UMES awards 426 degrees to the Class of 2019 Friday, May 24, 2019 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore conferred 426 degrees at its spring 2019 graduation exercises May 24, a historically significant anniversary for the institution. Sixty years ago to the day, the commencement speaker for the class of 1959 was the late Rev….Read more ‘Pay forward the support you received here’
1959 alumni reflect on their encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, May 23, 2019 Charles Laws was a senior at Maryland State College in September 1958 when “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” by the minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama’s capital city was published. Laws read the book because its 29-year-old author, the…Read more ‘He had something in him – some kind of spirit’
Monday, May 20, 2019 @PlasticBottru’s 5,900+ Instagram followers will be pleased to know the talent behind the online comic strip, “Oh, My Intern,” graduates from college this spring. So will the family of Martha Opiyo, who left Kenya four years ago to pursue a college education in America. Opiyo channeled an affinity for drawing — nurtured…Read more A Talent for Telling Stories Through Art
Nakia Coit’s love for animals led to majoring in agriculture Friday, May 17, 2019 Nakia Coit is quick to acknowledge that the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s farm heavily influenced her decision to become a Hawk. The Baltimore native chose agriculture (animal & poultry pre-vet professional concentration) as her major and credits her mother, a registered…Read more From UMES’ farm to Tuskegee’s veterinary school
Two Class of 2019 Pharm.D. students travel to Vietnam Thursday, May 16, 2019 For our public health rotation requirement as Doctor of Pharmacy program students, Lauren Antal and I traveled to Vietnam this past April on a medical mission accompanying Dr. Hoai-An Truong and his UMES faculty colleague Dr. Yen Dang. To ready ourselves…Read more A far-flung clinical rotation doubled as a mercy mission
Thursday, May 9, 2019 With their sights set on the West Coast, New Church, Va. native Deshondre (Dre) Crippen and his wife, Zambian native Ruth (Racheal) Crippen, will both receive their bachelor’s degrees May 24 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s spring commencement. Their journey began when Dre, a construction management technology major, and the electrical engineering…Read more Mr. & Mrs. Crippen: Hawk Love Bound for the West Coast
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 UMES seniors who took “Strategic Management” (BUAD 495), a course that featured a mock stock market investment competition, learned this spring what it takes to be the next Warren Buffett. Long-time business professor Bryant Mitchell builds his syllabus around “an advanced strategy business simulation” known as Capstone that he says “allows…Read more Business majors measure up as stock market investors
UMES artist’s work to grace Tubman National Historic Park Tuesday, May 7, 2019 More than 100,000 people have passed through the visitors’ center at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Church Creek, Md. since it opened in 2017. Future visitors will soon have the opportunity to view artwork created by University of Maryland Eastern…Read more ‘Peace, Freedom & Power’
UMES fashionista runs her own online boutique Monday, May 6, 2019 UMES junior Bryonna Polite, a human ecology major, markets her fashion merchandising skills on a website that since January has generated roughly enough revenue to pay for tuition and fees for a year. The Baltimore native operates Go 2 Girl Bry, an online boutique for custom…Read more Patterns & Profits
Thursday, April 30, 2020 Editor’s note: The transition to all online classes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented adjustment in the journey to realize the goal of earning a college degree. Here’s one undergraduate’s perspective. By Parys Lassiter Things have been really interesting and nerve-racking to say the least since the decision…Read more Staying positive in these troubled times
