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St. Mary’s College Professor J. Jordan Price published in Royal Society Journal “Proceedings B”

J. Jordan Price, professor of biology and Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and co-author Simon C. Griffith from Macquarie University, Sydney, had a paper titled, “Open Cup Nests Evolved from Roofed Nests in the Early Passerines,” published on Feb 1 in the Royal Society Journal “Proceedings B.” Find out more »

David Froom’s composition “Nightsongs” premiers in March

Professor of Music David Froom’s “Circling,” one of his most frequently performed compositions, was performed at the International Saxophone Symposium in Fairfax, VA, on Jan. 6. The performers were the Perrine/Utley Duo, who are heads of the saxophone departments at Cleveland State University and Vanderbilt University. The premiere of his composition, “Nightsongs,” for clarinet and Find out more »

St. Mary’s College Professor Named Chair of Local Board

St Mary’s College Professor of Biology Robert W. Paul officially took office on January 1 as board chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. Paul served as chairman-elect for 2015-16, and now will assume a two-year term as chairman. The Alliance is one of the oldest and well-respected non-profits Find out more »

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Professor Wins MIPS Award for Research Innovation

Troy Townsend, assistant professor of chemistry at St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM), was awarded a $100,000 technology product development grant through the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program. Townsend will be working closely with Solar Tech Inc., a Maryland-based startup company, to develop a proof-of-concept process to print low-cost and lightweight solar modules from the bottom Find out more »

Professor Geoffrey Bowers Published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Geoffrey Bowers recently had an article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C titled “Role of Cations in CO2 Adsorption, Dynamics, and Hydration in Smectite Clays under in Situ Supercritical CO2 Conditions.” It is the first paper from a new collaboration involving scientists at Find out more »

Cognard-Black to Offer Writing Workshop in Iowa this Spring

Jennifer Cognard-Black, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, will offer a three-day writing workshop titled “Edible Essays: Adventures in Food Writing,” March 10-12, for The Iowa Writers’ House, Iowa City, IA.   In her workshop, Cognard-Black will ask participants to consider the recipe as a form of familial storytelling and meaning-making all its Find out more »

Glidden to participate in upcoming webinar from the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Laraine Glidden, distinguished professor of psychology emerita at St. Mary’s College, will be one of three participants in a webinar from the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities on the public health approach to the issue of maltreatment of children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan. In the one-hour webinar Find out more »

St. Mary’s College Professor Collaborates on Research of Dryland Mosses

Kirsten Deane-Coe, assistant professor of biology for St. Mary’s College of Maryland, was awarded $130,079 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Dimensions of Biodiversity Program. She will be working with collaborators to investigate the drivers of diversity in an ecologically important clade of dryland mosses. Syntrichia is a large and diverse genus of mosses occurring worldwide Find out more »

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Liza Gijanto Published

Liza Gijanto, assistant professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s College, had her book published, titled “The Life of Trade Events and Happenings in the Niumi’s Atlantic Center” (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016). The Life of Trade utilizes archaeological and historical sources to address the dynamic nature of the Atlantic trade on the Gambia River. Find out more »