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A Salisbury University student raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore has won one of the United States’ most prominent literary prizes. Emma DePanise, who grew up in Queenstown, MD, is winner of the 2018 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.

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With over 2,700 recorded trees, Salisbury University is comprised of some of the most horticulturally diverse grounds in its region. SU recently became the first in Maryland to receive Level III accreditation from the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Register of Arboreta.

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The University System of Maryland Board of Regents has appointed Dr. Charles Wight president of Salisbury University, beginning July 1, 2018. Wight will succeed Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach, who announced last fall her plans to step down from the position after 18 years.

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Dr. Wallace Southerland III recently was appointed associate vice president of student affairs at Salisbury University.

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Salisbury University’s award-winning Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons (GAC) is a little … uncommon. And that’s a good thing. Library Journal recently highlighted the facility among three “Uncommon Common Spaces” in its annual “Year in Architecture” feature.

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A Salisbury University program to help create jobs throughout the mid-Atlantic will continue another five years, thanks to a new $1 million gift from the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation of Baltimore.

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The Richard A. Henson Foundation, Inc. has reaffirmed its commitment to Salisbury University, announcing a $2.5 million gift for SU’s Henson School of Science and Technology. This donation marks the 30th anniversary of the school’s initial endowment.

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Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach, the president of Salisbury University, today announced her decision to step down effective June 30, 2018. She is the University System of Maryland’s longest-serving female president and is the second longest-tenured president in SU history.

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This summer, many of Alison Banks’ classmates caught some beachside rays. The Salisbury University senior preferred cloudy days. She attended the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Colorado State University, chasing tornadoes while pursuing her interest in atmospheric sciences.

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A dedication concert for a large traditional carillon is rare. According to Rick Watson of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, only two such instruments have been installed since 2005. That changes on September 6, with the dedication of Salisbury University’s new Brown and Church Carillon.

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Georgia Fried is into roller derby, the contact sport on roller skates, so she knows all about how things can get bumped. Such was the case when she made her college decision.

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Salisbury University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach announced a $5.5 million gift from Dave and Patsy Rommel to benefit a new Center for Entrepreneurship in downtown Salisbury and support other future activities of the campus and the Perdue School of Business.

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Salisbury University was honored with the 2017 Exemplary Professional Development School Achievement Award from the National Association of Professional Development Schools. The award applauds outstanding school-university partnerships that shape current and future educators.

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It's a patriotic story: a pair of American bald eagles nesting near the U.S. Capitol. Salisbury University teacher education professor Teena Ruark Gorrow and Craig A. Koppie of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tell the true tale in their third book: Mr. President and The First Lady: The DC Eagle Cam Project.

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Salisbury University’s Guerrieri Academic Commons has earned near-unanimous praise from students, faculty, staff and the community. It turns out the Maryland chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is a fan, too. The organization recently named the building as the winner of its 2016 Wintergreen Award for Excellence in Green Building in Education.

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Dr. Ellen Schaefer-Salins of Salisbury University encouraged Dr. Tom Roa of the University of Waikato, New Zealand, to translate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' into the indigenous Maori language. Today, some 300 Maori children are able to read the book in their native language.

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Dr. Ryan Taylor of Salisbury University’s Biological Sciences Department explored with a team from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama how “Bats Perceptually Weight Prey Cues Across Sensory Systems When Hunting in Noise.”

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Dr. Mary DiBartolo of Salisbury University’s Nursing Department is helping to educate and prepare others about the crisis facing the nation’s health care system related to the care of older adults.

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For Salisbury University business management and information systems major Darrin Reedy, however, this summer was a time to make a difference in the lives of people he had never met in a country where he never dreamed he would travel. The junior spent two and a half weeks teaching deaf children and assisting residents in the small village of Lévêque, Haiti.

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Salisbury University students Amanda Jackson and Kobi Azoulay traveled to the Democratic National Convention — and had vastly different experiences. Jackson was elected to be a delegate. Azoulay protested with Democracy Spring. Both returned to campus this fall with the same message: Get involved.

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Featuring a new home for SU's library, Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, and academic centers, as well as a 400-seat assembly hall, and faculty and graduate student space, the 221,000-square-foot Guerrieri Academic Commons is expected to become the campus' academic hub.

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Salisbury University’s professors “love what they do and prepare [students] for the real world. … Going to class is a joy.”

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For more than 30 years, incoming first-year students at Salisbury University have engaged in summer outdoor orientation programs, from canoeing in Canada and hiking in Maine, to biking on the Eastern Shore.

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What if video games had no score? No set goal? No adversary (or “boss,” in gamer terms) to defeat? Such games exist, and Dr. Timothy Stock of Salisbury University’s Philosophy Department is bringing them to the forefront in a new experimental course taught through SU’s Bellavance Honors Program.

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Salisbury University’s impact on the Eastern Shore economy is approaching half a billion dollars annually and supports almost 3,300 local jobs, according to a recently released economic impact study.

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Salisbury University is one of the top 50 colleges in the U.S. offering “outstanding opportunities to Hispanic students” according to The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.

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Andrew Scahill’s new book, released by Palgrave MacMillan, appropriately enough, in October, is titled “The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema,” and explores the dark underside of this genre. Its subtitle, “Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship,” is a tipoff to the provocative direction that his research takes.

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Developers Palmer Gillis and Tony Gilkerson have announced the donation of one of West Main Street's signature structures, the Plaza Gallery Building and Annex, to the Salisbury University Foundation, Inc. The gift is valued at some $4.4 million.

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Though many academic disciplines have studied the Twelve Step program of recovery, philosophers haven’t yet paid much attention. That may be changing. A recent collection of essays, Sobering Wisdom, co-edited by Salisbury University's Dr. Jerome Miller, offers a unique exploration of the program’s spirituality from a philosophical standpoint.