McDaniel College hopes a new engineering track will help modernize its liberal arts education, not replace the liberal arts with something more practical. The college has been reevaluating its program offerings, a process that has included suspending some programs. “What ...

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Johns Hopkins University and McDaniel College have rewarded some students who also run their own businesses at campus pitch competitions this past week. Monday night, McDaniel College awarded its $10,000 to junior Rachael Fox for her shoe company, Fox Boots. ...

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McDaniel College in Westminster is set to open a $6.6 million renovation of its Gill Center, which will house the college’s kinesiology program along with the school’s athletic teams. The college will hold a ribbon cutting for the new building ...

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A business started by a group of McDaniel College students won last week’s Carroll Biz Challenge, including nearly $13,000 in prizes. But the founders of bookSwap now have to change their name. McDaniel students Dajuan Price, Hunter Metcalf and Brandon ...

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The University of Maryland, College Park, and McDaniel College named commencement speakers Thursday. Mark Ciardi, a University of Maryland alumnus and member of the school’s board of trustees, will speak at the May 21 commencement at the Xfinity Center. Ciardi ...

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McDaniel College handed out $18,000 in prizes to student entrepreneurs competing in the school’s Innovation Challenge on Monday night. Freshman Justin Arter and junior Louis Schaab won the $10,000 top prize with their business, called Ride with Pride. Their company tries ...

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McDaniel College wants to take students to a place not often associated with liberal arts schools: the business world. This spring, the college is hosting its first “McDaniel Innovation Challenge” competition, in which students submit their ideas – for businesses, ...

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McDaniel College says it has received a $2 million gift in memory of a student who died of pneumonia in the early 1970s before starting his studies at the college. The college, which is in Westminster said in a statement ...

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A new scholarship program is designed to bring more low-income students to create a more diverse group of teachers in Howard County Public Schools by paying their tuition at McDaniel College. The Teachers for Tomorrow program, or T4T, sponsored by ...

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On Wednesday, McDaniel College will become the second Maryland college — after Johns Hopkins University — to sign the Real Food Challenge, a pledge to purchase 20 percent of food from local, sustainable, humane and fair-trade sources by 2020. McDaniel, ...

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