Hood College has announced an agreement with Gettysburg and McDaniel colleges that will allow students to fast-track a master’s degree in environmental studies.
Standing atop the steps of Hood College's Coblentz Hall, student Naba Fawzi recited a poem in Arabic as dozens of flags whipped around her in the blustery autumn wind.
Prominent Frederick County businessman and philanthropist George B. Delaplaine Jr. has tendered another major monetary gift to Hood College, making the most generous living donor in the school’s history, according to Hood officials.
Hood College officials on Wednesday afternoon formally dedicated the campus’ newest dorm, which is fully occupied this academic year and hosting 201 students.
Hood College and the Frederick Chamber of Commerce have struck a partnership that will offer the employees of chamber members tuition discounts for themselves, their spouses and their dependent children.
Lightning is officially to blame for the fire that broke out at the oldest building on Hood College's campus last week, according to the fire department.
Dozens of firefighters descended upon the Hood College campus in the early hours of Thursday morning when the school’s oldest building caught fire.
Standing atop the steps of Hood College's Coblentz Hall, student Naba Fawzi recited a poem in Arabic as dozens of flags whipped around her in …
Prominent Frederick County businessman and philanthropist George B. Delaplaine Jr. has tendered another major monetary gift to Hood College, m…
Hood College officials on Wednesday afternoon formally dedicated the campus’ newest dorm, which is fully occupied this academic year and hosti…
Hood College and the Frederick Chamber of Commerce have struck a partnership that will offer the employees of chamber members tuition discount…
Lightning is officially to blame for the fire that broke out at the oldest building on Hood College's campus last week, according to the fire …
Dozens of firefighters descended upon the Hood College campus in the early hours of Thursday morning when the school’s oldest building caught fire.
Under a cloudy — and occasionally rainy — sky Sunday evening, Hood College welcomed its largest-ever incoming class to campus.
The Hood College board of trustees appointed Tonya Thomas Finton ’78 as vice chair of the board following its June meeting. Finton will succee…
Hood College in Frederick has named Tammi Simpson its first vice president for community and inclusivity.
There were not one but two undergraduate commencement ceremonies at Hood College on Saturday, as the school recognized both its 2020 and 2021 …
Last fall, Hood College became the first higher education institution in Maryland to offer a degree in sustainability studies.
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The Rev. Margaret “Peggy” Muncie ’70 will be the speaker for Hood College’s Class of 2021 commencement ceremony this May. Dean Olivia White wi…
Hood College officials announced Wednesday the school plans to return to near-normal operations for the fall semester.
The Robert E. and Ruth M. Delaplaine Scholarship was first established in 1955 through a bequest from a former member of the Hood College Boar…
Middletown Valley Bank and Hood College celebrated the Bank’s unrestricted gift to the college’s Forging the Future campaign with a ceremonial…
Two endowed scholarships established by Hood Alumna, Board of Associates member in memory of parents
The Audrey Field Parrott Endowment for the Language Arts and the Benjamine Cawley Parrott Endowment for the Sciences have been established by …
Three Hood College faculty members were promoted and/or approved for tenure during the March Board of Trustees meeting.
Hood College plans to partner with a pharmaceutical company to train employees for a new facility in Urbana.
The ribbon-cutting and opening ceremony at Hood College’s renovated, $7.2 million Beneficial-Hodson Library and Learning Commons Wednesday was…
Hood College received $25,000 from the Delaplaine Foundation to assist in renovating the third floor of Rosenstock Hall into the Delaplaine Fo…
Hood College received $3.4 million from the Hodson Trust to support student scholarships and the renovation of the college's library and learn…
The James N. Khoury Memorial Prize in English was established in 2020 by Michael and Pauline Khoury in memory of their son James Khoury, ’15, …
A fund for future teachers has been established at Hood College in memory of Margaret Motter.
Ron Wiafe, Ed.D., was recently appointed Hood College’s new dean of students, beginning January 2021.
While many major universities and colleges across the country had to revert back to online learning mid-semester due to outbreaks of COVID-19 …
Hood College’s Dean of the Graduate School, April Boulton, Ph.D., was accepted to be a part of the Council of Graduate School’s workshop progr…
U.S. News & World Report ranked Hood College in four major lists in the north region: No. 17 in Best Value, No. 28 in Best Undergraduate T…
Hood College Assistant Professor of Sociology Simone Kolysh was awarded a Purdue University Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excell…
Hood College plans to launch a new Bachelor of Arts degree in sustainability studies, according to a recent press release.
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Hood College has received funding to collaborate on a research project focusing on lobster larvae in Maine.
Six senior nursing students at Hood College are putting their education to work for their own school.
Hood College has resumed operations after a student tested positive for COVID-19 late last week, which sent the entire campus into a shelter-i…
Elizabeth Atwood, Ph.D., associate professor of journalism at Hood College, wrote “The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison, America’s First Fema…
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