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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Cassie Gurbisz Leads SMCM's Participation in $3.5 Million NSF Grant Collaborative

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By Chuck Steenburgh
St. Mary’s College of Maryland is part of a collaboration of six institutions that was recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, led by Penn State, focuses on how aquatic plants and animals, such as clams, salt marshes and seagrasses, affect carbon cycling in the Chesapeake Bay.
April 28, 2023

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Joins JED Campus to Support Student Mental Health

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By Chuck Steenburgh
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has joined JED Campus in support of student well-being and mental health. The program is a nationwide initiative of The Jed Foundation (JED) designed to help schools evaluate and strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems to ensure that schools have the strongest possible mental health safety nets.
April 28, 2023

Professor of History Betül Başaran awarded a Virtual Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library

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By Betul Basaran

Professor of History Betül Başaran received a short-term Virtual Scholarly Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the academic year 2023-24, in support of ​her project, “Cross-Cultural Intimacy and Mixed Marriages in the Ottoman Empire.”

April 25, 2023

Assistant Professor Freedman Interviewed by New York Times and and Published with an Alum in Journal

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By Angela Draheim

Assistant Professor of Psychology Gili Freedman and colleagues (including Mason Drusano ’22) recently published an article entitled, '“Dear future woman of STEM”: Letters of advice from women in STEM’ in the International Journal of STEM Education.

April 21, 2023

Assistant Professor Soo Bin Jang Published on Asian American Identity-Based Mentoring

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By Soo Bin Jang

Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Soo Bin Jang, PhD and her colleagues recently published an article entitled "Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars' reading group on AsianCrit" in The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Through a collaborative process of reading, discussing, and writing together, Jang and her Korean immigrant early-career scholars made sense of the racialized epistemology imposed on Asian internationals, As

April 19, 2023

Professor Mertz Interviewed about ASBMB’s Summer Education Meeting and NSF Grant

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By Pamela Mertz

Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, was interviewed for an article that recently appeared in ASBMB Today on the ASBMB summer education meeting that will be held at Suffolk University in Boston this July, “Transforming undergraduate education in the molecular life sciences.”   Professor Mertz is the primary organizer of this conference with three co-organizers Professor Odutayo Odunuga of Stephen F. Austin State University, Associate Professor Celeste Peterson of Suffolk University, and Professor Joseph Provost of the University of California, San Diego.

April 13, 2023