McDaniel’s Class of 2025 is skillful, engaged, and experienced with rigorous research, internships, and campus organizations. At every turn, they connected with peers, professors, and community to make a difference.
Psychology Professor Jack D. Arnal is the 2025 Charles A. Boehlke, Jr. Engaged Faculty Fellow. Established with a gift from Charles A. Boehlke, Jr., a 1978 alum of the college and current member of the McDaniel Board of Trustees, faculty are named Boehlke Fellows in recognition of their exceptional commitment to their students, not only in classrooms and research labs but also with career and internship experiences.
Bernie Vogel, owner of JeannieBird Baking Company, received the 2025 Delta of Maryland Lifelong Learner Award from the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society at McDaniel College during the college's daylong Academic Symposium on Monday, May 5.
McDaniel College selects eight students into the college's Global Fellows program. The Global Fellows program is designed to enhance students’ understanding of global issues, develop heightened intercultural competency, and cultivate the skills and attitudes important to leading successful lives in a global context. Students earn a Global Fellow designation on their transcript upon completion of the program.
Cinema majors premiere their original student-produced narrative and documentary films as the culminating project for their senior capstone during the annual McDaniel Cinema Showcase on Wednesday, May 7, and Thursday, May 8. Free and open to the public, screenings begin at 6:30 p.m. in Decker Auditorium, Lewis Hall of Science. There will be a brief Q&A with the filmmaker after each film.
Two McDaniel alumni received Trustee Alumni Awards, the highest alumni honor given at McDaniel, during the Trustee-Faculty Dinner held May 2. The 2025 recipients are Jennifer Hill Bubczyk '93, president of Hill Development Group LLC and an active supporter of McDaniel’s Carroll County Scholars program, and Norm Sartorius '69, an acclaimed woodworker known for his fine art wooden spoons.
McDaniel students were inducted this spring into academic honor societies, including Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology), Beta Beta Beta (Biology), Kappa Mu Epsilon (Math), Lambda Pi Eta (Communication), Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics), Phi Alpha Theta (History), Psi Chi (Psychology), and Sigma Tau Delta (English), as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Update: Sana Askari, junior Political Science, Business Administration, and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies major who presented Esheel, earned the $5,000 top prize as the first-place winner at McDaniel's 2025 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Advanced Theatre students at McDaniel perform in the premiere of an original devised theatre piece directed by Gené Fouché, assistant professor and department chair of Theatre Arts. Titled “Theory of RelativiTV,” performances are Thursday, May 1-Saturday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre in WMC Alumni Hall.
Stephanie Madsen, professor of Psychology, published a study on the phenomenon of imaginary athletes, inspired by her class The Power of Play. In this Q&A, Madsen shares how psychology and play intersect, plus how she teaches students to make real-world connections.
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