Frostburg State University

The National Football League (NFL) draft came to an end earlier this evening and within minutes of its conclusion the San Francisco 49ers announced that they are signing Frostburg All-American defensive tackle Niles Scott to a free agent contract.

Frostburg senior sprinter Kayla Truesdel added yet another Capital Athletic Conference trophy to her collection on Friday when the league announced that she was voted as the Track Athlete of the Year for the fourth time.

Frostburg State softball seniors Sam Gatton, Allison Short and Brittney Platt each earned All-Capital Athletic Conference Second Team honors as announced by the league office, Tuesday.

FROSTBURG, Md. - Frostburg senior standout sprinter Kayla Truesdel has earned another award on Tuesday morning as she was selected to the Google Cloud Academic All-District II Women's Track/Cross Country Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Several local students were among the graduate and undergraduate students recognized at Frostburg State University's Honors Convocation in May.

Several local students were among the graduate and undergraduate students recognized at Frostburg State University's Honors Convocation in May.

Frostburg State University students were selected to present their written works at the annual English Colloquium. The papers, written by students in any major, are nominated by members of the faculty of FSU's Department of English and Foreign Languages.

On May 2, seven Frostburg State University students were inducted into the University's Phi Epsilon chapter of Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the official communication honor society of the National Communication Association, by the current chapter leadership. The new inductees are Tessa Brewer, Samantha Dabrowski, Morgan Johnson, Ciel LaBossiere-Little, Emily Morgan, Tasia Smith and Rosemary Wehberg.

Victoria Glass, who recently earned her Master of Education in Literacy Education degree at Frostburg State University, has been selected as the recipient of the Dr. R. Bowen Hardesty and R. Bowen Hardesty Jr. Award, which was presented during FSU's University Graduate and Departmental Honors Convocation.

Frostburg State University will celebrate student achievements of its spring 2018 graduating class with the 152nd Commencement on Thursday, May 24, during two ceremonies in the Cordts Physical Education Center Main Arena.

The Senior Exhibition for six Frostburg State University students, Matinicus Creek, Donovan Carter, Shelby Brothers, DeVonte Jackson, Alec Edwards and Madison McKenzie, will open Saturday, April 28, at 2 p.m. the Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery in FSU's Fine Arts Building. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

The Frostburg State University Chamber Singers and University Chorale will present their spring choral concert, "Global Sounds: A Mosaic of Song," on Friday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature works examining music from many different countries, including the United States, Germany, Inner Mongolia, Venezuela, Scotland and Italy.

Forest Bierman wants to be a difference maker and sees teaching as his start to be one. Bierman, a social science major with a political science concentration, sees himself in a classroom sharing his passion for civics. But in the big picture, he sees teaching as a stepping stone to go on and become active in policymaking and politics.

Astronaut Ricky Arnold isn't the only piece of Frostburg State that is rendezvousing with the International Space Station this year. A mission patch designed by FSU art and design major Donovan Carter will be on its way to space in June. Carter won the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission Design Competition with his Maryland-inspired patch. The patch represents the University System of Maryland in SSEP Mission 12.

Frostburg State University's Department of Music will present student Jessica Ruskin in her senior research lecture presentation, "Music Perception and Mental Illness," on Thursday, April 26, at 5:30 p.m. in room 139 of FSU's Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Frostburg State University's Department of Music will present famous operatic scenes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Bastien and Bastienna," Samuel Barber's "A Hand of Bridge," Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen," Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" and Georges Bizet's "Pearl Fishers" for its spring opera theatre concert. Performances will take place Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Frostburg State University sophomore Benjamin Forrest was chosen by Campus Compact to be honored as the 2018 Newman Civic Fellow, which acknowledges motivation and potential in public leadership. Forrest is one of the 268 students who were honored among all Campus Compact institutions.

The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

At the 151st commencement ceremonies at Frostburg State University in December, the following area residents were among the nearly 400 total candidates for degrees.

At the 151st commencement ceremonies at Frostburg State University in December, the following area residents were among the nearly 400 total candidates for degrees:

At the 151st commencement ceremonies at Frostburg State University in December, the following area residents were among the nearly 400 total candidates for degrees.

At the 151st commencement ceremonies at Frostburg State University in December, the following Baltimore area residents were among the nearly 400 total candidates for degrees.

The following students from the area have been named to the dean's list at Frostburg State University in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for the fall 2017 semester. To be eligible, a student must undertake a minimum of 12 credit hours and earn a cumulative semester grade point average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.

Frostburg State University health science graduate Logan Cheshire captured the winning image in the recent BioArt Scientific Image & Video Competition - a contest designed to celebrate the art of life sciences - with a striking electron microscope image he made in the course of his research on mealybugs.

The following students from Baltimore have been named to the dean's list at Frostburg State University in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for the fall 2017 semester. To be eligible, a student must undertake a minimum of 12 credit hours and earn a cumulative semester grade point average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.

Frostburg State University announces the following area students have received scholarships for study at the University.

Frostburg State University will celebrate student achievements of its fall 2017 graduating class with the 151st Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 19. The ceremony for the colleges of Business, Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences will take place in the Harold J. Cordts Physical Education Center's Main Arena at 2 p.m.

FSU doctoral student Billy J. Wrights recently participated in the Student Veterans of America's 2017 Leadership Institute held at the George Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. This highly selective program brought student veterans together for intensive on-site leadership training. Wrights was identified as one of the top 100 student veterans from across the country to attend this all-expense-paid leadership training experience.

Paul Churchyard has traveled all over the country this summer without leaving his office. That's because the 19-year-old Earth Science and Geography major worked on mapping trails for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's website www.traillink.com.

Jillian Steinert, 22, of Dundalk, Md., has seen how building trust can blossom into opportunity for children and teenagers. Steinert worked as a recreational therapy intern at St. Vincent's Villa in Timonium, where the Catholic Charities program provides therapy for children with behavioral and emotional needs.