On Sept. 19 at 4:45 p.m. in Schaefer Hall room 106, St. Mary’s College of Maryland will welcome Anthony Hey, former vice president of Microsoft Research Connections for a lecture on the future of artificial intelligence and computing. This event, part of the Natural Science and Mathematics colloquium series, is free of charge and open to the public.

On Thursday, September 27 at 7 p.m., the Office of the President presents From Mozart to Monk, a piano concert featuring performances by Geo Cooper, Reginald Robinson, and Theodis Rodgers, Jr.

Two St. Mary’s College of Maryland alumni are continuing their education in Ireland this fall at  University College Dublin, one of Europe’s leading research intensive universities.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been named a Best College for 2018-19 by Money magazine. Money analyzed graduation rates, tuition charges, family borrowing, and alumni earnings (plus 22 other data points) to find the country’s top values. 

On September 15 and 16, the District New Music Coalition (https://www.districtnewmusiccoalition.com/) is sponsoring a weekend of events at Georgetown University, called New Music DC (https://www.districtnewmusiccoalition.com/new-music-dc/). They have invited David Froom, professor of music, onto their panel on the subject of music commissioning.

The personal papers of John Hanson Briscoe (1934-2014), former speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates and longtime St. Mary’s County lawyer and judge, will be preserved at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Archives.

For the third 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.

For the past thirteen years, Washington Monthly College Guide has ranked colleges “not based on what colleges do for themselves, but on what they do for their country.” In the rankings released today, St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked 28 among the top 30 Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States.

An academic paper coauthored by Joanne Goldwater, associate dean for retention and student success at St.