The $1.4 million renovation of Harvey Stone Park and Pavilion, supported by a grant from the State of Maryland and private donations, including a leadership gift from McDaniel Trustee Carroll L. "Splinter" Yingling '68 and his wife, Susan Morales Yingling '70, M.S. '00, has transformed the facility into an outdoor living-learning laboratory and will host student gatherings and campus events.
McDaniel College has been awarded a four-year grant totaling $580,100 from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to purchase new state-of-the-art scientific equipment for research and teaching in McDaniel’s Biology, Chemistry, and Health Sciences departments.
Alumni are invited back to campus Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, for a weekend of engaging activities to reconnect and reminisce. Special milestone Reunion events take place for classes ending in one and six.
Capstone works by senior Art majors are featured in two end-of-the-year exhibitions in McDaniel’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery. "Senior Capstone Exhibition One" runs Tuesday, April 14-Friday, April 24, with a reception on Thursday, April 16, while "Senior Capstone Exhibition Two" runs Tuesday, April 28-Thursday, May 14, with a reception on Thursday, April 30.
McDaniel College announces Commencement speakers for the 2026 undergraduate and graduate ceremonies to be held Saturday, May 23. Undergraduate Commencement speaker is McDaniel College Trustee Robert Pick '92, P’25, executive vice president and chief information officer for Tokio Marine North America. Ochieng’ K’Olewe, the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair at McDaniel, will provide remarks during the graduate ceremony. More information is available at mcdaniel.edu/commencement.
In addition to Friends School, McDaniel College has created admission pathways for students at a number of high schools. Other schools include Saint John’s Catholic Prep in Maryland, Saint Joseph Academy in New Jersey, and Berks Catholic High School, Delone Catholic High School, and York Catholic in Pennsylvania.
Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture features political sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation and host of the Edge of Sports Television on The Real News Network, who speaks on sports and resistance in the United States. The lecture takes place on Tuesday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Poet and essayist Bernard Jankowski ’80 delivers McDaniel College’s 37th annual B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecture on the eve of National Poetry Month on Tuesday, March 31. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall.
Winners were announced during the opening reception of the Kathryn E. Wentz Juried Undergraduate Exhibition on Thursday, March 26. The exhibition runs through Friday, April 10, in McDaniel College's Esther Prangley Rice Gallery.
McDaniel College’s Admissions Office, along with the Green Terror, surprised five high school seniors from Anne Arundel and Carroll counties in Maryland and Lititz, Pennsylvania, with full four-year scholarships as the college’s newest Dorsey Scholars for the Class of 2030. The Dorsey Scholars Program is the highest academic honor at McDaniel.
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