Stewart Lectures on Origins of Constitution Day
On Thursday, September 17, the Center for the Study of Democracy sponsored a lecture on Constitution Day. Constitution Day, which commemorates the anniversary of the creation of the Constitution of...
View ArticleToy Story: The Historical Playset in Post-War America
For Jeffrey Hammond, collecting toys from his childhood became an expensive way to procrastinate. Hammond’s Oct. 2 lecture on the 1950’s American “boy’s toy” playset was held in Cole Cinema and...
View ArticleAdovasio Argues Against Popular “Man as Hunter” Theory
In Cole Cinema on Thursday, Oct. 22, Professor James Adovasio presented his lecture, “Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective,” during which he dispelled many of the...
View ArticleKolbert Talks Climate Change
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, reporter Elizabeth Kolbert lectured on the history and future of climate change as revealed by Arctic ice. The lecture was based on her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, in...
View ArticleJudge Discusses ‘Scopes II’ Trial, Intelligent Design, and the Constitution
On Monday, Nov. 2, U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III visited the College, speaking on the topic of “Our Constitution’s Intelligent Design.” The speech was co-sponsored by the Center for the...
View ArticleGansler Talks Defense Acquisition in the Obama White House
On Thursday, Jan. 28, the Honorable Jacques S. Gansler delivered a talk at St. Mary’s Hall entitled “Issues in Defense Acquisition for the Obama Administration.” Dr. Gansler served as Undersecretary...
View ArticleGitelman Breaks Eastern European Taboos on Holocaust
On a dreary Feb. 3 evening, students, professors, and local residents gathered in the Blackistone Room of Anne Arundel Hall to hear University of Michigan’s Professor of Political Science Zvi Gitelman....
View ArticleJohn Prendergast: Students Can Help Darfur
John Prendergast, Former Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council and co-founder of the Enough Project, gave his second of three public lectures as the Senior Nitze Fellow on...
View ArticleProfessor Discusses Neuromuscular Disease Research
Baylor College of Medicine professor Thomas Cooper expressed his research lab’s interest in neuromuscular disease in the fifth lecture of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series this...
View ArticleCollege Professor Discusses Nature’s Sexiest Traits
On Wednesday, March 24, biology professor Jordan Price presented an explanation of the sexual selection of expressed traits. The lecture, which took place in Schaefer Hall, was part of the Natural...
View ArticleProfessor Leah Eller Wages War on Hazardous Waste
In her lecture Waging Chemical Warfare on Hazardous Waste: Green Chemistry at St. Mary’s College of Maryland on Apr. 7, Chemistry professor Leah Eller discussed the dangers of radioactive waste and...
View ArticleRiedel Talks Foreign Policy
Last Thursday, April 1 at 6:00 p.m., St. Mary’s students and staff gathered in St. Mary’s Hall to listen to a lecture given by Bruce Riedel, an expert on political transition and counter terrorism and...
View ArticleBiology Student Published in Journal of Applied Toxicology
“Differential Ablation of Sensory Receptors Underlies Oxytocin-Induced Shifts in Auditory Thresholds of the Goldfish (Carassius auratus).” This is the title of senior Gordon Michael Selckmann’s recent...
View ArticleIgnatius Talks Politics, Journalism at Bradlee Lecture
David Ignatius may be best known for writing the spy thriller-turned-film “Body of Lies,” but instead of shallow Hollywood glitz attendants at this year’s Ben Bradlee lecture got an in-depth glimpse of...
View ArticleKripal Explores the Connection Between Religion, Myticism, Superhero Culture
On Monday, Sept. 26 author Jeff Kripal spoke about his book on the link between the mystic and the mutant to an almost full Auerbach Auditorium in St. Mary’s Hall. The lecture was provided by the...
View ArticleKitchen Presents Underground Comics, Discusses Free Speech in Graphic Novels
On Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Hall, Denis Kitchen spoke about underground comics of the 1960s and 70s. Kitchen is not only a cartoonist, but also a publisher of comics and the founder of the Comic...
View ArticleRakoff Gives Honest, Candid Twain Lecture
David Rakoff is very anxious. As a defensive pessimist, he’s always expecting and preparing for the worst. For example, as he joked in the writer’s craft talk he gave Friday, April 27 as part of the...
View ArticleDr. Petersson Discusses Protein Folding at NS&M
Dr. E. James Petersson, an organic and biological chemist from the University of Pennsylvania has been doing research on protein folding to discover how it moves and what shapes it takes in relation to...
View ArticleDr. Perline Shows Students the Light at NSM Lecture
On September 19, Dr. Ron Perline, a professor of calculus and differential geometry at Drexel University, presented his topic, “Non-Euclidean Flashlights: A Tale of Two Blackboards”, for the Natural...
View ArticleThe Neurobiology of Aggression and Violence at First Psychology Lecture
On Friday, Sep. 28, students and staff attended the first lecture of the year for the psychology department, titled “Neurobiology of Aggression and Violence, the Importance of Heterogeneity to...
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