The Hood College board of trustees appointed Tonya Thomas Finton ’78 as vice chair of the board following its June meeting. Finton will succeed Trustee Mark Friis, M.S. ’82 who previously held the position.
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 classes.
Last fall, Hood College became the first higher education institution in Maryland to offer a degree in sustainability studies.
The Rev. Margaret “Peggy” Muncie ’70 will be the speaker for Hood College’s Class of 2021 commencement ceremony this May. Dean Olivia White will remain the speaker for the college’s Class of 2020 ceremony.
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 Board of Associates Robert E. Delaplaine.
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.
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…
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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…
Following one student testing positive for COVID-19, Hood College instituted a shelter-in-place order Sunday night that will last at least 72 hours.
Hood professors receive Governor’s Emergency Education Relief grant
Hood College senior Caylee Winpigler was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Ausherman Family Foundation.
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Hood College received the gold award from the Healthiest Maryland Businesses Wellness at Work Awards Program during a recent online symposium.
The Williams Observatory at Hood College will soon become a museum and visitors center, thanks in part to a nearly $16,000 grant.
Eleven Hood College students were awarded scholarship money for an opioid PSA video they created for a Maryland state-wide challenge.
As the start of the fall semester for many educational institutions creeps closer, many colleges and universities are making final decisions o…
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