St. Mary's College alumnus Ethan Elliott, who was a physics major in the class of 2006, received a NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal on October 29, 2019, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  NASA awards the medal for “unusual and significant performance during the first 10 years of an individual’s early career. The contribution is significant in that, for an employee who is at such an early phase of career, their contribution has substantially improved the discipline area.” 

Professor of Biology Karen Crawford's presentation was selected as an oral presentation in a complementary session in the 2020 SICB Symposium "Building Bridges from Genome to Phenome: Molecules, Methods and Models," held January 3-7, in Austin Texas.

Following the successful celebration of Professor Thomas M. Barrett marking the opening of the St.

Sarah Latchney, assistant professor of neurobiology, has recently been published in Behavioural Brain Research titled, “Indices of dentate gyrus neurogenesis are unaffected immediately after or following withdrawal from morphine self-administration compared to saline self-administering control male rats.”

Assistant Professor of Physiology Jessica Malisch presented “Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? Predictors of Facultative Altitudinal Migration in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)” at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held January 3-7, in Austin,Texas.

Joanna Bartow, professor of Spanish, and Pamela Mann, associate research & instruction librarian for the arts & humanities, led a workshop titled “Community-Based Spanish and Critical Information Literacy” on October 18, 2019, at the AACU Conference of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community and Careers: Cro

Emily Rudo ’23, an environmental studies and public policy studies double major, educational studies minor from Howard County, Maryland, was one of four invited panelists at the biennial NOAA Chesapeake Bay Environmental Literacy Forum held on January 22, 2020, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Rudo offered a student perspective on meaningful watershed educational experiences (MWEEs).

Misty Frantz and Kate Shirey of the Career Development Center, and Janna Thompson, assistant professor of educational studies, have been selected for a poster presentation at this year’s AAC&U Diversity, Equity, & Student Success Conference.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Black Student Union announces MK Asante as the third Annual Elizabeth Barber Walker Lecture guest speaker. Asante’s lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall on the College’s campus. The event is free of charge and open to the public.

In January 2020, Assistant Professor of Psychology Ayse Ikizler was quoted in the "Monitor on Psychology" in an article on the AMENA-Psy (American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association) organization of which she is co-founder and president.