Professor of Biochemistry Pam Mertz served as the lead organizer of the 2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) summer education meeting, Transforming Undergraduate Education in the Molecular Life Sciences, held at Suffolk University in Boston, July 27-30.  She worked with co-organizers Odutayo Odunuga, Stephen F.

Visiting Librarians Karin “Traci” Haynie, DNP, MSLS, MS, and Emily A. Warren, MLIS, presented "Creating an Academic Librarian Residency: The Visiting Librarian’s Adventure" at the 8th annual Towson Conference for Academic Libraries, based on their experiences as Visiting Teaching & Learning Librarians at the Hilda C. Landers Library.

Two St. Mary’s College of Maryland students have been named to the 2023-2024 class of Rachel Carson Campus Fellows (RCC), a highly competitive national program whose mission is to “build and deepen critical connections between campuses, communities and advocates with the goal of advancing environmental health and equitable policy.” Lily Riesett ’24 and Nathan Villiger ’24 are among the 29 students in the 2023-2024 class of RCC fellows.

Professor of Psychology Aileen Bailey and alumni (Allison Barrett ‘18, Lane Havens ‘19, Erica Leyder ‘18, Taylor Merchant ‘19, Hannah Starnes ‘17) recently published an article entitled “Changes in social, sexual, and hedonic behaviors in rats in response to stress and restoration by a negative allosteric modulator of a5-subunit containing GABA receptor” in the journal Behavioural Brain Research.