Thursday, March 29, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore hosts the 16th annual Mid-Atlantic HBCU Undergraduate and Graduate Research Day on Tuesday, April 10, from 8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Student Services Center on the UMES campus. Each year the event highlights poster presentations of the scholarly work…Read more Graduate Research Day, Showcases Scholarly Work
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson, the woman responsible for directing the most highly regarded dinner theatre productions on the Shore, has written an original stage play for this year’s show at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Home to one of the most popular dinner theatre spots in the…Read more UMES Presents Dinner Theatre
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – “I, Too, Sing America,” is the title of a choral festival that will be held at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Concert choirs from five different regional universities will perform. The Festival, which will feature guest conductor Carl W. Haywood, of Norfolk State University, will be…Read more UMES Hosts Choral Festival, “I, Too, Sing America”
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The USDA (MD/DE) Rural Development Office in cooperation with the Maryland Cooperative Extension’s Rural Development Center will conduct a workshop focused on grant programs in two areas important to small businesses and agriculture producers: USDA’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Improvements and the Value-Added Producer Grant programs. …Read more UMES Hosts a Workshop on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Grant and Value-Added Producer Grant Programs
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Author and cultural historian Anthony T. Browder will visit UMES to present a lecture on Ancient Africa Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Services Center Theater on campus. Browder has lectured extensively throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Africa, Mexico, Japan and Europe on topics pertaining…Read more Cultural Historian to Lecture on Ancient Africa
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD -The Richard A. Bernstein Visiting Professor at UMES, Dr. Kofi Awusabo-Asare, will present a talk on The Changing African Family: Issues and Challenges on Thursday, March 8, at 11 a.m. in Room 2040 Hazel Hall. Awusabo-Asare is an associate professor in geography at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana….Read more Bernstein Scholar Presents Lecture
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – A self-confessed “jazz junkie,” Bilal will join the UMES Jazz Ensemble for its Spring Concert Wednesday, March 7. Performers will take to the stage in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Bilal, whose full name is Bilal Oliver, has performed with such well-known neo-soul artists as ErykahBadu,…Read more Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert Spotlights Vocalist
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Dr. Thelma B. Thompson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), was recognized as one of the “Most Important Blacks in Technology for 2007” at the Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Conference in Baltimore recently. Thompson was cited along with 77 other prominent African-American…Read more UMES President Named One of the Most Important Blacks in Technology
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Maryland Cooperative Extension (MCE) is offering a workshop for owners or managers of one to 10 acres who want to make the most of their property and help others do the same. Whether or not you have forest on your land, this training will show how active stewardship can…Read more Stewardship Workshop is Scheduled for Landowners of One to 10 Acres
Monday, February 12, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Michael A. Nugent, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Department of Education was a guest of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at the HBCU Invitational Conference on Assessment at their headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey earlier this month. Twenty-five teacher education deans and faculty members from Historically-Black Colleges…Read more Nugent Represents UMES at ETS Conference
