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
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is partnering with the Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) to design leadership programs specifically for women to help them become successful entrepreneurs. TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, said the programs “are designed to build an alliance of diverse founders and CEOs” to nurture “entrepreneurial innovation.” Maryland’s four…Read more UMES joins effort to help minority businesswomen
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is in line to receive $850,000 from the latest federal omnibus funding legislation Congress approved earlier this month. The money will underwrite a new initiative in UMES’ School of Graduate Studies and Research as well as an ongoing project to convert records, photos and other important documents in the…Read more New federal budget funds two UMES projects
Republic Airways, an Indianapolis-based regional passenger airline, made a St. Patrick’s Day donation of $20,000 to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s aviation science program. The gift will be used to provide scholarships for students, underwrite their travel and participation in professional aviation events, and support advanced faculty and flight instructor training. “Our goal…Read more Republic is UMES’ latest corporate aviation partner
By Clerkson Ngolle As a young Black boy who came to the United States from Cameroon at age 11, everything I saw was new. Never would I have thought I would come to America, a place where I could only see on TV back home. It wasn’t an easy thing to do for my family….Read more A New Place. A New World.
Dr. Miriam C. Purnell, a UMES School of Pharmacy professor, is among 17 University System of Maryland peers to be recognized by the Board of Regents as a 2022 faculty award winner. The awards are the highest honor presented to exemplary faculty members by the governing board. They honor excellence in: teaching; mentoring; public service;…Read more UMES professor is an award-winning mentor
The first word Jeffrey Hsia was challenged to spell at the 2022 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee was ‘lucky.’ It proved a harbinger of good things to come. Jeffrey, an eighth grader at Bennett Middle School in Salisbury, won the competition and earned an automatic invitation to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee…Read more ‘Luck is the residue of hard work …’
Another high-profile golf industry partner has stepped forward to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s hospitality and tourism management program. Troon, a leading international golf course and resort management company, announced a Black History Month initiative to help underrepresented hospitality and professional golf management majors defray college expenses. The Troon Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…Read more Troon makes the day for the maroon & gray
George E. Miles, a proud 1960 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, understood the value of higher education. Now, his legacy will live on through students on the lower Eastern Shore, thanks to recent gifts from his estate to local colleges and universities, including approximately $3.3 million each to the University of…Read more Late NASA engineer bequeaths $3.3 million to UMES
