Hood College to Help National Park Service Fight Harmful Algae in Washington, D.C.
Hood College's Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies has been awarded a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service to research methods of mitigating cyanobacteria blooms in the constructed lake at Constitution Gardens, a large catchment in Washington, D.C.
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Loyola University Maryland Faculty Members Receive Changemaker Challenge Award
Lisa Schoenbrodt, Ed.D., professor of speech-language-hearing sciences and department chair, and Leah Katherine Saal, Ph.D., assistant professor of literacy and co-director of the literacy program, were awarded a $10,000 cash prize for their submission in the Howard County Changemaker Challenge competition.
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Hood College Community Members Named to Top 50 CEOs List
President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D., Board of Trustees members Theresa Harrison and Tom Kleinhanzl, and alumni RaeAnn Butler ’89 and James Racheff, M.S.’93, MBA’02, were all named to Frederick’s Top 50 CEOs list by the Frederick County Office of Economic Development.
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Mount St. Mary's University Donates 25 Refurbished Laptops in Service Learning Project
Several Mount students and faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science spent their fall break in service of others—refurbishing and retrofitting 25 laptop computers to be donated to Delone Catholic High School.
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Q&A: McDaniel College’s Safety Director to Accept Governor’s Crime Prevention Award in Annapolis
McDaniel College will be recognized in the state capital Dec. 5 when the Department of Campus Safety for the first time receives the Governor’s Crime Prevention Award.
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McDaniel College Announces Eight New Undergraduate Majors
McDaniel College is adding eight new undergraduate majors beginning Fall 2020. The new bachelor’s degrees include Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Biomedical Science, Criminal Justice, Health Sciences, Marketing and Writing and Publishing.
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These 8 Ventures are Entering Loyola’s First Baltipreneurs Accelerator
Loyola University Maryland named the cohort of the first Baltipreneurs accelerator this week.
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ALL IN Challenge Honors College Campuses For Excellence In Student Voter Engagement (MICA)
Overall turnout for college students reached 40.3 percent in the 2018 midterm election, a more than two-fold increase over 2014; this growth was greater than that of the general electorate and can be attributed to renewed efforts on the part of colleges and universities to prepare their students to engage in our democracy. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge believes that this success should be celebrated and recognized.
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Johns Hopkins Honored for Significant Increase in Student Voter Turnout
Johns Hopkins University received national recognition Tuesday for dramatically increasing student voting participation in the 2018 midterm elections compared to the previous midterm cycle four years earlier, a jump that was among the largest of any college or university in the country, according to the group that studies and releases related data.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Four Loyola Students Named University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University
Four Loyola students have been selected University Innovation Fellows (UIF) by Stanford University.
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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.
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