Professor of Biology Karen Crawford’s milestone study on achieving the first gene knockout in a cephalopod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered." Crawford, who was the Whitman Scientist this summer on a team at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is first author of the study reported in the July 30 issu
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford, who was the Whitman Scientist this summer on a team at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is first author of a milestone study reported in the July 30 issue of Current Biology.
Ophir Agassi, visiting assistant professor of art, will be teaching painting and drawing courses at SMCM during the 2020-21 academic year in the Department of Art & Art History.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Institutional Advancement office has won the top Grand Award in the 32nd Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for the BeCounted on Giving Tuesday Fundraising Campaign. The office received the Grand Award in the Campaigns, Programs & Plans category of the competition.
Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland Gili Freedman and colleague Jennifer Beer (University of Texas at Austin) recently received a collaborative, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a total of $465,222 ($75,102 of which will go to SMCM).
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Assistant Professor of Chemistry Daniel Chase was recently awarded a three-year, $70,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, was recently acknowledged in the 2021 edition of the “Fiske Guide to Colleges.”
St. Mary's College Professor of Music David Froom's "Shades of Red" for solo viola has just been released as part of the American Composer Alliance's "The Shelter Recordings," an initiative created to support musicians sheltering in place while awaiting the return of live performing. Froom's music was selected and recorded by Rita Porfiris, professor of viola at the Hartt School of Music. The recording (a video) and a description of Porfiris is available here:
St. Mary’s College of Maryland President Tuajuanda C. Jordan has been appointed board chair to the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) board of directors.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland announced Wednesday, July 15, that fall 2020 varsity athletics and club sports competition will be suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendation was made by President Tuajuanda C. Jordan and approved by the Board of Trustees during a special Board meeting held today.
