UMES students pitch & execute a campus beautification project Friday, April 16, 2021 UMES student leaders, some wearing two hats as members of Greek social organizations, partnered with the university’s physical plant this week to tackle a landscaping project in the shadow of John T. Williams Hall. Visitors and employees who park adjacent to the…Read more Curb appeal
UMES alum and private-sector partners think they found one that works Tuesday, April 13, 2021 A partnership between UMES and a Dorchester County biotech company has produced promising results for a test to guide treatment options for newly diagnosed COVID19 patients. Pending emergency authorization by the federal government, the test shows potential in helping identify…Read more Can a test shape the right COVID treatment?
Monday, April 12, 2021 After a year’s hiatus triggered by the COVID19 pandemic, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore resumed holding a real-time spring honors convocation with a socially distanced, virtual ceremony earlier this month. Dr. Michael Lane, the Richard A. Henson Honors Program director who served as emcee, said the event celebrated “774 undergraduates…Read more 68th Annual Spring Honors Convocation ~ via Zoom
UMES’ social justice series speaker highlights the healing still needed Friday, April 9, 2021 Charles L. Chavis Jr. calls himself a “scholar of racial terror” and brought the perspective of a college “professor, historian and peacebuilder” to an installment of UMES’ year-long social justice speaker series. Chavis’ April 8 topic was the “Tulsa Massacre 100…Read more A scholar drawing attention to ‘racial terror’
Somerset County’s health dept. partnered with UMES for a COVID vaccination clinic Thursday, April 8, 2021 A steady stream of UMES students, faculty and staff took advantage of an on-campus COVID vaccine clinic today, a turnout that left organizers encouraged that headway is being made in the fight against the pandemic. President Heidi M. Anderson,…Read more One down. One to go.
U.S. poet laureate shares her unique perspective in social justice event Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Listening to Joy Harjo is like riding on the winds of history grabbing at pieces of a dream as they swirl around you. It is difficult to describe all of the aspects of the inspiration that drives her “word weaving.” …Read more ‘Poems are pockets that hold words …’
UMES faculty member was a pioneering student-athlete in his hometown Monday, April 5, 2021 Karl Von Binns Sr., a towering fixture on the faculty in UMES’ Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, passed away on Good Friday, April 2. He was 69. His sudden death unleashed an online response of heartfelt condolences and fond memories,…Read more Remembering Karl V. Binns Sr.
Gov. Larry Hogan signs into law a $577 million pledge to Maryland’s HBCUs Wednesday, March 24, 2021 In what President Heidi M. Anderson called “a defining moment in the history of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore,” Gov. Larry Hogan signed a law today to resolve a 15-year federal lawsuit that challenged the fundamental history…Read more ‘A defining moment in history’
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Dr. Robert C. Mock Jr., a senior University of Maryland Eastern Shore administrator, is among 50 leaders from across the state who will participate in a professional development program for 2021 known as Leadership Maryland. The group will take part in a series of “hands-on learning” activities “focused on the…Read more Mock picked for 2021 Leadership Maryland program
2000 alumna focuses on children’s health & wellness Thursday, March 18, 2021 Dr. Tabitha I. Jones-McKnight is a second-generation UMES alumna who today is a pediatrician in Ohio, where she also teaches the next generation of doctors about to enter a profession forever changed by the COVID19 pandemic. A working mother, she gravitated to study…Read more Physician, teacher, ‘Hawk for Life’
