Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 17th Annual Southern Maryland Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Celebration, with the theme What Matters to You, on Monday, Jan. 18, via Zoom. The program will begin at 8 a.m., featuring a keynote address by Crystal Marie Fleming, author and expert on global racism and white supremacy. Following the program, from 10 a.m.

Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado, assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, has recently published the peer-reviewed article “Narrating the indigenous diaspora through Yolanda Cruz's lens” in Vistas al Patio, a journal in the area of Humanities from The University of Cartagena, Colombia.

A research photograph taken by Professor of Biology Karen Crawford has been selected by Nature as one of the top 10 scientific images of 2020. 

On Nov. 12, the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at St. Mary’s College of Maryland held its annual book awards virtually this year, presenting book prizes to five county high school seniors in recognition of their outstanding academic record.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Musician in Residence Brian Ganz resumes his popular PianoTalk series, now in a virtual format. In his PianoTalks, Brian takes music-lovers behind the scenes with great works of music and then performs them.

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Emek Köse, associate professor of mathematics, has been elected chair of the Applied Mathematics Education Committee of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, one of the largest and most influential organizations for applied mathematics in the world. 

Gail Savage, professor emeritus of history, recently had a scholarly essay published in Genealogy as part of the special issue: Transnational Families: Europe and the World.