The Office of Public Safety is pleased to announce that Public Safety Officer Katie Ringdahl has been selected as our Officer of the Year for 2024.

Officer Ringdahl started her career with the Office of Public Safety in 2021. Officer Ringdahl possesses a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland Global Campus and an Associate of Arts in Social Sciences from the College of Southern Maryland. Officer Ringdahl is a Certified Instructor for RAD Self Defense and ALERRT Civilian Response to an Active Shooter.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) Associate Professor Argelia González Hurtado has co-edited "Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film" with colleague Maria Soledad Paz-Mackay (St. Francis Xavier University).

Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was a co-author on 4 posters presented at Discover BMB in San Antonio.  She presented with two faculty from other institutions on “Lessons Learned from the First Implementation of Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs in Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry Lab Courses.” Two other posters were on assessment of biomolecular visualization, “Validation of Biomolecular Visualization Assessments through Large Scale Field Testing and Student Focus Groups” and “A Tale of Two Perspectives: Comparing Student and Faculty Perceptions of Biomolecular Visualization Ass

St. Mary's College of Maryland senior computer science majors Alex Stoyanov-Roberts and Shameer Rao took first place in the VelocityX: AI Hackathon hosted by the College of Southern Maryland and sponsored by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division on March 21-22. 

Senior psychology major Katya Scott '24 and Professor of Psychology Libby Williams were recently published in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy. The article is based on Scott's summer 2022 SURF project: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies on Art Therapy with Adult Refugees. Katya's St. Mary's Project, a mixed methods pilot study of art therapy with adult Ukrainian refugees, is an outgrowth of her SURF project.