Event promotes, supports UMES golfers Wednesday, October 24, 2018 The Million Dollar Golf Shootout, hosted by WMDT 47ABC and sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, begins this weekend and provides a chance for one local golfer to win $1 million. The event features qualifying rounds at three different Lower Shore golf courses, where…Read more 2018 $1 Million Golf Shootout starts Oct. 27
Friday, October 19, 2018 Jordan Wesley of Mitchellville, Md. received his undergraduate degree in computer science from UMES this past December, launching him on a path to a post-graduate internship with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Wesley, who played baseball for two years and graduated with a 3.4 grade point average, currently is enrolled at…Read more UMES alum flourishes at prestigious D.C.-area research lab
… they’re taking me to Marrakesh’* Thursday, October 4, 2018 By Allyson McCullough / UMES Class of 2020 A recent overseas adventure demonstrated to me, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once wrote, that “A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimension.” Traveling forces you to trust the unknown, and let…Read more ‘Through clear Moroccan skies …
… Good things can happen Wednesday, October 3, 2018 First, it was zucchinis and squash. Now, it’s pumpkins (and late-season strawberries). Oh my. Dr. Naveen Kumar is the latest University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty member to produce a bountiful harvest from a small experimental plot on the east side of campus. The assistant horticulture…Read more When pumpkins & strawberries grow side-by-side @ UMES
Students design 3D zero-gravity payloads Wednesday, October 31, 2018 UMES physics professor Kausik Das spent a week with the National Research Council of Canada in mid-October participating in suborbital flights to conduct experiments under zero-gravity conditions, including one developed by four University of Maryland Eastern Shore students. Das worked alongside and observed astronauts and scientists who were…Read more The sky is not the limit for UMES researchers
Hurricane threat pushed back ceremony to Sept. 20 Sunday, September 23, 2018 Twenty-nine graduate students in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s doctor of physical therapy program were awarded degrees during summer commencement and a belated 132nd Founders’ Day celebration. Following the ceremony, Rachel V. Whiteley of Bowie and Laura E. Kaufman of Baltimore were named co-winners of the Joseph…Read more UMES awards 29 Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees
Late illustrator Billy Graham’s early works debut at UMES Thursday, September 20, 2018 Over a 25-week period earlier this year, the blockbuster “Black Panther” took in $700 million in gross ticket sales domestically, the top-earning movie for the first nine months of 2018. The name of the late artist, whose creativity in the 1970s inspired…Read more Mosley exhibit: No Longer ‘The Irreverent One’
Steve Walas runs HealthSouth Chesapeake Rehabilitation Hospital Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Steven Walas, chief executive officer of HealthSouth Chesapeake Rehabilitation Hospital, will serve as guest speaker for the rescheduled 2018 Founders’ Day convocation and summer commencement at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The event was pushed back a week out of an abundance of…Read more Hospital CEO steps in to deliver commencement speech
Dr. Tracy Bell is focused on finding new ways to treat diabetes Thursday, September 13, 2018 Next time you gaze into an aquarium to watch zebrafish zip to and fro, you might just be looking at a 2-inch long vertebrate capable of pointing the way to treating high blood pressure and diabetes. That’s because the…Read more More than a fishing expedition for this UMES researcher
Dr. Bradley Stevens’ new book is about discovering a sunken 19th century Russian ship Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Before Dr. Bradley G. Stevens joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty in 2009 as a marine scientist, he conducted research on the biology and reproduction of king crabs for 22 years in Kodiak, Alaska. In the…Read more UMES marine scientist moonlights as an archaeologist
