Loyola Taps Head of Brightview Senior Living as 'Business Leader of the Year'
Brightview Senior Living CEO Marilynn Duker has been named Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business and Management's 2019 Business Leader of the Year.
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Hood Professor Wins Poetry Prize for her Newest Collection
Elizabeth Knapp, an associate professor of English at Hood College, won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak.”
New Agreements Benefit Engineering Students at McDaniel, Carroll
McDaniel College President Roger N. Casey along with Rosalie Mince, vice president for Academic and Student Affairs at Carroll Community College, and Ron Laue, assistant dean of the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, signed memorandums of understanding benefiting students interested in engineering careers during a ceremony held Oct. 16 at McDaniel.
Top of her Field: Carroll County Science Teacher and McDaniel College Alumna Honored as One of Best in US
Denise Kresslein, a life science teacher at North Carroll Middle School, was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) recently in a ceremony in Washington D.C.
Goucher College Creates Project to Research History of Slavery on Campus Land
Goucher College has launched the Hallowed Ground Project to study the role of slavery and racism in the history of the land it currently occupies.
Four Loyola Students Named University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University
Four Loyola students have been selected University Innovation Fellows (UIF) by Stanford University.
Johns Hopkins Student Team Wins $5K at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Relavo, a startup founded and staffed by a team of Johns Hopkins students, was named the undergraduate runner-up at the Collegiate Inventors Competition in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday. Their device, PeritoneX, protects patients with kidney failure from developing infections during at-home peritoneal dialysis treatments.
Dan Rodricks: With the help of MICA mentors, these Baltimore squeegee boys are moving into a new business
I walk in on the weekly board meeting of Korner Boyz Enterprises, and it’s pretty much what you’d expect —12 people seated around a long conference table, projection equipment set up for a video presentation and everyone with a bottle of water.
St. John's College: A New Model for a New Reality
St. John's College administrators insisted they were going against the grain last year when they announced that tuition was being reduced from $52,000 to $35,000.
USNA and St. John’s College forge work-study partnership
The U.S. Naval Academy and St. John’s College (SJC) have recently developed and formalized a unique, mutually beneficial program to use students of SJC to fill Naval Academy job vacancies available through the Naval Academy Business Services Division.
MICA Hopes New Entrepreneurship Center will be a National Model
Maryland Institute College of Art plans to open a center for entrepreneurship next year, expanding the university’s moves create a national model for incorporating business education with an art and design core.
Chester River Runs through New College Environmental Center
Environmental students are often attracted to Chestertown’s Washington College for its proximity to the Chester River and the Chesapeake Bay. But the college’s new, $11.5 million environmental center brings the Chester literally into the classroom.
McDaniel Students Get Practice, Feedback at Annual Interviewing Day
For most, interviewing for a potential job or internship is a nerve-wracking experience. But this week, McDaniel College students got the opportunity to practice their interview skills in low-pressure situations, while receiving immediate feedback and all the while still making connections for possible future employment.
Goucher Project to Tackle History of Slaves on Campus Land
Goucher College Wednesday launched an effort to recognize and study the history of slavery on lands where the college now sits, including the removal of racist language from the university’s original deed for the land.
U.S. News Names Stevenson Best Value School
Stevenson University has won U.S. News’ Best Value award in the Regional North category for the second year in a row.
