Assistant Professor Geoff Bowers, Professor Pam Mertz, and Associate Professor Kelly Neiles from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry facilitated a 60 minute workshop on November 6 at the AACU 2020 Virtual Conference on Transforming STEM Education, “This Changes Everything.” The title of the workshop was “Build the Framework to Streamline Assessment:  Scaffold Skills and Assess with Signature Assignments” and focused on the work the department has done to create a meaningful assessment plan as part of the CUR Transformations Project (NSF-DUE 1625354).  Workshop participant

The Association of College and University Housing Officers – International (ACUHO-I) has recently recognized two members of the St.

The Center for the Study of Democracy and the Department of Political Science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland present a virtual roundtable and discussion of Professor of Political Science Sahar Shafqat’s co-edited book, “Pakistan’s Political Parties: Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy” (Georgetown University Press) on Wednesday, Nov.

Jeff Eden, assistant professor of history, has been interviewed on "Morning Wave in Busan" with host Katherine Bang on Be-FM radio in South Korea. The interview segment--which can be heard at the link below--concerns the ongoing crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region of the South Caucasus that has seen intense fighting over the last month.

Ellen Kohl, assistant professor of environmental studies and affiliate faculty of WGSX, published an article, "'Some we’s weren’t part of we': intersectional politics of belonging in U.S. environmental justice activism," in the journal Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

Associate Professors of Computer Science Alan Jamieson and Lindsay Jamieson received the Best Faculty Poster Award at the 2020 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Region Conference held virtually October 23-24. Their poster "Computational Thinking for Computer Science Majors: An Introduction to CS Education Career Pathways" focused on a pilot course to introduce computer science education pathways for computer science majors and had the students in the course implementing lesson plans at the Chesapeake Public Charter School.