Workshops Announced for 2023 Upper Shore Youth Environmental Action Summit

An exciting slate of workshops, activities, and excursions has been announced for the Upper Shore Youth Environmental Action Summit on Saturday, March 18, 2023, held from 9am–3:30pm. Hosted at Washington College in Chestertown, the Summit is a free event created to inspire and empower middle and high school students in taking local environmental action. Workshops, […]

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Justin Nash Wins $65,000 Sophie Kerr Prize

Justin Thomas Nash, a 22-year-old from Smyrna, Delaware, has won the 2021 Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation. He was among six finalists considered for the prize, worth $65,580 this year. Named after an Eastern Shore author who made her fortune in New York writing women’s fiction during the 1930s […]

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Chesapeake Heartland’s Digital Archive is Now Live!

Dear Friends and Chesapeake Heartland Partners, The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience announces the launch of the Chesapeake Heartland Digital Archive: https://archive.chesapeakeheartland.org A collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington College, Sumner Hall, Kent Cultural Alliance, and Kent County Public Library, Chesapeake Heartland aims to […]

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Adkins Arboretum Receives Funding to Pursue Indigenous Peoples Perspective Program

RIDGELY, MD – Adkins Arboretum has been awarded a Maryland Humanities grant to develop an Indigenous Peoples Perspective program in partnership with Washington College’s Eastern Shore Food Lab (ESFL). The program will employ digital resources in the forms of web profiles, videos and self-guided activities to explore the importance of 21 native plants to the […]

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Mary Sprague Wins $63,537 Sophie Kerr Prize

Mary Sprague, a 21-year-old English major from Ellicott City, Maryland, has won the 2020 Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation. She was among six finalists considered for the prize, worth $63,537 this year. Mary Sprague[/caption]Sprague, who served as Editor-in-Chief of the student literary magazine and a copy-editor for the student […]

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Six Washington College seniors were selected as finalists for the Sophie Kerr Prize in literature, worth $63,537.65.

The winner will be announced in a virtual ceremony this Friday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. CHESTERTOWN, MD – Six Washington College seniors were named finalists for the 53rd annual Sophie Kerr Prize, at $63,538 the nation’s largest literary award for college undergraduates. The finalists represent the liberal arts and sciences in a range of […]

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