The Southern Maryland Folklife Center will present the first annual Southern Maryland Folklife Summer Workshops at St. Mary’s College of Maryland this June 23-25, 2021.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland presents the Mulberry Music Festival: The Blues, featuring the Josh Riley Band, the Kelly Bell Band, and headlined by The Nighthawks, on Friday, June 18, beginning at 6 p.m. on the College’s Townhouse Green. The event is free of charge and open to the public. It will also be simultaneously livestreamed on the College’s website at www.smcm.edu/mulberry.

Patricia Santos-Ciminera, visiting assistant professor of biology, has recently presented at the Helminthological Society of Washington on “Parasite abundance and diversity in river otters (Lontra canadensis) within tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.” The research was executed along with two SMCM students, Oumoul Ba and Joseph Ponticos.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Office of Institutional Advancement, led by Vice President Carolyn Curry, has won two Gold awards in the 36th Annual Educational Advertising Awards, with one award for the Dedication of the Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland also selected as a Best of Show.