The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations Project will kick off this weekend, October 27-29, at The College of New Jersey, where the CUR-recruited consultants and departmental teams will begin their sustained work together for the next four years. Attending the meeting on behalf of St. Mary’s College is administrative co-lead of the project, Christine Find out more »
Katharina von Kellenbach to lead study of guilt as a culturally productive force
Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies and her colleague Matthias Buschmeier (German literature, University of Bielefeld) were awarded a prestigious grant for over €500,000 (about $600,000) by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld for the 2018-2019 academic year. She and Dr. Buschmeier will lead 15 scholars from different continents Find out more »
Visiting Researcher Modeling Marine Ecosystems of Southern Iran
St. Mary’s College welcomes visiting researcher Maryam Hakim Elahi, who is spending two months on campus this summer working with St. Mary’s College’s Kristy Lewis, assistant professor of biology, to expand her knowledge of ecosystem modeling. Elahi is a PhD candidate in marine ecology at Khorramshahr Marine Science and Technology University (KMSU) in South Iran, adjacent Find out more »
Gijanto Receives Competitive Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Liza Gijanto was awarded a highly-competitive Howard Foundation Fellowship in April 2017 for her project titled: Emancipation and Commerce: The Gambia Colony and American Plantations in the Age of British Abolition. The $33,000 fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year will support Dr. Gijanto’s research which examines the nature of the impact 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 »
Assistant Professor Liza Gijanto Awarded Funding from Preservation Maryland
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor of Anthropology Liza Gijanto has received funding for her project, “Cremona Collections Curation and National Register Preparation,” from the Heritage Fund, a joint program sponsored by Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust.
St. Mary’s College Receives NIH Grant to Support Research Infrastructure
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the state’s public honors college, was one of only six institutions awarded a grant in the 2014-15 award cycle from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $435,620 award will be distributed over a five-year period and Find out more »
Female Birds Aren’t So Dull After All
In the bird world, flashy colors and boisterous songs are generally reserved for males. Females tend to be comparatively dull-colored and often stay quietly hidden in the background. Charles Darwin himself noted this difference between the sexes and proposed that it was mainly caused by past evolutionary changes in males, in a process he called Find out more »
Cove Point Scholarship Will Fund Research by SMCM Science Students
Selected projects by science students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland will be funded by a series of charitable donations from the new Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust Ruth Mathes Scholarship Program. A letter of agreement was signed by Michael Rudy, Board of Directors president of the Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, and St. Mary’s Find out more »
Special Olympics Benefits both Athletes and Parents
Participating in the Special Olympics benefits both the athletes and their parents, according to a study by Laraine Glidden, distinguished professor of psychology and human development at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and three associates. The research was published in the February 2011 issue of the journal Intellectual and Development Disabilities. Glidden; Katharine Bamberger ’10, Find out more »