Governor Martin O’Malley has appointed Katie Cano ’16, political science, as the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s (MHEC) student commissioner for the 2014-2015 school year. Cano will be the third UMBC student to hold this position in the past eight years. Cano is actively involved in many organizations at UMBC. She is a Sondheim Public Affairs Scholar and received a BreakingGround community program grant for a partnership between the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents-Baltimore (RICA-Baltimore) and UMBC’s Shriver Living Learning floor. She has served as president of her residence’s community action board, an orientation peer advisor, and an Introduction to …