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
On Christmas Eve, Tegwa Fadl Alla sent an e-mail to Salisbury TV station WBOC, which annually coordinates the local Jefferson Award program that recognizes the community’s unheralded altruists. The Arabic teacher nominated fellow educator Muna Elobaid, drawing attention to Elobaid’s work in assisting Sudanese immigrants’ assimilation into life in America. “As a migrant community,” Fadl…Read more UMES technology trainer is Jefferson Award winner
The 2022 spring semester will be Dr. Derry Stufft’s swansong as founding director of UMES’ doctoral program in education leadership. Stufft, who turned 73 this past December, is retiring from full-time work after a 52-year career in education spanning the spectrum from kindergarten to graduate school. He will continue as a dissertation adviser to current…Read more A half-century of ‘paying it forward’
UMES honors students in Dr. Amy Hagenrater-Gooding’s freshman English course are writing essays inspired by a year-long, university-wide reading initiative using Ross Gay’s Book of Delights and focusing on delights of their own. I walked outside one day this past summer to a sky that was baby blue painted with wispy clouds. There was a…Read more ‘Everybody ~ have you heard’
Jamahl Strachan went to Washington in the summer of 2008 to work as an intern on Capitol Hill, where as a 20-year-old rising senior at UMES he landed a coveted assignment in the office of the junior senator from Illinois. That fall, the latter became the first Black man elected President of the United States….Read more Forward. Upward. Onward. Together.
Two University of Maryland Eastern Shore history professors are assisting Delaware State University colleagues in crafting recommendations to expand how U.S. history is taught in “First State” public schools. Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson Jr., dean of UMES’ School of Education, Social Sciences and the Arts, and Dr. Arlisha R. Norwood are among 10 educators working…Read more Revisiting how history is taught
