The University of Maryland Eastern Shore welcomes a former Hawk back home as Earl Holland Jr. was named the new Director of Public Relations. He assumed the role on July 18. Holland, an Eastern Shore native and 2005 graduate of UMES, replaces longtime PR director Bill Robinson, who retired at the end of the recent…Read more UMES alum Holland named as new PR director
Joelle Odigie’s passion and enthusiasm for pharmaceutical science were ingrained in her since childhood as the daughter of two pharmacists. It also had a personal impact on the Baltimore native as she saw first-hand the importance of receiving proper medical treatment as a 13-year-old. “Originally, what led me to get into pharmaceutical science is that…Read more Pursuing a Passion
When Ariel Larsen made the decision to enroll at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the deciding factor for her was the sequential arts program. “(At) colleges, arts aren’t usually a big program,” the Westminster resident and incoming freshman said. “So the fact that art is such a big program here is really fun.” What…Read more ‘A Huge Family Atmosphere’
The city of Savannah, Ga. is hopeful it can stabilize a geographic piece of its cultural heritage by restoring the home of the late Calvin L. and Virginia J. Kiah, prominent Black educators who allowed their dwelling to double as “a museum for the masses.” Dr. Calvin Lycurgus Kiah was born in Princess Anne in…Read more Is this Depression-era painting Thomas Kiah?
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore held its spring 2022 commencement exercises today, awarding bachelor, master’s and doctorate degrees to 292 newly minted alumni. Princess Sarah A. Bentil of Laurel, Md. delivered the student commentary on behalf of the class of 2022. Bentil paid tribute to her mother, whom she said overcame a series of…Read more Spring commencement 2022
Editor’s note: The author is dean of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s School of Education, Social Sciences and the Arts who shared these thoughts with faculty colleagues in the wake of the May 14, 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. This is a week of joy and pain. Joy for the approximately 277 students…Read more Releasing the Stirrings of My Soul
It is perhaps fitting Crystal Jones Brinson crosses the stage to receive her college degree May 20 in the Hytche Athletic Center, the building named for the late University of Maryland Eastern Shore president who has long inspired her. “I made a promise to Dr. William Hytche that if I ever attended college, I’d attend…Read more ‘Promises to keep … people to inspire’
“UMES: Once Upon A Time” was a buffet of “unknown or little known” stories served up by campus history enthusiasts who drew on findings from an ongoing digitized transformation of the institution’s archives. For one viewer who tuned in to the April 29 presentation delivered virtually via the Internet, it was personal. During the noon-hour…Read more ‘This proved … I belong at UMES’
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore and four other historically black institutions announced a partnership today with Princeton University and the United Negro College Fund to promote research between HBCU faculty and counterparts at the Ivy League school. The projects will be funded by Princeton through its new Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation…Read more UMES joins research and innovation partnership
Leoneda Inge-Barry, a Durham, N.C. broadcast journalist, wrote an essay nearly four years ago for her employer’s website about the angst of sending her son off to college at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The essay, in hindsight, proved prescient. Teemer, she pointed out, was diagnosed as an infant with sickle cell disease, “an…Read more Staring down a pandemic
