As an extension of his creative work, Professor of Music David Froom often is asked to sit as a judge in a variety of competitions. On Sunday, April 7, he joined a panel at Howard University to adjudicate a competition for music-related graphic design at Howard's College of Engineering and Architecture. And on April 27, he will be the judge for the Music Teachers Association of Charles County "Sonatina and Sonata Festival," a piano competition for pre-college-age students.

In a conference usually reserved for graduate students, St. Mary’s College students Justyce Bennett ’19 (anthropology and art history), Lindsay Wooleyhand ’19 (anthropology and English), and Emma Hugonnet ’19 (anthropology and educational studies) presented their St.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Democracy will hold its annual legislative debrief session on Monday, April 15 at 5:30 p.m. in Glendening Annex on the College’s campus.  The event is free of charge and open to the public.

Professor of English Jennifer Cognard-Black has been selected as a finalist for Baylor University’s 2020 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award – with the single largest monetary reward of $250,000 – presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland anthropology department presents Ellen Contini-Morava as the spring’s Distinguished Scholar on Wednesday, April 3, 4:45 p.m. in Cole Cinema, Campus Center. The lecture is free of charge and open to the public.

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland (D-Md.) will speak at St. Mary's College of Maryland on Monday, April 8 at noon in Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary's Hall, 47458 Trinity Church Road. The event is free of charge and open to the public. This is a joint presentation by The Patuxent Partnership and the College's Center for the Study of Democracy. 

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s José Cacayo Ballesteros, Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Arts and professor of international languages and cultures, will present “Mother Tongue: A Poetry Reading by José Cacayo Ballesteros” on Friday, April 12, 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. in Anne Arundel Hall’s Blackistone Room. The reading is free of charge and open to the public. This reading may contain mature content.

Professor of Anthropology Julia King’s National Endowment for the Humanities-funded work with the Rappahannock Tribe is featured in the latest issue of National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Magazine.