English department chair taught at UMES for 17 years Friday, April 13, 2018 A respected educator who spanned the transition from Maryland State College to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore during those challenging times will be honored May 25 at the 2018 spring commencement exercises. James A. Polk will be awarded a presidential medallion…Read more Professor James Polk to receive presidential medallion
Vasavi Veerapaneni is 2018 Bernstein honoree Thursday, April 5, 2018 Vasavi Veerapaneni was eight when she and her family moved to the United States from India. She mastered a new language in the ensuing 11 years and is now on the verge of earning a degree in biology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Along…Read more Biology major wins UMES’ top undergraduate award
Mandala Pie founder is 2018 convocation speaker Friday, March 30, 2018 Caitlin Cecil LaComb returns April 5 to her alma mater to deliver the keynote address at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 65th spring honors convocation. Since graduating with honors in December 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in general agriculture, LaComb served overseas as…Read more UMES Alumna Comes Full ‘Circle’
Langston Frazier was Gov. Larry Hogan’s pick Friday, March 16, 2018 UMES junior Langston O. Frazier’s nomination by Gov. Larry Hogan to serve on the University System of Maryland’s governing board has received formal approval from the state senate. Frazier will represent 170,000 of his peers – including his 20-year-old sister at the University of…Read more UMES student to serve as University System of MD regent
Late jazz aficionado leaves music collection to UMES Thursday, March 15, 2018 James Biays Young spent a rich-and-full life collecting jazz recordings and books about “America’s classical music,” and now the fruits of those twin obsessions are entrusted to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Before Young, a Baltimorean by birth who retired to Ocean…Read more ‘Blues & Roots’
UMES welcomes Calvin G. Butler Jr. May 25 Friday, March 9, 2018 Calvin G. Butler Jr., chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), will deliver the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s commencement address May 25 to the Class of 2018. Butler has been a utility company executive since 2008 when he joined the Chicago-based…Read more BG&E executive is 2018 spring commencement speaker
Thursday, March 8, 2018 Taryn B. Jones, a junior biochemistry major from Willingboro, N.J., will be the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Newman Civic Fellow for the 2018-19 academic year. Jones is among 268 college students selected for the honor by Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization “working to advance the public purposes of higher education.” A…Read more Taryn Jones named Newman Civic Fellow for 2018-19
7th grader Jake Gordy wins spelling bee title Saturday, March 3, 2018 James Gordy, a seventh-grader at Somerset Intermediate School in Westover, bested 21 other competitors Saturday to win the 2018 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee. Gordy, who asked to be introduced as “Jake,” confidently plowed through 26 rounds of words before taking home…Read more Meet the lower Eastern Shore’s best speller for 2018
Exhibit runs through March 31, 2018 Thursday, February 15, 2018 Professional baseball spring training is underway and a new exhibit with multiple ties to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore opens Friday, Feb. 16, at the rebranded Salisbury Art Space in downtown Salisbury. “The Art and History of the Negro Leagues,” which will be featured…Read more UMES professor’s baseball collection on display in Salisbury
Friday, February 23, 2018 A Curriculum Program Grant from Cotton Incorporated has been awarded to Dr. Sunidhi Mehta, an assistant professor in UMES’ Department of Human Ecology. It will support research aimed at providing in-depth information to fashion merchandising students about cotton as a sustainable and green textile material. Mehta’s project, “Cotton: King of Sustainable…Read more Cotton Incorporated awards UMES curriculum grant
