Dear Parents & Families,
Spring has sprung! This newsletter presents an opportunity for you to discuss, possibly in person, some upcoming opportunities for your Seahawk. We’ll detail some important upcoming deadlines as well as opportunities for summer or next year.
Commencement
Sue Johnson, professor of art, will exhibit large-scale screen-prints in Mesh, a national juried exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. The exhibition will be on view from March 16 - April 28, with an opening reception on Friday, March 15, 6-8 p.m. Johnson's works are from Subliminality, a series of 7-foot-tall prints on recycled wallpapers that she created during a residency fellowship at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium.
Kailah Callaham ’27 could have brushed it off as a transient thought that night in 2023 when she watched the cast of performers at Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime show and thought, “I could do that.'' But then she wouldn’t have been on the field dancing in the 2024 Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show while more than 1
Alumni April Fraser '23 and Sonder Van Wert '23 and Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Howansky presented research at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference held in in San Diego, California in mid-February.
Professor of History Betül Başaran attended a conference in Paris on the perceptions of the World War I era in the Middle East, where she gave a talk entitled "Niloufer Hanım Sultan: An Exiled Ottoman Princess in Hyderabad, India and Muslim Women's Leadership Roles after WW1."
By sharing both passages from books and pieces of life experiences, five members of St. Mary’s College of Maryland faculty and staff inspired students at Great Mills High School during the African American Read-In on Friday, Feb. 9.
Volunteer readers from the St. Mary’s County community visited classes and read from Black authors' literature that holds special importance to them. Volunteers throughout the day also spoke with students about their respective journeys in life, education and career.
Julia King, professor of anthropology, was named to the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts in recognition of her numerous accomplishments as a full-time professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. King’s term took effect at the start of the spring 2024 semester and runs through May 31, 2026.
Established in 1997, the Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts recognizes “a distinguished scholar with broad expertise … an eminent scholar and gifted teacher who provides academic leadership.”
