Tuajuanda C. Jordan has served as the seventh president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland since July 1, 2014.

[1][2] From 2006 to 2011, Jordan served as director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Alliance program, where she launched the SEA-PHAGES program.

[3] This program has been implemented at more than 100 institutions and resulted in numerous scientific and pedagogical publications.

[6] Jordan’s recent honors include being named as one of Fisk University’s Talented Tenth[7] (2016), Purdue University Distinguished Women Scholar[8] (2015-15), and Influential Marylander[9] by the Daily Record (2015).

She received the Torchbearer Award[10] (2014) from the National Coalition of Black Women, Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter, and was inducted (2015) into the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.