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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Loyola University Maryland named the cohort of the first Baltipreneurs accelerator this week.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 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 have been selected University Innovation Fellows (UIF) by Stanford University.
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.
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 administrators insisted they were going against the grain last year when they announced that tuition was being reduced from $52,000 to $35,000.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Stevenson University has won U.S. News’ Best Value award in the Regional North category for the second year in a row.
U.S. News and World Report ranked Notre Dame of Maryland University (NDMU) as tied for No. 59 in its Regional Universities North classification. NDMU was also ranked as tied for No. 22 in its Top Performers on Social Mobility classification, the highest of any Maryland institution in this regional category.
Lori Adamo, a Paraeducator at The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB), has been named the Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB) 2019 Outstanding Paraprofessional for Students with Visual Impairments.
Mount St. Mary’s Literary Magazine Receives Medal from Columbia Scholastic Press Association for 10th Time in 12 Years
A professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Since 1989, the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College has welcomed more than 285,000 visitors — from Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, nearly all 50 states and close to 100 countries.
Five Johns Hopkins PhD students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering have been named Siebel Scholars for 2020. The annual award recognizes the world's top graduate students in the fields of business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science. They are among 93 winners from 16 leading universities.
