Five Baltimore City high school seniors earn full-tuition McDaniel-CollegeBound Scholarships
Five Baltimore City high school students were surprised by McDaniel College’s Admissions and Financial Aid Offices over Zoom with full-tuition scholarships to attend McDaniel as part of the incoming Class of 2024.
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Loyola University Maryland faculty awarded grant to build a strong pipeline of diverse STEM educators
Afra Hersi, Ph.D., associate professor of Literacy Education and chair of the Teacher Education Department, and Tim Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, received a $75,000 one-year grant from the National Science Foundation within the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
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Loyola named Top School for Service for post-graduate service efforts
The Catholic Volunteer Network (CVN) has named Loyola University Maryland a Top School for Service, including Loyola as one of only seven universities in the Mid-Atlantic to receive this achievement.
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The Maryland Institute College of Art Presents Class of 2020 Work Online
MICA may not be open physically, but online it can be accessed everywhere.
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Retired Hood College Professor Wins Award, Scholarship Established in Her Name
Joyce Michaud, a recently retired professor who founded and directed Hood College’s internationally renowned ceramics graduate program, recently received an award for teaching excellence and was honored with the establishment of a scholarship.
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Loyola students to host virtual Relay for Life event
The Relay for Life of Loyola University Maryland will host a virtual event on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Videos from the virtual event can be viewed on Loyola’s Relay for Life Instagram and Facebook pages.
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Join Hood College to Help the American Red Cross During a Severe Blood Shortage
Are you looking for a way to help save up to three lives? Join the Hood College Cares “SleevesUp” blood donation challenge running through May 15.
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Chatbots And Virtual Assistants To Be Used in College, A New Way Of Learning at Loyola
As college campuses are nearly shut down physically, administrators are more inclined to use chatbots as well as virtual assistants to aid them in their teaching endeavors. This can help preserve, build, and even nurture relationships with students.
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Hood Relaunches Graduate Education Programs to Accommodate Working Professionals
The Graduate School at Hood College is relaunching its programs in Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction, and Multidisciplinary Studies in Education to make them more flexible and convenient for teachers and other working professionals.
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Goucher College Names Michele Y. Ewing As New Vice President For Advancement
Goucher College is proud to announce that Michele Y. Ewing will be the college's new vice president for advancement.
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Maine, Maryland Institutions Including Hood College To Study Warm Waters, Lobsters
A group of institutions from Maine and Maryland is using a National Science Foundation grant to study the impact the warming of New England waters is having on baby lobsters.
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Hood College president remains busy despite campus closure
Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College, has only gotten busier since the school decided to make the rest of its semester virtual on March 10.
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Capitol's Roots Are in Distance Learning
As universities across the nation switch to purely online classes, some are calling this a new look at education. I'd call it a retro take—we're going back to a mode of education Capitol perfected in 1927.
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Mona Kerby of McDaniel College Named a National Award Recipient
Mona Kerby, the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair at McDaniel College, has been named the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians' Distinguished Service Award.
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3D printers at Loyola create face shields for local health care professionals
Faculty and staff members at Loyola University Maryland are using 3D printers and laser cutters to create face shields for hospitals in the Baltimore area. The initiative was launched by Open Works, a makerspace in Baltimore, and We the Builders, a group of makers in Baltimore who build sculptures from 3D-printed materials.
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