Natalie Larsen, of Sykesville, a senior at Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, pursuing a bachelor's degree in biblical counseling, was accepted
Isabella Cascarelle, of Skyesville, was named to the fall 2018 honors list at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, Virginia. Students named to the honors list
I fear that these decisions will leave McDaniel forgotten as yet another institution that abandoned its soul in an attempt to join a bandwagon trend. I fear that McDaniel has willingly let itself become absorbed into the devaluation of humanities.
The upcoming days will be filled with music for Margaret Boudreaux, but will mark a change in direction from the course she has held steady for 30 years.
McDaniel College seniors Renie Tsomos, of Forest Hill, and Marissa Funke, of New York, recently won the audience choice award and $2,000 prize at the Westminster college's Innovation Challenge to develop their app Money Mind, aimed at helping young adults navigate the world of finance.
On Sunday, April 28, the McDaniel College Choir — led by Margaret Boudreaux, director of choral activities at the college and department chair — presents the concert, Of Wisdom and Folly, at 7 p.m. in Baker Memorial Chapel on the campus at 2 College Hill in Westminster.
Rachael Fox won the Innovation Challenge at McDaniel's grand prize of $10,000 with her company Fox Boots, which will focus on field work boots and waders sized for women.
Cheeny Celebrado-Royer a graduate of McDaniel and MICA, was named a 2019 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize finalist. Her work will be displayed alongside her fellow finalists at the Walters Art Museum.
MAGIC, the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, based in Westminster, hosted the 2019 Carroll County Hackathon, with 55 students participating. The
Mykhaylo Chumak, of Westminster, was named to the dean's list at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, for the fall 2018 semester. Dean's list
Cornel West, Harvard professor, recording artist and actor in "The Matrix" movie trilogy, is coming to Westminster Friday to deliver the biannual Ira G. Zepp, Jr., Memorial Lecture at McDaniel College.
McDaniel College football coach Mike Dailey is stepping down because of health reasons. Dailey spent three years as coach of the Green Terror, and compiled a 9-21 record.
Concerns about student involvement and the future of liberal arts at McDaniel College — following the decisions to sunset several majors and minors — were topics during an open town hall Wednesday night.
I do not understand why the German major and minor and all German courses are being totally eliminated when the college is keeping the minors in all the other affected programs (with the exception of Music).
Businesses are constantly being forced to evolve in order to keep with the times and demands of the customer. So too do institutes of higher learning, as is the case with McDaniel College in Westminster. These decisions are not often popular, even if they make financial sense long-term.
A liberal arts education provides experiences that serve to make a person whole, thoughtful and open-minded. By cutting these majors, McDaniel is not only closing doors, but minds as well.
Some McDaniel College students, faculty and alumni have criticized the decision to eliminate some programs and how it was made as being indicative of an attack on humanist education and excluding them from having real say in the process.
Emily Barker, of Sykesville; and Ethan Brown, of Taneytown, were among the McDaniel College students who performed in the College Band's Dec. 7 concert in WMC
The tour took place from Jan. 4-7 and took us first to Atlanta to The King Center,  the Kings’ crypt; King’s birth home; and the Historical Ebenezer Baptist Church. Next we traveled to Philadelphia, Mississippi and visited where three Civil Rights workers were killed were in 1964.
Taylor Bopp, of Westminster, was awarded a Study Abroad Grant worth $1,000 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective
Alyssa Rink, of Hampstead, community health major at Salisbury University, was one of a team of three undergraduate student researchers from the College of
Local Salisbury University students were among those who presented at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South's annual conference in New
The annual Boys & Girls Club of Westminster Christmas party was held at their new location for the first time after bring held at McDaniel College for may years.
The Holiday Light Show began on Nov. 22 and is open to enjoy on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 5 to 9:30 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 30. It is free and open to the public from 5 to 9:30 p.m.
Alex Ober, of Westminster, has received the alumni college service award from McDaniel College. Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the alumni
Alleck A. Resnick, a retired Baltimore real estate lawyer, philanthropist and longtime McDaniel College trustee, died Nov. 5 of undetermined causes at FutureCare Cherrywood in Reisterstown. He was 96.
On Sunday — Veterans Day, appropriately enough — McDaniel College announced a new Military Legacy Scholarship worth up to $100,000 over four years for all military veterans, active-duty military personnel and their children. This is a win for the college and a win for the students who qualify.
