Lower Eastern Shore students will converge on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore this weekend for an old-fashioned spelldown. UMES will host the 2026 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 7, at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. The competition begins at 10 a.m. UMES has sponsored the event since…Read more UMES to host 2026 Maryland Eastern Shore Spelling Bee on March 7
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) recently received a national honor recognizing its efforts to collaborate with academic institutions and the communities they serve. UMES was named one of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2026 awardees of its Community Engagement (CE) Classification in January. The University is one of 239 institutions…Read more UMES earns Carnegie Foundation’s 2026 Community Engagement Classification
Dr. Marla Frederick opened the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 2026 Black History Month activities with an address on several topics focusing on the African American experience. Frederick, the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard Divinity School, spoke with the campus community during a Feb. 5 event held at the Student Services…Read more ‘The work of HBCUs has been to create generations of leaders’
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Walter Woods has been selected to participate in the Leadership Maryland program. Woods, UMES’ Coordinator for Outreach and Strategic Initiatives, is one of 53 members chosen for the organization’s 33rd class. “I am humbled and honored to be selected for this opportunity to elevate my leadership knowledge, skill, and…Read more Woods selected for Leadership Maryland
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore remembers civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who died Feb. 17 at the age of 84. Jackson, the founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, was one of the latter 20th century’s most well-known figures in the Civil Rights movement following the 1968…Read more UMES remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) will host the Smithsonian Institution’s SPARK! Places of Innovation traveling exhibit at the Frederick Douglass Library on the UMES campus. The interactive exhibit, which highlights innovation in rural communities, was brought to campus through a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Maryland Humanities’…Read more Smithsonian’s SPARK! Innovation exhibit on display at UMES’ Douglass Library
Dr. Marla Frederick, the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard Divinity School, kicks off Black History Month at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on Thursday, Feb. 5. Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will address the campus and local community during an afternoon presentation…Read more UMES to host Harvard Divinity Dean Dr. Marla Frederick on Feb. 5
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Veterinary Medicine (UMES SVM) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Reginald Miller as its new Associate Dean for Research and Innovation. Dr. Miller began his role December 2025 and will be responsible for leading the development of the School’s research enterprise, including research infrastructure planning,…Read more UMES School of Veterinary Medicine Names New Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
Two University of Maryland Eastern Shore staff members recently graduated from the Leadership Maryland program, which consists of more than 1,600 leaders from all industries throughout the state. UMES Chief of Staff and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Latoya Jenkins, and Dr. Madhumi Mitra, a full professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, completed the…Read more Jenkins, Mitra graduate from Leadership Maryland Program
For the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s winter class of 2025, various journeys converged to achieve the ultimate goal – to see years of work pay dividends. On Saturday, 230 students saw their late nights, intense study sessions, and tough dissertation defenses rewarded as their respective undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees were conferred during UMES’…Read more ‘The Future Doesn’t Come With a Syllabus’
