The University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism winter commencement ceremony is Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 in the The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay Theatre.

Please join us at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism on Dec. 11, when we will dedicate a memorial to the five people who lost their lives in an attack on the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28, 2018. The ceremony will be held outside room 3200 in Knight Hall.

In partnership with Maryland’s Association for Women in Sports Media chapter, The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism will host best-selling author Jane Leavy at 4 p.m. on Dec. 5 in Knight Hall’s Eaton Theater.

The Freedom Forum Institute and The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism are hosting “Sports Writers: Are We Also the Enemy?” at the Newseum.

In partnership with Maryland’s Associated Press Sports Editors chapter, The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism will host Sports Illustrated’s Robert Klemko on Monday, Nov. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Gaylord Library in Knight Hall.

Join us at Knight Hall on the University of Maryland campus to learn more about the Philip Merrill College of Journalism master’s program, including the new Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

The 16th annual Shirley Povich Symposium will take place Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Riggs Alumni Center on the University of Maryland campus. The topic is: “Race in Sports: The Challenge Continues.”

Join us at 4:45 p.m. for a free movie screening of the critically acclaimed “Spotlight,” which details The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation — led by Marty Baron, now executive editor of The Washington Post — that exposed abuse by Catholic clergy and decades of cover-up by religious and government officials.

Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett, now director of the Voice of America, will visit the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism Wednesday afternoon.

To enroll in a capstone course, Merrill College students must fill out the college’s common capstone application by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17.