Asia Robinson and Brandon Scholze presented their S3RP research at the in Laurel, MD. Asia鈥檚 research investigated the speciation of Crocanthemum genus and the genetic diversity of its populations in New England region. Brandon鈥檚 research evaluated the diversity of Aronia germplasm accessions using novel genomic microsatellite markers. Brandon鈥檚 poster presentation won first place award in undergraduate category.
Congratulations Brandon and Asia!
The new fitness studio in Wooded Way is a newly renovated studio-style space with wood floors and mirrors, as well as group athletic equipment. It provides students with a fantastic space for group fitness classes, including Yogalates, High-Intesity Interval Training, Circuit Training, and more!
Please check the fitness schedule for available classes. Classes are free with your SU ID. Space is limited. Sign up and arrive 10-15 minutes early.
Presenting the new and improved Owings Mills North Greenzone! Students can now get 麻豆视频免费在线观看 Student Activities event tickets while going to and from class.
The desk will have someone to answer all questions and help students sign up for events Monday through Thursday between 9AM and 3PM. Tickets will still be available at Rockland Marketplace as well.
In addition, the university has several other new facilities coming this fall, including: a Reading Room and Coffee House in Garrison Hall South, and a new fitness studio in Wooded Way.
Senior Biochemistry major Tania Rodriguez Cintora is completing her Capstone internship at Dr. Angela M. Saldarriaga Pachalis’ Family Practice in Wilmington, DE.
Cintora trained as a Medical Assistant in Dr. Saldarriaga Pachalis’ office last summer. Returning this summer for her Capstone, she is now completing all the duties of a working Medical Assistant.
At Stevenson there are so many great opportunities for students to gain real-world experience and establish connections to future careers. For Cintora, this is working towards becoming as a physician!
announced that 麻豆视频免费在线观看 alumnus, Alphonso Mayo ’14, is one of 11 finalists for its Homecoming Hero Awards program.
Alphonso created Mentoring Mentors as a way to 鈥渇ill a serious gap in the black community – mentors that look like and have had similar experiences as those their mentees.” Mentoring Mentors has been giving Baltimore鈥檚 youth the values and skills needed to overcome academic, social, and emotional obstacles, and by encouraging those youth to continue to mentor, creates a cycle of supportive, strong relationships.
The finalists, nominated by the public and selected by the Homecoming Host Committee, will attend the inaugural Homecoming event Oct. 3-5 where Baltimore alumni will hear their stories and celebrate each finalist鈥檚 contribution to the city.
Five finalists, voted on by the public, will receive a $3,000 cash prize. Public voting is open now through August 18, 2018. Please vote for Alphonso .
麻豆视频免费在线观看 Business Communication senior and quarterback Dan Williams has been named as one of 169 candidates for the 2018 Allstate/American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team.
According to gomustangsports.com, “the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team has been one of the most esteemed honors in college football for more than 25 years. The student-athletes who are nominated for this award not only demonstrate a unique dedication to community service and desire to make a positive impact on the lives around them, but they also show tremendous perseverance as well as the ability to overcome personal struggles and come out victorious against all odds.”
To be considered by Allstate and the AFCA for a nomination, each player must be actively involved with a charitable organization or service group while maintaining a strong academic standing.
Williams has served as a two-year team captain for the Mustangs and is a weekly volunteer at Baltimore’s Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. He has also participated in the Mustangs’ annual spring reading program at Mechanicsville Elementary School in Sykesville, Md.. served as a volunteer with Carroll County Special Olympics, and worked as a football instructor for Special Olympics during the 2017 NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tenn.
On campus, Williams is a team representative to the Stevenson Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and is also the vice president of Stevenson’s chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).
On the field, Williams is a two-time Middle Atlantic Conference First Team selection and the 2016 MAC Offensive Player of the Year and a 2016 D3football.com All-Region selection. He is the program record holder in every passing category and enters his senior season with 55 touchdowns and 6,026 passing yards. (Thanks to gomustangsports.com for this information and photograph)
Rising Applied Mathematics juniors, Billy Heidel and Evan Williams, are participating in the Summer Science Scholars Research Program (S3RP) this summer working with math professor, Dr. Benjamin Wilson.
The work is a continuation of Dr. Wilson’s research in computational linguistics. The researchers are looking at the entropy (a measure of the complexity of a system) and related values of information sources that print different languages. In linguistics, entropy is a measure of the predictability of a language or, equivalently, the amount of information produced on average per symbol in a printout of a message in a given language.
The study involves investigating natural languages like English and Spanish, constructed languages like Klingon and Dothraki, and languages based on a corpora of texts by authors like Shakespeare, Twitter accounts, and United States presidents’ speeches. Billy and Evan will work all summer and present their research at Stevenson at the end of July as well as at the Fine School of the Sciences Fall Poster Sessions.
麻豆视频免费在线观看 senior quarterback and Business Communication major Dan Williams has already been named D3Football.com All-East Region, the MAC Offensive Player of the Year and was recognized as a First Team All-MAC selection both as a sophomore and junior.
Williams will now be among some of the nation’s best quarterbacks as he will serve as a college counselor at the Manning Passing Academy in Thibodaux, Louisiana, from June 21-24.
In its 23rd year, the Academy is an annual football camp organized by the Manning family (Archie, Peyton, Eli, and Cooper) to host more than 1,200 quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and tight ends to receive some of the best coaching in the country. Williams will be among other notable college quarterbacks from programs including the University of Alabama, University of Georgia, University of Missouri, Purdue University, University of Washington, University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee, to name a few; as they will act as counselors for the youth and high school players in attendance. An invitation to serve as a counselor is generally reserved for the best quarterbacks in the nation 鈥� mostly representatives from the NCAA Division I level.
Aside from coaching at the camp, college counselors also have the opportunity to participate in personalized training sessions both on and off the field with the Mannings themselves as well as some of the best quarterback coaches in the country.
“I’m honored to have the opportunity to represent 麻豆视频免费在线观看 at this year’s Manning Passing Academy. I would like to thank the Manning family for the chance to compete with other college players, and learn from many coaches,” said Williams. “I am truly humbled to be selected and I am very excited and eager to coach the athletes there as well learn some things during the camp. Lastly, thank you to my family, Coach [Ed] Hottle and Coach [Ryan] Larsen for believing in me.”
Williams enters his senior year as the Stevenson all-time leader in every passing category. During his career, he has passed for 6,026 yards and 55 touchdowns, and completed 60 percent of his passes.
Congratulations, Dan!
The Mission: I鈥檓 Home (MIH) organization is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by continuing to take Stevenson students鈥攁nd alumni鈥攖o help rehabilitate disaster sites, including New Orleans, New Jersey, Staten Island, and also to serve communities in Baltimore. These relief trips give students the opportunity to spend their Spring Break helping those in need.
Today, nearly 700 students have attended 25 service trips that have helped bring more than 50 families back into their homes, according to Morgan Somerville, Director of Student Engagement. 鈥淭hese trips have formed lasting bonds that have led to an increase in community engagement and volunteerism,” she says. 鈥淢any alumni continue to participate in Mission: I鈥檓 Home trips because they see it as an important way to serve their alma mater and positively influence the next generation of Mustangs.”
Since the group鈥檚 founding in March 2009, it has grown from one Spring Break trip to rebuild in New Orleans with 24 participants to four programs a year with more than 100 participants, Somerville says. 鈥淥ur strong relationship with the SBP, a national organization dedicated to shrinking the time between disaster and recovery, has allowed us to expand our reach to five communities devastated by natural disasters: New Orleans; Staten Island, N.Y.; Monmouth County, N.J.; Baton Rouge, La., and Houston. As a result of our students鈥� desire to give back to our local community, we created the Fall Serve program during the Fall Break where we partner with a number of Baltimore-based nonprofits. This March, Spring Serve was created in collaboration with the Center for Environmental Sustainability as an effort to volunteer with Baltimore-area nonprofits supporting the Chesapeake Bay.”
Participants from MIH trips report the experience as life-changing. A week of manual labor, cultural experiences, and reflections allows students to step outside of their comfort zones while learning the real impact they can have on the community. To date, five MIH alumni have gone on to serve with AmeriCorps, several work for nonprofits, and even more are actively involved with serving their communities through volunteer opportunities and serving on the boards of nonprofits.
Several alumni reflect fondly on their time with the organization. KJ Renfroe (business administration/minor in human services 鈥�17), a master鈥檚 candidate of the Healthcare Management program scheduled to graduate in 2019, currently works as a Project Coordinator in the office of the Chief Operating Officer at Johns Hopkins Healthcare.
鈥淚 participate on Mission: I’m Home trips as a graduate to continue to grow as a person and help others do the same. This trip is all about helping others and creating lifelong bonds. I’ve noticed that a lot of members are graduating and leaving to do great things all over the United States, which is amazing! And even though they are all over the U.S. working hard and changing the world, I know I will still have that special bond and that special connection with each and every one of them. As an alum, I want to make sure that the new members feel that same bond and connection. Mission: I’m Home is a family and coming on these trips every year gives me a chance to meet new members of our family, and show them what we’re about. I also come on these trips so I can continue give back to our community and so I can continue to understand what goes on to those around us. It is so easy to forget about the natural disasters that take place because we are stuck in our own reality. MIH trips give us a chance to understand the realities of those who’ve suffered from these disasters: seeing it on television and seeing it in person are two totally different things.
Aaron Milam (computer information systems, business technology management 鈥�18), who works at Berkshire Associates Inc., also continues to participate in MIH because of 鈥渢he profound impact and unique experience every year. You would think that after seven of the trips, I would have seen it all,” he adds. 鈥淏ut that’s not the case. Each year brings about new emotional understanding, lasting friendships, a better sense of self and, most importantly, the opportunity to truly make a positive change in the lives of others.
鈥淧articipation has enhanced my professional life by making it apparent to me what’s truly important in life. I now work in an environment where there’s a great deal of social responsibility and I can make a difference all year long. My personal life has been enhanced by meeting lifelong friends and reaffirming existing relationships.
Shalon Edwards (biology 鈥�10), is a Senior Research Analyst at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She calls her first Mission: I’m Home trip 鈥渁 self-healing mission”; Edwards was one of several displaced students who were attending Xavier University of Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. 鈥淭his trip was the first time I’d returned to NOLA. The week we spent did more work on my heart than on my body鈥攁nd the work was physically laboring鈥攁nd it allowed me to reconnect with my second home, some friends I hadn’t seen in years, and actually give back to a city that gave me so many warm memories.
鈥淪ince graduating, I’ve participated in three trips. I can鈥攁nd cannot鈥攂elieve it’s been 10 years since the first trip! As a founding member of MIH, my connection to Stevenson is strengthened from witnessing the increased support MIH receives from the university. The number of students recruited into this cause since its inception has dramatically increased as have the number of trips to assist in the recovery of several other locations in need. Knowing that SU cares about places that aren鈥檛 part of its immediate community reminds me that I chose the right place to complete my degree.”
Today, Somerville says that the program will continue to offer students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to participate in one of the four programs serving a variety of communities throughout the United States. 鈥淲e are in the planning stages of a reunion trip to New Orleans with details to be shared soon.”
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Congratulations to Tim Dwyer, Professor of Chemistry, and Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish, Adjunct Professor of Nursing, recipients of Stevenson鈥檚 2018 Rose Dawson Excellence in Teaching Award. Here they stand with their official portraits that will hang in the Lynn Duncan Center for Excellence in Teaching.
The honor is presented annually to recognize Stevenson faculty, both full-time and part-time, who exemplify the art of teaching as mentors and as scholars. The awards were announced May 22.
View more photos from the May 22 Faculty Recognition Brunch .
