done in her lab and published as “Orexin receptor activity in Find out more »

Bowers and research student selected for national lab programs

Geoffrey Bowers, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently one of four faculty selected for the competitive Visiting Faculty Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) this summer. The program is operated by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with the DOE laboratories. Find out more »