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
A dean’s list student who served as Miss UMES during her senior year will deliver the student commentary at the university’s 2022 spring commencement exercises May 20. Princess Sarah Bentil, a marketing major from Laurel, Md., was selected by a panel of judges during auditions held the last week in April. Bentil said she applied…Read more Hawk Ambassador to deliver student commentary
Krystal Ibeawuchi, a dean’s list student and junior class president, will represent the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as an inaugural member of the new Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship program for the 2022-23 academic year. A biology major hoping to pursue a career in medicine, Ibeawuchi is among 13 undergraduates from Maryland, the District of Columbia…Read more Ibeawuchi named Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow
Distinguished alumna Starletta DuPois and international human rights crusader Samantha Power will be celebrated May 20 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s spring graduation exercises. Power, who serves as the U.S. Agency for International Development’s administrator, has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address. DuPois will receive an honorary degree. Starletta Earla Maria…Read more ’22 spring commencement features a ‘Star Power’ line-up
It was a “Joshua” kind of day at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 69th spring honors convocation – with a Wicomico County twist for good measure. Senior Joshua Todd of Fruitland received the Daniel J. Pinkett Award as the university’s top math student, while Joshua Goslee of Salisbury was named the top student in…Read more UMES honors convocation returns to in-person celebration
UMES’ Richard A. Henson Honors Program and the School of Pharmacy teamed up during spring break 2022 for an experiential learning trip to the Dominican Republican. Led by faculty members Dr. Yen Dang (pharmacy) and Dr. Michael Lane (Henson program director), eleven students spent the week of March 19-26 working with the National Environmental School…Read more UMES students spent spring break 2022 working …
Two months before the rapid-spreading COVID-19 virus was declared a global pandemic, a Princess Anne consignment shop added a charcoal drawing of a local 18th-century home to its eclectic inventory. Somerset Choice manager Sharon Upton recognized the work of art might have special meaning to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore – and alerted the…Read more Rare charcoal drawing finds a home at UMES
The PGA of America announced today member Billy Dillon, director of the PGA golf management program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the UMES men’s and women’s head golf coach, has earned PGA Master Professional status — the highest educational designation a member can obtain. Dillon, a member of the Middle Atlantic PGA…Read more Dillon earns PGA Master Professional designation
UMES President Heidi M. Anderson will be formally recognized May 9 by The Daily Record in Baltimore as one of the newspaper’s 2022 Top 100 Women of Maryland. Anderson joins more than 1,700 women – including two former UMES presidents – who have been named honorees since the publication launched the recognition program in 1996….Read more Anderson named one of Maryland’s top 100 women
Dr. Rondall E. Allen has been picked by President Heidi M. Anderson to be the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s next chief academic policymaker. Allen will move into the role of provost and vice president for academic affairs this summer when Dr. Nancy Niemi leaves the post to become president of Framingham (Mass.) State University….Read more Allen named UMES’ chief academic policymaker
