New UMES president outlines her initial plans Sunday, September 9, 2018 Dr. Heidi M. Anderson’s whirlwind first week as UMES’ 16th leader began with fund-raising outreach in Orlando and ended today at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in a traditional gesture recognizing the 132nd anniversary of the university and the church as Princess Anne landmarks. In…Read more TEAM = Together in Excellence, Affirming our Mission
1940 alum has fond memories of growing up in Princess Anne Dr. Thomas H. Kiah, the dapper leader of old Princess Anne College who died in 1936, left a lasting impression on most people he encountered – an observant Louis Frazier Martin among them. “I really admired him,” recalled Martin, now 101. “He was basically…Read more A life rich and full, well lived
UMES research project focuses on managing insects Wednesday, August 15, 2018 The day may not be too far off when melons will grow in the same field alongside summer squash and zinnias. Dr. Simon Zebelo, an agriculture research professor who specializes in entomology, and his graduate student Ebony Jenkins are field testing an environmentally friendly pollination strategy to attract…Read more Trap crops: ‘Its about the bees … and the flowers’
He’ll serve as dean of the School of Education, Social Science & The Arts Friday, June 29, 2018 Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson Jr. has joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s academic leadership team as dean of its School of Education, Social Sciences and The Arts. Stevenson most recently served in a similar role at…Read more Marshall Stevenson joins UMES academic leadership team
UMES, Marion Sarah Peyton school collaborate on gardening project Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Somerset County’s Marion Sarah Peyton Adult & Alternative Learning Center focused on food as a school-wide project during 2017-18 academic year, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore played a supporting role. It started in September, when educators at the Peyton school…Read more Garden Partners
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum exhibit highlighting the role protest marches played in the movement includes a 1966 photograph of a 22-year-old black man wearing a Maryland State College t-shirt. The museum in Jackson, the state capital, acquired the image from Alabama’s Department of Archives and History, home to a repository…Read more ‘I believe in human dignity’
Friday, May 25, 2018 Creativity became a partner of unbridled joy at the 131st spring commencement exercises Friday, ushering in a new era at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The university’s administration relaxed graduation-day rules and allowed honorees to decorate their mortar boards with customized expressions. The sartorial headwear at England’s royal wedding a…Read more Hats off to the Class of 2018
Rising senior hoping to convince others to follow in her footsteps Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Abigail Chambers is a one-of-a-kind undergraduate at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. A candidate to graduate in the spring of 2019, Chambers is an agriculture education major – the lone student at UMES currently pursuing that degree path. She’s…Read more Abigail Chambers: agriculture education ambassador
To be named faculty member emerita Thursday, May 10, 2018 Dr. Carolyn B. Brooks, an award-winning educator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for more than three decades, will be formally named a faculty member emerita May 25 during the 2018 spring commencement. The Richmond, Va. native joined the UMES faculty in January 1981 as a…Read more Carolyn Brooks to be honored at May 25 commencement
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Senior Jahmai E. Holland will deliver the student commentary on behalf of her classmates at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 2018 spring commencement exercises May 25. A panel of judges picked Holland, an accounting major from Landover, Md., following an audition where she delivered a rousing preliminary version of her…Read more Spring commencement’s student speaker named
