Class of 2021’s rite of passage guided by pandemic protocols Friday, May 14, 2021 Graduation exercises returned to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s William P. Hytche Athletic Center today after a year’s hiatus. The university awarded 284 degrees in a “modified, in-person” ceremony with the customary pomp and circumstance before a smaller, more intimate crowd of…Read more A small step back toward normal
Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford wraps up UMES’ ’20-21 social justice series Friday, May 7, 2021 Boyd K. Rutherford challenged a UMES audience to be pro-active in shaping the future of the nation’s democracy. His remarks were delivered as part of the university’s social justice symposium. “We need more people to be civically engaged,” Maryland’s lieutenant…Read more Democracy demands civic engagement
Two prominent Maryland civic leaders will help honor the class of 2021 Tuesday, May 4, 2021 The Maryland legislature’s speaker pro tem and an Obama administration cabinet member will be the headline guests Friday, May 14, at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s spring 2021 graduation exercises. The commencement will be a modified, in-person event…Read more Modified, in-person commencement set for May 14
Nylah McClain is the first UMES student to win a Boren Fellowship Monday, May 3, 2021 Nylah McClain was captivated as a child by Japanese comic books and graphic novels — manga — as well as anime, the term used to describe a unique style of animation. McClain had no way of knowing at age seven it would…Read more 日本へ行く
The university provided invited guests a sneak peek at its new classroom building Friday, April 30, 2021 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore marked the half-way point of construction on its newest classroom building today with “Hard Hat Day,” an event that substituted for a groundbreaking ceremony cancelled a year ago by the onset of…Read more ‘Hard Hat Day’ a hit with UMES supporters
By Langston O. Frazier With the world of sports ever more present in our day-to-day lives politically – from the Black Lives Matter movement to advocating for voting rights – “Is this what we would call a ‘revolt’”? That’s the question Dr. Terry Anne Scott, based her virtual guest lecture: “Revolt of the Black Athlete:…Read more Revolt of the Black Athlete: Then and Now
A trio of undergraduates get an up-close look at UMES’ history Three undergraduates — two who are May 2021 graduation candidates — took a crash course this spring in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s colorful history and were paid for the privilege of doing so. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent…Read more A journey back in time
Alumnus, athlete, ambassador at-large Monday, April 26, 2021 Jesse T. Williams Sr., the personification of the school-spirit slogan “Hawk Pride” that bonds current and future alumni to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, died Sunday, April 25. He was 81. A 1962 graduate of then-Maryland State College, Williams had a successful career in corporate America…Read more Remembering Jesse T. Williams Sr.
Friday, April 23, 2021 By Jaylah Easter There comes a time when we, as moral characters with ever-evolving means of language through which to communicate, must examine our definition and implementation of such language. It is a time when the paradigm of society shifts and, so, the ways in which we communicate and express ourselves…Read more The Time for Change is Upon Us
Nylah McClain will spend the 2021-22 academic year in Japan studying the language Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Nylah O. McClain, a first-year student in UMES’ marine-estuarine-environmental sciences graduate program, will spend a year in Japan starting this fall representing her alma mater as the university’s first Boren Award fellow. McClain, who in May 2020 completed…Read more UMES alumna named Boren Award fellow
