Board of Trustees Holds the Line on Tuition Chuck Steenburgh May 13, 2024 - 1:16 pm
May 13, 2024
The St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees held tuition and mandatory fees flat for the fifth consecutive year at its May 10 meeting, while approving a modest increase in room & board rates for the 2024-25 school year.
“Despite the uncertainty in fall enrollments nationwide caused by the flawed rollout of the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the Department of...
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So. Md Education News
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Taking the LEAD Campaign Surpasses the $20 Million Mark Chuck Steenburgh May 13, 2024 - 8:11 am
May 13, 2024
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has surpassed its $20 million goal—a year ahead of schedule—through the Taking the LEAD comprehensive fundraising campaign. To maintain the campaign’s momentum and maximize the vision and initiatives of outgoing President Tuajuanda C. Jordan, the campaign will now transition to the “How High Can We Fly?” phase for the final year, concluding in June...
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Graduates 356 at 2024 Commencement Chuck Steenburgh May 11, 2024 - 1:50 pm
May 11, 2024
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, graduated 356 students with Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees on Saturday, May 11, outdoors on the campus’ Townhouse Green.
Maryland’s longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD 5th) delivered the keynote...
St. Mary’s College of Maryland President Tuajuanda C. Jordan to Retire in June 2025 Chuck Steenburgh May 09, 2024 - 1:28 pm
May 09, 2024
In an eventful Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, May 10, Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland since 2014, announced her intention to retire effective June 30, 2025.
“Ten years ago, I said ‘now is the time’—the time to become a model of what higher education can achieve, the time for us—the invisible—to become...
Champion Seahawks Take Flight at Early Grad Walk Gretchen Phillips May 09, 2024 - 11:02 am
May 09, 2024
St. Mary’s College of Maryland recognized 15 senior student-athletes in a special grad walk for the senior men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, who due to the spot they’ve earned in the NCAA Championship Tournament will miss the regularly scheduled 2024 Commencement exercises Saturday, May 11.
Men’s and women’s lacrosse student-athletes will be competing that day in the second and first...
Kingsland '25 Receives ASBMB Grant Chuck Steenburgh May 06, 2024 - 8:26 am
May 06, 2024
Tamani Kingsland '25, a biochemistry and biology double-major from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has received a $1,200 Undergraduate Research Grant from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Kingsland's grant will support her 2024 St. Mary's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) project this summer under the guidance of faculty mentor Professor Pamela Mertz.
"The in-vitro...
Edegran '16 Qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics Chuck Steenburgh April 29, 2024 - 8:47 am
April 29, 2024
Markus Edegran '16 qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the men's kite at the Last Chance Regatta in Hyères, France, April 20-27.
Edegran previously won the U.S. Olympic trials in the event, but the U.S. still had to qualify for an Olympic slot. Edegran earned his ticket to Paris 2024 by a 4th place finish at the Last Chance regatta.
In February, Leo Boucher '23 narrowly missed a...
Prof. King Receives National Humanities Center Fellowship Gretchen Phillips April 26, 2024 - 9:08 am
April 26, 2024
Julia King, professor of anthropology and the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts, was recently named a National Humanities Center Fellow for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship will allow her to focus on her project, Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia.
“This is an incredible...
Koontz '25 Wins Two Awards at Sigma Xi Virtual Conference Lorena Torres-… April 25, 2024 - 11:58 am
April 25, 2024
Sophia Koontz '25, a junior biology major, was awarded the best undergraduate oral research presentation and the best interdisciplinary research for environmental challenges in the 2024 Sigma Xi Student Research Showcase. Koontz presented the work she did at SMCM during her 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) under the supervision of Assistant Professor Lorena...
Murphy and Miranda Tapped for ASBMB National Honor Society Lee Capristo April 24, 2024 - 3:23 pm
April 24, 2024
Biochemistry majors Kyle Murphy ’23 and Gabriela Miranda ’24 were inducted into the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) national honor society while presenting their St. Mary’s Project research at the 2024 ASBMB Annual Meeting on March 23-26 in San Antonio, Texas. Previous inductees from St. Mary's College of Maryland are Ashleigh Bonanno ’21...
Leo Boucher ’23 places second at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Gretchen Phillips April 24, 2024 - 2:29 pm
April 24, 2024
Leo Boucher ’23 placed second at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for the Men’s Dinghy (ILCA 7) held in Miami, Florida in February.
In the days leading up to the regatta, Boucher — named All-American when sailing for St. Mary's College of Maryland — received a surprise visit from St. Mary’s College President Tuajuanda C. Jordan.
“It was great to have President Jordan come...
Motiram '23 Selected for Fulbright ETA Award Chuck Steenburgh April 23, 2024 - 11:10 am
April 23, 2024
Surisitee Motiram ’23 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Award for the 2024-2025 year from the U.S. Department of State. Motiram will spend a year in Colombia under the aegis of the program. They are the first SMCM student or alumnus to receive a U.S. Student Fulbright Award since 2016.
"I'm excited to immerse myself in a new culture and embrace every moment of...
Professor of Spanish José Ballesteros Honored by HUD Lee Capristo April 23, 2024 - 9:36 am
April 23, 2024
José Ballesteros, professor and chair of the Department of International Languages and Cultures, was the invited guest poet at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launch on April 11 of National Fair Housing Month. Ballesteros read two poems in Spanish from a set of five that he wrote, titled “Home Suites I-V” about his personal journey through the country and housing...
Officer Katie Ringdahl Selected as Public Safety Officer of the Year Chuck Steenburgh April 23, 2024 - 6:56 am
April 23, 2024
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...
JED Campus SMCM Update – Spring 2024 Chuck Steenburgh April 17, 2024 - 7:40 am
April 17, 2024
SMCM joined with the JED Foundation in 2022 to ensure we are promoting health and wellness on our campus. The JED Foundation is a nonprofit organization that partners with colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems. The SMCM JED Campus team worked with JED consultants during the 2022-23 academic year to create a JED strategic plan for...
Associate Professor Argelia González Hurtado Co-editor of New Book Lee Capristo April 14, 2024 - 3:23 pm
April 14, 2024
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). The book, published by Lexington Books, features 11 chapters and conversations with filmmakers who use landscape to...
SMCM Selected to Receive the IIE American Passport Project Grant Chuck Steenburgh April 12, 2024 - 1:29 pm
April 12, 2024
St. Mary's College of Maryland has been selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to receive an IIE American Passport Project grant that will enable up to 25 Pell-eligible first-year SMCM students to obtain their first U.S. passport and open the pathway to study abroad. In its fourth year, IIE awarded 51 institutions in the IIENetwork membership for...
SMCM Two SMCM Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Summer Language Study in Taiwan
Two SMCM Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Summer Language Study in Taiwan Chuck Steenburgh April 04, 2024 - 8:44 am
April 04, 2024
St. Mary's College of Maryland students Jonathan Geyer '24 and Summer LaRocco '26 were recipients of grants under the Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for Advanced Overseas Chinese Language Study for the summer of 2024. The fellowships are awarded by the American Councils for International Education under a grant from the U.S. Department of...
Professor Mertz Presents at Discover BMB and Serves on an Invited Panel Pamela Mertz April 02, 2024 - 3:14 pm
April 02, 2024
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...
Students Take First Place in Hackathon Lee Capristo March 28, 2024 - 5:36 pm
March 28, 2024
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.
The challenge for the hackathon was to produce an image classification model capable of identifying images of aircraft. This is a...