University awards 272 degrees on Friday the 13th Friday, December 13, 2019 Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th – was nowhere to be found today inside the William P. Hytche Athletic Center, the venue for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 23rd winter commencement exercises. UMES awarded degrees in the semi-annual rite of passage to 272 people,…Read more UMES superstition-free zone on commencement day
First UMES president to complete the civic engagement program Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Leadership Maryland announced Tuesday that Dr. Heidi M. Anderson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, has completed the professional development program dedicated to building a better Maryland by harnessing the strength of its local business and community leaders. Anderson, the…Read more Anderson earns Leadership Maryland credential
Chicago native to deliver student commentary at 23rd winter commencement Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Gbemisola Okesanjo mastered time management and overcame adolescent insecurities to find her voice as a dean’s list student at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The results will be on display when she steps to the lectern Dec. 13 to deliver…Read more UMES helped dean’s list student find her voice
Monday, November 11, 2019 Veterans’ Day 2019 was a red-letter day for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Actually, “Red Tail” day is more accurate. Two charter members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, including an Eastern Shore native, visited campus to share wisdom and insights from their experiences as patriot-pioneers in the mid-20th century when blacks…Read more Tuskegee Airmen celebrate Veterans’ Day at UMES
Thursday, November 7, 2019 A Dominican Republic native who uses her platform as a Maryland lawmaker to be a voice for disenfranchised African-Americans brought her impassioned message of justice and reconciliation to UMES Thursday. State Del. Joselina Pena-Melnyk delivered a powerful midday lecture that was part pep-talk and challenged her Fitzgerald Center for the Performing…Read more The energy behind MD’s lynching reconciliation panel
UMES senior earns full Ivy League graduate school scholarship Friday, November 1, 2019 Getting accepted to an Ivy League school is a dream come true for most college students; being pursued by one is difficult to imagine. But that’s the position Ayobami Ogunmolasuyi, a UMES senior who was born in Nigeria, was fortunate to find…Read more UMES senior earns full Ivy League graduate school scholarship
Friday, October 18, 2019 I was blessed this past summer with the amazing opportunity to have an internship of a lifetime. Through the Louis Carr Internship Foundation, I was given the chance to live in Chicago and work for Flowers Communications Group, a multicultural public relations firm. This was my first internship experience, so I…Read more Summer of a Lifetime Yields Media Experience in the Windy City
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced today it is implementing a “test-optional” admissions policy for applicants whose high school transcripts show they have strong academic credentials. UMES will “conduct a one-year pilot study using standardized tests as an optional criterion for admissionfor first-year students whose overall high school minimum grade point averages…Read more UMES announces new testing admissions’ policy
Event supports the Silver Star Scholarship fund Thursday, October 3, 2019 George Owings, Maryland’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Anthony S. Sarbanes, a Salisbury native who served three decades in the U.S. Army, are the featured speakers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 2019 Veterans’ Day banquet. The Friday, Nov. 8, event gets underway…Read more UMES, Salisbury Chamber salute veterans Nov. 8
National education policy advocate visits UMES, Somerset public schools Wednesday, October 2, 2019 John B. King Jr., who served as the Obama administration’s second secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, told everyone he met Oct. 1 during a whirlwind tour of Somerset County that schools saved – and shaped – his life. The president /…Read more ‘School saved my life’
