McDaniel student actors perform in McDaniel College Theatre's production of “Legally Blonde." Performances are Thursday, April 3-Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in WMC Alumni Hall. Note: the show contains adult material and is intended for mature audiences.
To kick off National Poetry Month, McDaniel College hosts the annual B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecture with spoken word artist and Maryland Poet Laureate Lady Brion. The event takes place on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall. It is free and open to the public.
McDaniel College has named Peter Spartin '84 to its Board of Trustees. Spartin, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration, is currently managing director for Globalis Partners, an affiliate of Butler Capital Partners.
Alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends showed their support for current and future McDaniel students during the 1867 Challenge. The entire McDaniel community came together during this year's annual giving campaign to raise $483,839 from 635 donors in 1,876 minutes to honor the college's founding year.
Titled “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy,” the exhibition runs Thursday, March 13–Friday, March 28, in Esther Prangley Rice Gallery. An opening reception takes place Thursday, March 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 6 p.m. McDaniel students exhibiting their work are senior Art majors Gillian Girod, Lacy Newhouse, Zoe Shelby, Sarah Watson, and Aaliyah Williams.
The 1867 Challenge, McDaniel College's annual giving campaign, kicks off on Tuesday, March 11, at 9 a.m. and runs through Wednesday, March 12, at 4:07 p.m. That's 1,867 minutes of giving to honor McDaniel’s founding year in support of current and future students.
At the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region II, Assistant Professor Shana Joslyn was awarded the Innovative Teaching Award; Theatre Arts junior Ave Maria Contreras won best director for a 24-hour play; and alum Jeremy Volker ’24 earned the regional first place Randy Lutz Allied Design & Technology Award for makeup design.
A group of seven students from McDaniel College traveled to Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, for "Independent Higher Education Day," along with President Julia Jasken, Associate Vice President for Administration and Government Relations Jenni Glennon, and Social Work Professor Jim Kunz.
Five McDaniel students presented research at the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting. Their collaborative Kinesiology research projects in exercise science were conducted with mentorship from Professor Jennifer McKenzie ’01 and Associate Professor Richard Laird.
D’Jaris Coles-White, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is the inaugural program director for the developing Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. The program has received approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) and is expected to launch in spring 2027, pending approval by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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