When he embarked six years ago on a Facebook search for name twins, Paul O’Sullivan ’09 could not have imagined that he and three other musician Paul O’Sullivans would end 2020 with the release of their band’s first mini-album, “Internet Famous: A Retrospective.” Nor could Baltimore Paul – so nicknamed to distinguish him from the band’s other Pauls – have guessed that the album would bring media attention to the band from as far away as New Zealand and include Forbes, CBS National News, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and People magazine.
Two virtual events organized by McDaniel’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion take place Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m. McDaniel’s Office of Student Engagement along with the Black Student Union, Africa’s Legacy, and Curl Friends student organizations are partnering on these events.
McDaniel College celebrates I Love the Hill month through February. With Feb. 23 marking the third annual I Love the Hill Day, alumni, students, faculty, staff, and more share the many reasons they love the Hill throughout the month.
Jennifer Yang has been named the entrepreneur-in-residence for McDaniel College’s newly named Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, formerly known as The Encompass Distinction. As the entrepreneur-in-residence, Yang provides instruction and business strategy advice to students in the program. Yang is an entrepreneur with more than 23 years of strategy, management, and technology consulting experience working with CXO-level stakeholders at Fortune 50 companies, start-up ventures, and federal agencies.
McDaniel College announces its Fall 2020 dean's list, recognizing full-time undergraduate students for outstanding academic achievement. Highest honors are earned for a semester grade point average of 3.90 or higher, high honors for a grade point average of 3.70-3.89, and honors for a 3.50-3.69 grade point average.
Dr. Julia Jasken has been selected by the McDaniel College Board of Trustees as the college’s tenth president, effective June 1, 2021. Jasken will be only the second woman president in the college’s history. She has dedicated nearly her entire professional life to higher education and most notably to McDaniel, beginning in the classroom in 2003 as an English professor and most recently has served as the college’s executive vice president and provost.
Alumni may have been wondering where the summer issue of The Hill magazine was this year, but they got the answer on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 when the magazine launched digitally for the second consecutive issue. Although The Hill could not be printed in 2020, a new digital platform ensured the McDaniel College community was able to stay up to date with their friends, classmates, and the college.
McDaniel College has named two new members to its Board of Trustees. Jin Kang of Great Falls, Va., is president and chief executive officer of WidePoint Corporation. Susan C. Stevenson of Ashland, Mass., a 1985 alumna of the college, is an executive director at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
The Daily Record has selected McDaniel College President Roger N. Casey as a 2020 Icon Honors recipient. Icon Honors awards recognize leaders across Maryland in business, law, politics, and nonprofits for their long-standing commitment to Maryland and significant professional accomplishments through innovation and leadership.
Rachel Druckenmiller ’06 has been recognized among The Daily Record’s 2020 Leading Women. The Daily Record’s Leading Women awards recognize women who are 40 or younger for the accomplishments they have made so far in their careers. Druckenmiller, the founder and chief executive officer of Unmuted, LLC, is an award-winning and nationally-recognized thought leader with over a dozen years of experience in the field of workplace wellbeing and culture.
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