by Professor Mary Margaret Delaney, English Department First of all, when returning to teaching at a large urban college, like MC, expect many situations to arise, both positive and negative. One particular difficulty for me, this semester, has been that…
The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is delighted to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2022 cohort. Once again, competition was strong, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort. The group represents…
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC: The Hurdles Behind, the Urgency of Now, and Moving Forward after Covid “Do not get lost in a sea of despair, Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a…
Our Spring 2021 seminar series ended with a wonderful afternoon prepared by curators and educators from the National Museum of the American Indian. One of the challenges of the Pandemic has been to adapt museum exhibitions and resources to an…
One of the highlights of the Fellowship is the Opening Panel which kicks of our museum seminar series each year. With the continuing Covid-19 related restrictions we are continuing with remote presentations. While we would have liked to have been…
Every February, our outgoing Smithsonian Faculty Fellows share their work with the Montgomery College community. In spite of a global pandemic, the tradition continued. The 2020 Fellows faced a series of unprecedented challenges. Only one museum seminar happened in a…
By Teresa Peachey, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology Since I teach introductory meteorology, climate change is already part of the curriculum. However, I was thrilled to weave climate change connections throughout the course as part of the Smithsonian Fellowship.…
By Brandon Wallace, Professor, Education In 2019, I traveled to Ghana for the Year of Return—a charge and call for people throughout the African diaspora, within the United States, to visit Ghana, one of the largest, former enslavement trading ports in…
by Alejandra Morales Picard, Professor, Psychology As I designed the assignments that would be the focus of my fellowship project, I was determined to create pedagogical experiences that varied in format and allowed students to use/develop different types of…
By Bill Krayer, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Today was the first day of the two-week climate-change unit in both AOSC105 Intro to Meteorology and AOSC100 Weather and Climate. I introduced the Learning Lab website, and much…