- The Baha’is of Carroll County present “Relevance of Religion in Times of Crisis,” a lecture by McDaniel College Assistant Professor of Communication Deborah Vance, at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at 239 W. Main St., on the McDaniel College campus. » Full Story - Good books make great gifts during the holiday season. McDaniel College Associate Librarian Jane Sharpe presents her picks for the best new books to give and get at noon on Nov. 15 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - Chamber Music on the Hill, in collaboration with McDaniel College, Carroll Community College, Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County and the Children’s Chorus of Carroll County, present the world premiere of “Einstein’s Dreams (it’s about time…)” at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Scott Center at Carroll Community College. » Full Story3/20/2006 - The following April music events are all free and open to the public, except where otherwise noted. For information, call 410-857-2599, except when otherwise noted. » Full Story - Commercial real estate developer Leroy M. Merritt, whose 13 million square feet of industrial and office properties in the Baltimore-Washington area include several athletic clubs, will make a gift of $2 million to McDaniel College to support the construction of a new fitness center on its Westminster, Md., campus. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents its December concerts. All of the following concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, call (410) 857-2599. » Full Story - “Hip Hop on the Hill,” sponsored by the McDaniel College departments of Music and Sociology and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, will be presented at 8 p.m. Nov. 30 in WMC Alumni Hall. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (410) 857-2294 » Full Story - Playback Theatre is returning to the McDaniel College campus at 8 p.m. Dec. 1 in WMC Alumni Hall. The performance is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call (410) 857-2294. » Full Story - The following fall concerts at McDaniel College are free and open to the public. For more information, call (410) 857-2599 . » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Art and Art History presents “…Validation?” paintings by Jeffrey Kent from Nov. 28-Dec. 21 in the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery. The opening reception will be held 7-9 p.m. Nov. 28 in the gallery. » Full Story - The Office of Multicultural Services presents human rights activist Enrique Morones at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 in Decker Auditorium. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Theatre Arts presents the musical comedy “Urinetown” at 8 p.m. Nov. 15-18 in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents the third annual Madrigal Feast at 6 p.m. Nov. 11 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents a piano recital by the students of David Kreider at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in Levine Recital Hall. » Full Story - To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, the McDaniel College Department of Music presents “Music of Mozart with David Kreider and Friends” at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - Karla FC Holloway, professor of English, Law, and Women’s Studies as Duke University, will be the keynote speaker at McDaniel College’s Holloway Lecture, “BookMarks: Reading Race, Reading Sports, and Other Public Preoccupations,” at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 in McDaniel Lounge. The annual lecture is sponsored by the department of English. » Full Story - McDaniel College Department of Art and Art History presents “Ecstatic Pastoral: Paintings by Mark Hatfield” Oct. 31-Nov. 22 in the Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall. An opening reception will be held 7-9 p.m. Oct. 31 in the gallery. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents Monday Night Music, featuring Kathrin Murray on Guitar Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. in McDaniel Lounge » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Art & Art History presents the third bi-ennial McDaniel College Faculty Art Show Oct. 3-Oct. 27 at the Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall. The opening reception will be held Oct. 3 from 7-9 p.m. at the gallery. » Full Story - To mark the centennial of playwright Samuel Beckett’s birth, McDaniel College Theatre presents “Waiting for Godot,” Oct. 4-7 at 8 p.m. in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa presents “Lakota Winter Counts and the Cultural Interpretation of Time,” a lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Ray DeMallie, at 8 p.m. Sept. 18 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - The touring theatre company National Players presents two plays at McDaniel College on Sept. 16. Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” will show at 2 p.m., and William Shakespeare’s “Othello” will be presented at 8 p.m., both in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story - The McDaniel College departments of History, English and Music present “Songs of Sappho,” a performance-lecture by Paula Saffire, at 8 p.m. Sept. 14 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Art and Art History presents “Ten Years of Balance: The Sculpture of William R. Bergman” Sept. 5-29 in the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall. » Full Story - "Rising McDaniel College senior Peter Calvo turned 21 in June and fittingly took a trip to Las Vegas." » Full Story - "The first head-to-head conflict in what promises to be a contentious governor's race is brewing this week over education, the issue that state voters say is their biggest concern." » Full Story - "Every summer since 1996, thousands of people have made an annual pilgrimage to the seat of Carroll County to watch Ravens training camp at McDaniel College." » Full Story5/22/2006 - More than 100 third graders from Hampstead Elementary School will present seedlings they have grown for a Take Pride in America garden at noon June 6 at the Residences at the Hampstead School, a non-profit senior living community. » Full Story5/2/2006 - McDaniel College, in collaboration with Quest’s Wing Company, will offer summer camps in theatre and creative writing for deaf children in grades three to six. » Full Story4/27/2006 - McDaniel College MLA candidate Kevin Thornton will present selected readings from his memoir “Middle Man” at 7 p.m. May 11 in Decker Auditorium, located in Lewis Hall of Science. » Full Story4/25/2006 - The Department of Art and Art History presents “Liquid/Solid: New Abstraction by Contemporary Painters” May 16 through June 16 in the Rice Gallery at Peterson Hall. The artists’ reception will be held 7-9 p.m. May 19. » Full Story4/25/2006 - Two alumni Otto J. Guenther and Sherry F. Manning were named to the McDaniel College Board of Trustees at the business meeting held on the Westminster campus April 21. Both join the 43-member Board led by Chair James I. Melhorn, president and CEO of EMA, Inc. of Eldersburg, Md. » Full Story4/20/2006 - Speakers at McDaniel College’s 136th Commencement include Nora Roberts, author of more than 140 novels, and Jane Bryant Quinn, author of the best-selling books “Making the Most of Your Money” and “Everyone's Money Book.” They will each receive an honorary degree. » Full Story4/20/2006 - McDaniel College’s Deaf awareness club Eye to Eye presents “Ethics, Ethnicity, and the Deaf-World.” Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Harlan Lane, specialist in the psychology of linguistics of the Deaf, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 25 in the Forum at Decker Student Center. » Full Story4/19/2006 - Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, will read from his poetry at 4 p.m. April 25 in Hoover Library’s Richwine Room. The event is sponsored by the Department of English. » Full Story4/18/2006 - May music events are all free and open to the public. For information, call 410-857-2599. » Full Story4/14/2006 - McDaniel College presents “A New Wave of Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran” at 7 p.m. April 18 in Lewis Hall of Science’s Decker Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-857-2294. » Full Story4/11/2006 - Three scholars in religious studies will present an interfaith discussion, “The Clash of Religious Certainties: Understanding Ancient Texts Anew in a Contemporary World,” at 7 p.m. April 25 on campus in McDaniel Lounge. McDaniel’s Visiting Fulbright Scholar Dr. Muslih Tayo Yahya, the Reverend Dr. Christopher Leighton, and Rabbi Mark Loeb will participate in the dialogue centered on the Koran, the New Testament, and the Torah. » Full Story4/12/2006 - McDaniel College presents the Prologue from “Einstein’s Dreams (It’s about time…)” during the College Choir Concert “Dreams and Voyages” at 7 p.m. April 23 in (Big) Baker Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-857-2599. » Full Story3/31/2006 - Notable Events:
- Donald Trump’s Season four apprentice Randall Pinkett speaks, April 10
- Spoken word poetry group El Grito De Poetas, April 13
» Full Story3/21/2006 - Fulbright Scholar Dr. Muslih Tayo Yahya presents “Islam and Modern Concepts: Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization,” 7 p.m. March 28 in McDaniel Lounge. Music Lecturer Jonathan Seligman and the McDaniel College Percussion Ensemble will perform at the event, which is Yahya’s opening reception and lecture while in residence at McDaniel College. » Full Story3/21/2006 - Poet Rodney Jones will deliver the 20th annual B. Christopher Bothe Lecture at 8 p.m. April 4 in McDaniel Lounge. Jones will read poems from his new book, "Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005" (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). » Full Story3/20/2006 - The McDaniel College Department of Art and Art History presents its spring exhibitions in Peterson Hall’s Rice Gallery. Receptions are free and open to the public. For information and gallery hours, call 410-857-2595. » Full Story - Pulitzer Prize winning author and McDaniel Visiting Lecturer Michael Dirda (left) will speak about the importance of libraries at 6:30 p.m. March 30 in McDaniel College’s Hoover Library, as the College celebrates the establishment of the W. Byers Unger Library Endowment Fund. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-857-2294. » Full Story3/14/2006 - The lesbian couple leading a fight for same-sex marriage rights in Maryland will explain their stance in “The Same-Sex Marriage Debate” 7:30 p.m. March 29 in McDaniel College’s McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story3/15/2006 - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents the second annual Madrigal Feast at 6 p.m. April 1 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story3/15/2006 - The McDaniel College Music Department Jazz Faculty presents Blue Moon Big Band at 6 p.m. March 26 at the Carroll County Arts Council. » Full Story3/7/2005 - “The Sculpture of Trey Hill, Melissa Mencini and John Zimmerman” will be on exhibit March 15-19 in the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall on the McDaniel College campus. » Full Story - David Carrasco ’67, professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School, will interpret a Mexican national treasure in the annual Ridington Lecture, ”Labyrinth, City and Eagle's Nest: Ritual Ordeals in a Mexican Codex,” at 8 p.m. March 23 in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Bilingual Education: Training for All Teachers Program will host guest speaker James Crawford, Executive Director of the National Association for Bilingual Education, at 7:30 p.m. March 21 in Decker Auditorium, Lewis Hall of Science. » Full Story - McDaniel College named Beth Gerl to the position of Vice President and Dean of Student affairs, effective July 1, 2006 » Full Story - Renowned Epidemiologist Steven Blair, who found that people can be both fat and fit, will present the Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture at McDaniel College 8 p.m. March 9 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Art and Art History presents “Interpretations of Place: The Paintings and Drawings of Hans Habeger and Karina Hean” March 7-31 in Peterson Hall’s Rice Gallery. The artist’s reception will be held 7-9 p.m. March 7. » Full Story - The music of jazz great Miles Davis comes to life in The McDaniel College Jazz Faculty in Concert 7 p.m. March 6 in McDaniel Lounge, presented by Monday Night Music. » Full Story - Westminster, MD -- U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski will discuss her plan to help Maryland families pay for college at a news conference 11:30 a.m. Feb. 27 in McDaniel College’s McDaniel Lounge » Full Story - Performing research in the field of Art and Art History took Michael Marlais through library stacks and across the French countryside. Marlais will give the annual Honors Program Lecture 8 p.m. Mar. 2 in McDaniel Lounge. » Full Story - Bodiography, a contemporary ballet company dedicated to eating disorder awareness, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 in Carroll Arts Center thanks to McDaniel Student Suzanne Gilbert. » Full Story - Children of all ages will find something to enjoy at “The Children’s Corner,” presented by Chamber Music on the Hill at 3 p.m. Feb. 12 at Carroll Community College’s Scott Center. » Full Story - McDaniel College Theatre presents “Criminals in Love,” a play by George F. Walker, at 8 p.m. Mar. 1-4 in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents concert pianist Thomas Mastroianni at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 3 in McDaniel Lounge. Mastroianni, also professor emeritus of piano at Catholic University of America, will present a recital and lecture, “Franz Liszt The Italian Years: Art, Religion, and Death.” The event is free and open to the public. » Full Story - The McDaniel College Music Department will open to the public class lectures in its course “Einstein’s Dreams,” based on the novel by Alan Lightman. The book describes the ephemeral dreams of young Einstein as he created his theory of relativity. » Full Story - Civil Rights Leader Rosa Parks’ legacy lives on in the documentary “Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks.” It is presented as part of the McDaniel College Multicultural Service’s spring film series “Justice on My Mind.” » Full Story - The McDaniel College Department of Music presents a piano recital by the students of Music Lecturer David Krieder at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 in Levine Recital Hall. » Full Story - McDaniel College is offering free tax filing through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program for community members with low to moderate incomes. Although eligibility depends on individual circumstances, low to moderate incomes are generally considered less than $35,000 a year for singles and less than $45,000 for couples. » Full Story - In association with the national V-Day 2006 College Campaign, McDaniel College student performers present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” 8 p.m. Feb. 10-11 in WMC Alumni Hall. » Full Story2/1/2006 - The department of Art and Art History presents “Out of Place,” an exhibit of drawings and paintings by conceptual artist Richard Garrison. » Full Story |