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Alaska Airlines and its regional carrier Horizon Air announced a ground-breaking initiative Monday to offer financial aid to University of Maryland Eastern Shore undergraduates who aspire to be commercial airline pilots. The Seattle/Tacoma-based companies are launching a program called “True North” that will help top UMES aviation science students afford the considerable cost of completing…Read more Alaska Air Group brings True North program to UMES

The right to vote re-emerged in 2021 as a topic of public discourse and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has weighed in with an artistic flourish. The first floor lobby of Hazel Hall is now the home of social justice message art that was part of a presidential election year exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass…Read more ‘Our Vote Counts’

Jessica Collins, a University of Maryland Eastern Shore student pursuing a Master of Science degree in rehabilitation counseling, has been named a Behavioral Health Ambassador by the HBCU Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health. The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds the center housed at Clark Atlanta University.  Collins will be among…Read more UMES student named Behavioral Health Ambassador

David Ogden Stiers, best known as Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III to fans of the critically acclaimed TV show M*A*S*H, bequeathed $50,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to establish a student scholarship fund. Stiers, who died March 3, 2018, was awarded an honorary degree at the university’s spring commencement in May 2012.  His…Read more Thank you, Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III

Installation of pipeline that will enable the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus to switch to natural gas as its primary source of energy is heading into the homestretch. Since late summer, contractors have meticulously fused together dozens of 40-foot long sections of 6-inch yellow-striped black pipe, which has snaked its way along the western…Read more Eco-friendly energy source is close to reality

No one was prepared for the havoc COVID-19 wreaked in the months after public health officials declared a pandemic and civic leaders directed everyday life be brought to a standstill.  UMES senior Dustin Edelman, however, was not flustered by the sweeping lockdown that closed schools and government offices, emptied streets, canceled sporting events, and made…Read more Navy experience helped veteran find a career path

The UMES women’s golf team traveled to Springfield, N.J. Columbus Day weekend — not to compete — but to get a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of one of America’s best-known and historic golf courses.  The student-athletes accepted an invitation to visit Baltusrol Golf Club, which has played host to 17 “major” golf championship…Read more Baltusrol rolls out the red carpet ‘fore’ UMES golfers

After a year’s hiatus yielding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore are bringing back their “Salute to Our Veterans” gala.  The Thursday, Nov. 11, event pays tribute to local military veterans and gets underway at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception at the Richard…Read more UMES, Salisbury Chamber salute veterans Nov. 11

UMES’ English and Modern Languages department has adopted a “common reader” project for the 2021-22 academic year.  Ross Gay’s “The Book of Delights” inspired faculty member Carmen Parks to write this piece, which she has shared with her students who also are reading Gay’s book as part of the class syllabus.  Decades ago, on the way to…Read more ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’

Samata Bhetwal traveled 7,700 miles to make her dream of pursuing a degree at an American college a reality.  Home for the first-year graduate student in food science at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal in south Asia.  “I have always wanted to have a graduate degree from a…Read more ‘It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves’