Registration takes place through June 24 for the 7^th Annual Chesapeake Writers’ Conference held on St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s campus, Sunday, June 24 – Saturday, June 30. Workshop tuition is $800. There is also a course credit option for an additional fee and optional meal and housing packages available. For more information, visit www.smcm.edu/events/chesapeake-writers-conference.

Adjunct Harp Instructor Rebecca Anstine Smith performed with organist Michael Lodico, Jr.

Alumna Carolyn La Rocco ’15 (history) recently received official notice from the Wolfson Foundation of her receipt o

The St. Mary’s College vocal ensemble PING, under the direction of Professor of Music Larry Vote, gave four performances as a part of the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy, May 22 -June 4. Here they are pictured following a performance in San Domenico Cathedral. Their performances were enthusiastically received by audiences in Alba and the town of Busca where they performed in concert with pianist Brian Ganz, St.

Associate Professor of History Adriana Brodsky and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Ruth Anne Phillips led 18 St. Mary’s College students in a two-week study tour of Peru.

Jessica Malisch, assistant professor of biology, recently had an article accepted by the journal “Physiological and Biochemical Zoology” and it is published online at: 

Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado, assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, co-organized a panel and presented a paper at the XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in Barcelona, Spain, on May 26, 2018.

President Tuajuanda C.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland recently announced that the College’s Institutional Advancement Integrated Marketing department was a silver winner in the 33^rd Annual Educational Advertising Awards sponsored by the Higher Ed Marketing Report.

Three students from "Crawford's Crew" attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting at the University of Virginia, May 30 - June 1. Andrew Marinich ’18 and Elayne Hryniewicz ’18 each presented posters summarizing their St. Mary's Project research, and Professor of Biology Karen Crawford gave an invited talk highlighting her squid embryogenesis studies from last summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Annie Lowry ’19, developmental biology student this past spring and rising SMP student with Crawford, also attended the meeting.