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April 10-11, 2024

Fourth Annual St. Mary’s Research Celebration: Research Showcase

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The University Research Council, the Office of Sponsored Projects, Academic Research and Compliance, and the Office of Student Research and Inquiry will host the 2024 Research Showcase on Wednesday, April 10, and Thursday, April 11.  

The Research Showcase celebrates the scholarly and creative achievements of our undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. The two-day event includes faculty and student presentations, workshops, and the Annual Research Symposium and Creative Activities Exhibition, and more.  

The alternative day of learning is Thursday, April 11. Faculty teaching undergraduate courses are encouraged to incorporate Research Showcase into their syllabi, whether that is presenting scholarly and creative works and/or encouraging your students to attend Showcase events.  

Attention: All presenters, please locate your name in the Detailed Schedule of Events for your assigned time and location .  If your name or presentation is highlighted in yellow , please contact us .  Additional information will be forthcoming via Canvas .  For questions or special requests, please contact Dr. Melissa Karlin at [email protected] and Irene Holguin at [email protected] .  

Exhibitor Event   

Research Showcase will host an Exhibitor Event on Wednesday, April 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Alumni Athletics & Convention Center, Auxillary Gym. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to participate as exhibitors for this event to connect and network with current and future St. Mary’s students while registrants sign in. This is a great opportunity to promote your student organization, department, office, grant, or student-focused resource. If you are interested in participating and having a table, click the button above to complete the registration form by Friday, March 15 .   

Alternative Day of Learning  

 Thursday, April 11, is an Alternative Day of Learning. Faculty teaching undergraduate courses are encouraged to incorporate Research Showcase into their syllabi, whether that is presenting scholarly and creative works and/or encouraging students to attend Showcase events.  

Student attendance will be tracked for the planned activities on April 11.  Each session will have a QR code for participants to check-in.  The attendance sheet will be provided to faculty the following week of Research Showcase.   

If you have questions, please contact Melissa Karlin, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Student Research and Inquiry, at [email protected] or Irene Holguin, Director of Sponsored Projects, Academic Research and Compliance, at [email protected] .

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Based on the popular EPrints software, The  Open Research Archive  is the University’s  institutional repository  for all research outputs of researchers working at St Mary’s. The Archive also serves as a repository for other St Mary's academic outputs, including PhD theses and Masters dissertations with Distinction.

Publications and documents that should be added to the  Open Research Archive  include:

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• Masters dissertations with Distinction grades

The  Open Research Archive  is designed to  provide full-text access to research outputs on open access  wherever permitted by publishers. The Archive also collates a record of all scholarly outputs from within the University where full-text access is not permitted.

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The  Open Research Archive  plays an important role in the externally mandated open access process for research publications. For more detailed information on the University’s  Research Publications and Open Access Policy  and REF2021 open access mandate for REF eligibility, please see  here . 

All research outputs are required to be deposited by St Mary's University researchers in the Open Research Archive immediately on acceptance of publication to ensure compliance with REF2021 open access policy and to enhance the visibility and accessibility to the research outputs created within the University.

• Go to the  Open Research Archive , select 'Deposit now', login in and follow the on-screen prompts. All submissions are checked before being published online.

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We are continually enhancing the functionality of the  Open Research Archive . We have embedded  Altmetrics statistics , where available, to all of the records. This provides some visualisation of the social dynamics of the deposits’ usage across social and other digital media. A good example of what this allows us to capture can be seen on a paper by Oliver Runswick (SHAS), with a concise breakdown of some impact data, which is further expanded within Altmetrics itself:

We have also integrated  ORCID  functionality, allowing us to harvest the data on your scholarly outputs from ORCID records in cases where you have provided your ORCID iD to the publisher. This allows us to minimise the volume of data input by utilising a centralised pool of publications data.

IRUS-UK (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics-United Kingdom)   provides COUNTER-conformant usage statistics for all content downloaded from participating UK institutional repositories (IRs).  IRUS-UK systematically scrutinises the open data from institutional repositories and removes data created by machine harvesting. This helps to give an accurate download figure of items from our repository. 

We also have the contents of the repository harvested and indexed by the UK's  CORE shared discovery service . This process helps to expose the contents of the Open Research Archive more completely and accurately to interested audiences around the world.

Questions or queries?

If you have any questions about the Open Research Archive, such as open access publishing, article processing charges (APCs), data repositories, Publishers' embargoes, open licences and ORCID iDs, please email  [email protected] .      

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St Mary's research students completing their doctorates are requested to deposit the full-text of their thesis in the  St Mary's Open Research Archive . This will enable the thesis to be made discoverable and accessible online to researchers around the globe. For more information and instructions on this process please contact  [email protected] . 

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Current and Former SMCM Students Present Aquatic Research

Two recent marine science graduates and one environmental studies major gave oral presentations at Morgan State’s Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) annual internship symposium on Aug. 2. 

Shelby Dittman ’24, Brittney Douglas ’24 and Sara Dapp ’25 all had internship opportunities — an example of the Honors College Promise to St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) students through the Learning through Experiential and Applied Discovery (LEAD) Initiative — this summer at PEARL located on the shoreline of the Patuxent River in St. Leonard, Maryland.

Dittman, Douglas and Dapp spent 10 weeks researching their respective topics under the mentorship of PEARL faculty prior to presenting at the symposium. 

PEARL research is designed to increase the understanding of coastal and environmental systems so that they can be properly managed and protected.

Under the mentorship of Ming Liu & Brittany Wolfe-Bryant, Dittman  studied oysters at the aquaculture facility at PEARL, specifically focused on how oysters, susceptible to low salinity and disease, can be made more tolerant to low salinity levels in parts of the Chesapeake Bay and get less disease-prone for enhancing the oyster fishery in the Bay. For example, Dittman found in her research that growing oysters from egg-larvae-adults with added probiotics decreased oyster mortality and increased oyster size. 

Elka Porter, associate professor of marine science at St. Mary’s College, said that what Dittman found in her research is of importance to oyster fisheries in the area. Porter said Dittman had a unique opportunity prior to her internship as she was recommended to work at PEARL’s hatchery during the spring semester. It was this opportunity that led to her internship.  

Douglas and Dapp, under the mentorship of Tom Ihde, continued a decades-long blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) survey at PEARL to help determine the health of the blue crab fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay. This project began in 1968. The two researchers regularly went in the field via boat, to set traps in the Bay and collect blue crabs, on which they measured abundance, size, sex, as well as the fishing effort and environmental data. In addition to catching crabs, they processed and analyzed raw environmental data that accompanied the existing data from the project that had never been analyzed.

Porter explained that their projects “Analysis of Callinectes sapidus Catch and Environmental Data,” and  “PEARL Blue Crab Survey: Analysis on Size and Environmental Factors “ respectively, helped provide an updated status on the Bay’s blue crab fisheries. 

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• Examine preliminary resources through your course readings and recommendations, your faculty member's suggestions, steps suggested below, and by consulting with librarians.
• Identify concepts and terms that make up the topic statement.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)  provides these guidelines on writing a thesis statement :

• Determine what kind of paper you are writing. Is it:
• analytical ?
• expository  (explanatory)? 
• argumentative ? 

If you are writing a text that does not fall under these three categories (e.g., a narrative), a thesis statement somewhere in the first paragraph could still be helpful to your reader.

2. Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.

3. The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.

4. Your topic may change as you write, so you may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the paper.

Examples and more tips are available from the  Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) .

UNLV University Libraries provide a tutorial on Choosing & Refining Your Topic . Questions to consider include:

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Guidance from the Temple University Writing Center states that an effective thesis statement should be

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• supportable

Additional guides are available at

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QS Employability Rankings  (Published: 23 September, 2021)

Employer reputation 30% Alumni outcomes 25% Partnerships with Employers per Faculty 25% Employer/Student Connections 10% Graduate employment rate 10%

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Academic reputation 30% Employer reputation 20% Faculty/student ratio 10% Papers per faculty 10% International research network 10%

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Academic reputation 30% Employer reputation 20% Faculty/student ratio 20% Staff with a PhD 10% Papers per faculty 10%

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Research Performance: 40%

• Research Output: 10%
• High-Quality Publications: 10%
• Influence: 10%
• Citations: 10%

Quality of Education: 25%

Alumni Employment: 25%

Quality of Faculty: 10%

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Research Productivity: 25%

• # Articles last 11 years: 10%
• # Articles current year: 15%

Research Impact: 35%

• # Citations last 11 years: 15%
• # Citations last 2 years: 10%
• Average # citations last 11 years: 10%

Research Excellence: 40%

• H-index last 2 years: 10%
• # Highly cited papers last 11 years: 15%
• # Articles current year in high-impact journals: 15%

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Teaching: 40%

• Ratio Faculty/Student: 8%
• Ratio Faculty/Bachelor Degrees Awarded: 8%
• Ratio Faculty/Doctoral Degrees Awarded: 8%
• Ratio Doctoral Degrees Awarded/Bachelor Degrees Awarded: 8%
• World Teaching Reputation: 8%

Research: 40%

• Citations per Academic/Research Staff: 8%
• Doctoral Degrees per Accepted PhD: 8%
• Normalized Citation Impact: 8%
• Papers per Academic/Research Staff: 8%
• World Research Reputation: 8%

International Diversity: 10%

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• Reputation Outside Geographical Region: 2%
• International Level: 2%

Financial Sustainability: 10%

• Institutional Income per Faculty: 2%
• Institutional Income per Student: 2%
• Papers per Research Income: 2%
• Research Income per Academic/Research Staff: 2%
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RUR Academic Rankings  (Published: 25 May, 2023)

Normalized citation impact (Citations of research publications from all university authors compared with world averages) 20% Citation per papers 20% Papers per academic and research staff 20% International research reputation 20% Share of research publications written in international co-authorship 20%

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Quality of Faculty 40%

• Staff winning Nobel Prizes/Field Medals 20%
• Highly Cited Researchers 20%

Research Output 40%

• Papers published in Nature and Science 20%
• Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded & Social Science Citation Index 20%

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The world university rankings  (published: 27 september, 2023).

30% Teaching (the Learning Environment)

• Reputation survey: 15%
• Staff-to-student ratio: 4.5%
• Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio: 2.25%
• Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio: 6%
• Institutional income: 2.25%

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• Reputation survey: 18%
• Research income: 6%
• Research productivity: 6%

30% Citations (Research Influence)

7.5% International Outlook (Staff, Students and Research)

• Proportion of international students: 2.5%
• Proportion of international staff: 2.5%
• International collaboration: 2.5%

2.5% Industry Income (Knowledge Transfer)"

THE World Reputation Rankings  (Published: 27 July, 2023)

Research Reputation 66,6% Teaching Reputation 33,3%

THE Emerging Economies University Ranking - Times Higher Education  (Published: 19 October, 2021)

Teaching 30% Research (volume, income and reputation) 30% Citations 20% International outlook (staff, students, research) 10% Industry income (knowledge transfer) 10%

THE Young University Rankings  (Published: 14 May, 2024)

Teaching 30% Research (volume, income and reputation) 30% Citations 30% International outlook (staff, students, research) 7.5% Industry income (knowledge transfer) 2.5%

THE World University Impact Rankings - Overall  (Published: 01 June, 2023)

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Visibility 50% Excellence 35% Transparency 10% Presence 5%