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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’

Chef Jose Andres visits UMES’ Marriott Teaching Kitchen at Shady Grove Thursday, October 31, 2019 It’s not every day a chef with a rock star résumé stops by your kitchen to talk shop and samples your mother’s recipe for empanadas.  But that’s what Mario A. Sep and his classmates experienced when World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés…Read more ‘I am just a cook’

Thursday, September 12, 2019 The 45 graduates who were celebrated during Thursday’s University of Maryland Eastern Shore summer commencement included an athlete who found UMES while competing for an in-state rival, a couple who met in class and plan to marry, and an entrepreneurial undergraduate with a big heart.   The 2019 edition of the university’s…Read more Founders’ Week 2019 ~ Summer Commencement

Heidi M. Anderson inaugurated as UMES’ 16th leader Friday, September 13, 2019 Dr. Heidi M. Anderson was formally inaugurated Friday as the 16th leader of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on the 133rd anniversary of the institution’s founding.  When Anderson took office on Sept 1, 2018, she became the fourth woman in the 21st…Read more ‘We will help students fulfill their dreams’

Rev. W. Tycer Nelson’s service spanned nearly a quarter century Monday, September 9, 2019 The Rev. William Tycer Nelson has a distinctive place in the history of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where he served as a sociology professor and the college chaplain for 23 years during the Maryland State College era beginning in 1948. Born…Read more Md. State College chaplain & professor remembered as vivid orator

Sounding rocket display pays tribute to pioneering educator Abraham Spinak UMES is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its aviation science program in 2019, and the contributions of the man who got it off the ground.  Abraham Spinak was remembered Sunday during a ceremony in the university’s Engineering and Aviation Science Complex, where a decommissioned sounding rocket on loan…Read more Celebrating 3 decades of aviation science instruction

Somerset County high school students are the beneficiaries Thursday, August 29, 2019 Adel Karara and Anjan Nan – professors in UMES’ School of Pharmacy – have secured a $1.3 million grant funded by the Science Education Partnership Award program administered by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.  The award will be used…Read more UMES receives $1.3 million NIH science education grant

Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson to serve on reconciliation commission Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson Jr. (dean, School of Education, Social Sciences & The Arts) will represent UMES on the newly formed Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  The 2019 Maryland legislature created the panel to investigate the state’s history of vigilante acts between…Read more UMES representative to lynching study panel named