Nationally and internationally recognized artists regularly exhibit their work in Hood’s Hodson Gallery—and often share their expertise through workshops and lectures.
Evil, Science and Gender, and Great Political Trials are just a few of the courses you can take in the honors program. Honors classes are
interdisciplinary, and most are team-taught by our outstanding faculty (so you can explore the concept of censorship in America—another honors offering— from the perspectives of, say, art history, sociology and English literature).
President Volpe’s house is on campus, and he regularly eats in the dining hall with students.
Getting to know your college president—or anything, really—is more fun over Blazer potato chips.
The computer science department (which shares space with the biology, chemistry, physics and math departments in the Hodson Science and Technology Center, Hood’s $23 million state-of-the-art science facility) recently hosted the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Conference.
Biology students and professors are researching an invasive, aggressive crayfish species—a vital study for Maryland’s waterways. Other collaborative, cutting-edge research happening at Hood includes studies on Huntington’s disease, horseshoe crabs and aviation biofuel.
Every residence hall on campus has a giant HD TV and a piano, and most have grills. On nice days, students roll the grills onto the lawns at the center of campus for impromptu barbecues. The pianos, though, tend to stay put.
Lacrosse, field hockey and soccer players compete on a new artificial turf field, and the new athletic and fitness center is home to Hood’s basketball and volleyball teams.
The rumors about students embattled in fierce, inter-residence hall competition over a giant pink spoon? They’re true. You and your hallmates will have a blast going up against other residence halls in the “Policies for Dollars” contest and a scavenger hunt. The victors win the coveted spoon and money to sponsor hall activities. 1