Senior Theatre Arts major Kim Parson participated in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Gateway Program in mid-March and was chosen to represent region II in lighting design at the national Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival after competing at the regional level in January.
Representatives from McDaniel College, Baltimore City Public Schools, and the CollegeBound Foundation surprised five Baltimore City high school seniors with full-tuition scholarships to attend McDaniel College as part of the Class of 2028. They each received a scholarship covering full tuition for all four years at McDaniel, valued at approximately $200,000.
Business Administration major Javon Spencer was selected for a fellowship with Innovators of Progress, a pre-accelerator program designed to support entrepreneurial college students with up to $140,000. Spencer is the first McDaniel College student to receive an Innovators of Progress Fellowship.
McDaniel College announces Commencement speakers for the 2024 undergraduate and graduate ceremonies to be held on Saturday, May 18. Undergraduate Commencement speaker is higher education leader Freeman A. Hrabowski III. Graduate coordinator Mona Kerby, the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair at McDaniel, will provide remarks during the graduate ceremony.
Students were inducted April 8 into the Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society at McDaniel College. Omicron Delta Kappa was installed at the college in 1963.
Students were inducted April 5 into McDaniel College's Alpha Mu Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta (TriBeta) national biological honor society. There were two inductees for associate membership and 10 for active membership. Ben Smith, director of the McDaniel College STEM Center, was also inducted as an honorary member.
Alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends showed their support for current and future McDaniel students during One Hill, One Day, McDaniel's annual giving campaign. The entire McDaniel community came together this year to raise $462,842 from 700 donors.
Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture at McDaniel College features national sports journalist Kevin Blackistone, commentator for The Washington Post, who speaks on sport myths and social justice. The lecture, titled "Don’t Believe the Type: Sport in American History," takes place Tuesday, April 9, at 7 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall. It is free and open to the public.
"I Am Who? This is Me.” is the first of two Art capstone exhibitions at McDaniel. The exhibition runs Tuesday, April 2-Friday, April 19, in McDaniel’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall. An opening reception takes place Friday, April 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 6 p.m.
McDaniel College has been recognized on the Executive Alliance’s Honor Roll among the colleges and universities in Maryland with the most representation by women on their boards and executive leadership teams. Additionally, McDaniel College President Julia Jasken has been selected by the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland as a recipient of their Distinguished Women Awards.
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