President Heidi M. Anderson was in a jubilant mood at the start of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s opening day ceremony welcoming new and returning members of the Hawk Family. Dancing down the aisle up to the stage to the Earth, Wind and Fire hit “September,” she and the UMES campus community had a lot to…Read more ‘All of you have those stories to tell’
This month the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) welcomes Tara A. Owens as Athletic Director and Anastasia Rodriguez as the Vice President for Administration and Finance. Both join President Heidi M. Anderson’s cabinet. Tara A. Owens, Athletic Director Athletic Director Owens joins the campus after four successful years at Central State University in Wilberforce,…Read more UMES to welcome two new administrators
A new curriculum that focuses on aviation maintenance training is on the horizon at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore through the help of grant funding from Wicomico County and the State of Maryland. The Federal Aviation Administration-certified course would include participants logging 1,900 hours of training through the university. The credits can be applied…Read more ‘A new paradigm’
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’
