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Solar benches are ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University’s latest green initiative, helping to bring more students outside. Four brand new solar benches can be seen across campus, and it was all thanks to a student who brought the idea up through the Green Fund. Director of Campus Sustainability Chris Homeister says the solar benches encourage students to spend more time outside. They’re fully solar powered, equipped with three-prong outlets, USB charging ports, and wireless charging stations.

¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University’s Student Government Association hosted its 18th annual “I Love ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp” community engagement event on Saturday, November 10. More than 400 students volunteered to help clean up the city and spread the love. Volunteers raked leaves at the ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp Zoo, picked up litter, made chalk drawings for students at Pemberton Elementary, and created no-sew blankets for area shelters. Student Government Association President Jahnaiya Sutherland said the annual event offers students an opportunity to give back to the community.

Since 2003, the Wicomico Creekwatchers has been monitoring the health of the local watershed across Wicomico and Somerset County. Dr. Jennifer Nyland, ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University associate professor of biological sciences, leads the lab analysis portion of Creekwatchers. The group tests for water clarity and temperature and air temperature with a field sheet. Her and 55 volunteers also measure nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, nitrate and phosphate. Once everything is tested, the samples are brought back to the lab on SU's campus.

For the third year, the Baltimore-based Daily Record and BridgeTower Media have announced SU President Carolyn Ringer Lepre as one of the members of its Higher Education Power List. Selected by the newspaper’s editorial team, with input from readers, the list celebrates the state’s most influential college and university presidents, policy makers and other senior administrators for their oversight of “some of the finest institutions of higher education in the nation,” according to the publication.

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced the awardees for the second round of the Equitech Growth Fund. A total of more than $4.3 million will be distributed across nine projects from across Maryland. Of these awards, more than $2.9 million will support three projects focusing on building Maryland’s infrastructure, while more than $1.3 million will support six entities uplifting workforce development efforts. Awardees include ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University - $249,000 (entrepreneur development)

¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University remains among the 40 most sustainable colleges and universities in the U.S., according to The Princeton Review. For the 16^th consecutive year, The Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has included SU in its Guide to Green Colleges, which highlights impressive environmental and sustainability programs at campuses throughout the U.S. and select institutions in Canada.

A record number of students and alumni from ¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University’s TRIO Student Support Services Program are studying abroad this semester, thanks to nationally competitive and local merit-based scholarships and fellowships. They include seniors Kay Funderburg, Mark Niederhofer, and Joshua Turner, as well as 2025 graduates Stephora Alberi and Andersen Herman. Supporting their journeys is Madjesca Limage, an international business and accounting major currently completing an internationally focused internship through the program.

¸»¶þ´úÊÓƵapp University is one of the top 400 higher education institutions in the nation for setting its graduates up for financial success. That’s the assessment of The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse. For the second consecutive year, the nation’s financial newspaper of record and the marketing research firm that calls itself “the voice of college students” have included SU in their joint ranking of the 584 “Best Colleges in the U.S." SU also placed highly in several sub-categories, incluiding Best Value, Social Mobility, Student Experience, and Best Salaries.