For the fourth consecutive year, LendEDU has completed an annual Student Loan Debt by School by State Report, a comprehensive analysis of student loan debt statistics for over 1,000 colleges and universities throughout the United States (

Assistant Professor of Psychology Trevor L.

Leo Boucher ’22 (West River, Md.) successfully defended his 2018 title as Middle-Atlantic Men's Singlehanded Champion by winning the Carl Van Duyne Trophy, Sept. 21-22 at the United States Naval Academy.  Boucher bested the 18-boat field over fourteen races held mostly in moderate sea breeze conditions.  The victory qualifies the 2018-2019 St.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Biology Department presents Jeremy Testa to discuss “The Long Road of Chesapeake Bay Restoration: Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery” as part of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquia series. The talk takes place on Oct. 30 at 4:45 p.m. in Schaefer Hall 106.

The African and African Diaspora Studies program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland will host its second annual fall symposium, “From Invisibility to Remembrance: Commemorating Slavery at St. Mary’s and Beyond,” on Wednesday, Oct. 2 beginning at 8 p.m. in Cole Cinema, Campus Center, and on Thursday, Oct. 3, beginning at 6 p.m.

Using drone technology, Luke Quinn ‘20 spent his summer researching a way to more efficiently survey archaeology sites for magnetic anomalies.

Through an internship with the University of Maryland Unmanned Aerial Systems Test Site (UMD UAS), Quinn, a St. Mary’s College of Maryland physics major with a concentration in applied physics, researched the feasibility of attaching a magnetometer to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), commonly referred to as a drone, to survey archaeology sites.

St. Mary’s College’s physics department is featured in an article published by Physics Today. Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics, is the most influential and closely followed physics magazine in the world.

David Froom's "Variations on an Early American Hymn Tune" for solo piano and "Warm are the still and lucky miles" for chorus have just been published by American Composers Edition. The former of these was premiered by Eliza Garth on August 30 at the Piano Festival on the River, the annual celebration of pianists and piano music held each year on the St. Mary's College of Maryland campus. 

On Wednesday, Sept. 11, David Hautanen, vice president for enrollment management at St. Mary’s College, presented at the Maryland Higher Education Roundtable meeting hosted by the College Board at the College Park Marriott and Conference Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. Hautanen presented and facilitated a discussion on the future of enrollment management leadership.

Kristina Howansky, assistant professor of psychology at St. Mary’s College, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology during the 40th anniversary of its annual Conference on Teaching, which took place in Denver, Colorado.