St. Mary’s College Professor of Spanish José R. Ballesteros has been named director of equity programming in the recently reimagined Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity now to be known as the Division of Inclusive Diversity, Equity, Access and Accountability (IDE(A)₂.

St. Mary’s College Professor of Music Jeffrey Silberschlag has been invited to present a recital and master class during the international trumpet conference, The Brazilian Association of Trumpeters (ABT), November 3-8, in Brazil. The conference’s theme is “Integrating Knowledge with the Spirit of Cooperation and Solidarity.”

Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was elected to a three-year term as chair of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Student Chapters Steering Committee; a subcommittee of the ASBMB Educational and Professional Development Committee.  ASBMB Student Chapters is a national community of undergraduate students and faculty members promoting the advancement of biochemistry and molecular biology research, education, and science outreach.

The Physics Teacher, an academic journal on teaching, has published an article by Rose Young ’20, titled "Parenting and Physics: How to Support Physics Students Who Are Raising Children." The article, based on Young’s St. Mary’s Project (SMP) research, was featured as part of the journal’s special collection on "Sex, Gender, and Physics Teaching." Her study addresses the obstacles and lack of support available in the U.S. for physics students who are also parents.

While the ongoing pandemic has closed concert halls throughout the world, performers and presenting organizations are finding creative ways to stay active. The California Music Center, home to the Klein International String Competition, is creating and posting "Klein@Home Hour" online programs that celebrate their competition laureates. Debuting this coming Sunday, Oct. 4, 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT), is "New Works," which features their laureates performing music written by living composers for the competition.

Jeff Eden, assistant professor of history, has been featured and interviewed in an article on G1 (Globo), Latin America's largest news service. The article features Eden's commentary on the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region in the South Caucasus where violence has flared this week. This region, which is claimed by Azerbaijan but governed by an Armenian-backed independent republic, is currently seeing its worst outbreak of fighting since 2016. With roots in the late Soviet period, the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis is often called "Europe's longest-running conflict."

Sue Johnson, professor of art, exhibits her work in a solo exhibition titled, “Hall of Portraits from The History of Machines,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, August 14, 2020 to February 7, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Biology Emily Brownlee was recently awarded a $21,840 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled: “Collaborative Research FSML: PhytoChop: An estuarine phytoplankton observatory.” The two-year award began August 1, and will help fund Brownlee’s collaborative research with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES- Horn Point Laboratory