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

For the third year in a row, St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been listed as a Hidden Gem by CollegeRaptor.com, a higher education planning tool that offers side-by-side comparisons of colleges. St. Mary’s College was selected for inclusion in the Hidden Gems in the Mideast listing.

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Professor of Anthropology Julia King was recently awarded a $110,000 grant from the National Park Service to fund a complete archeological overview and assessment of Piscataway Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland.