Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was one of the organizers and moderators for a conference hosted by ASBMB Student Chapters, “Constructing Narratives for Teaching Science,” held virtually on February 6.   This conference featured a keynote speaker, Jay Hosler, a cartoonist and biologist at Juniata College who presented “There’s Science in my Story: Constructing Narratives for Teaching Science,” as well as presentations from submitted abstracts and networking sessions on specific topics.  This was the first virtual ASBMB Catalyst Conversation, showcasing talks on teach

Today, the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s College of Maryland announced for the second consecutive year a freeze in tuition and fees for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Board also approved a new marine science major.

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Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Howansky and collaborators recently published "Identity safety cues predict instructor impressions, belonging, and absences in the psychology classroom" in the journal Teaching of Psychology. This work aimed to explore some of the possible benefits of identity safety cues - signals to let students' know diverse identities are valued in their classroom - in the higher-ed classroom.

Donald Stabile, professor of economics and professor of the college at St.

Indrajit Chaudhury, visiting assistant professor of biology, has recently been published in FEBS Letters titled, “Fanconi anemia and mTOR pathways functionally interact during stalled replication fork recovery.”

Sarah Malena, assistant professor of history, has been published in the volume Scribes and Scribalism (T&T Clark, 2020). Malena’s contribution, “Influential Inscriptions: Resituating Scribal Activity During the Iron I-IIA Transition,” examines the significance of inscriptions in a time of extremely limited literacy and great social and political turmoil in the ancient Levant.

Distinguished Professor Emerita Laraine Masters Glidden served as editor-in-chief of the new APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Washington, D.C.: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities).

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Democracy and The Patuxent Partnership, present two guest lecturers virtually in February.