Math class often gets a bad rap, as Assistant Professor of Education Laura Albaugh Bitto ’04 is well aware. Bitto, a math teacher educator, is working to change this, and recently gained support in her mission with a yearlong fellowship from the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.
New faculty include Virginia Kuulei Berndt, Sociology; Ani Gesheva M.S. '23, Business Administration; Lt. Col. Jason Johnson, Military Science; Nicole O'Reilly, Social Work; Adriano Lima e Silva, Accounting; and Catherine Springer-Sapp, Kinesiology and Health Sciences. McDaniel has also promoted Lisa Buckler M.S. '06, Early Childhood Education; Gené Fouché, Theatre Arts; and Heidi MacGlaughlin M.S. '96, Deaf Education.
McDaniel student actors perform in a depiction of Moisés Kaufman’s thrilling drama based on the true events surrounding the downfall of the renowned playwright and author Oscar Wilde. Performances are Thursday, Oct. 3-Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre in WMC Alumni Hall. Note: the show contains adult material and is intended for mature audiences.
The annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture presents "Slavery in Two Worlds: East Africans in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean” by University of Virginia professor Kristina Richardson on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The Holloway Lecture features bestselling author and humorist Gina Barreca from the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Oct. 3. Both events take place at 7:30 p.m. in McDaniel Hall's Coley Rice Lounge and are free and open to the public.
McDaniel College welcomed the Class of 2028 — one of the college's largest incoming classes — with 540 first-year and transfer students during move-in and orientation events.
McDaniel College welcomes the newest class of Green Terrors to the Hill with 540 first-year and transfer students, one of the college's largest incoming classes. New student orientation for the Class of 2028 kicks off at move-in on Thursday, Aug. 22.
Every summer, McDaniel students make strides in their academic and professional savvy with the donor-funded Student-Faculty Collaborative Summer Research Program. By engaging with pressing issues — like contributing data to a global study on insect declines or surveying Maryland high school educators about current challenges — they gain skills that serve their communities now and in the future.
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