Driving student success Tuesday, March 28, 2017 A new roving ambassador with a robust profile has joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Admissions and Recruitment office. A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 van debuted this week at the UMES Washington Metropolitan Area Alumni Chapter’s 27th annual student recruitment reception. Prospective students, their families and graduates were the…Read more ‘Be the one who succeeds’
Alumna inspired by her AmeriCorps experience Friday, March 24, 2017 Dr. Deanna Dunn, a member of the UMES pharmacy school’s charter class of 2013, took her experience volunteering as a graduate student as motivation to address a major health issue in the community while pursuing her career goals. Dunn has established the Marion Pharmacy in Crisfield…Read more Confronting the opioid crisis
HOME/ PR/ UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance Core Ensemble performs “Ain’t I a Woman” Friday, March 17, 2017 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore plays host to a free performance, “Ain’t I a Woman,” Thursday, March 30 by the Core Ensemble of Lake Worth, Fla….Read more
Friday, March 17, 2017 Two women with University of Maryland Eastern Shore ties have been named by The Daily Record to the Baltimore-based newspaper’s 2017 listing of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. Kimberly C. Dumpson, UMES’ executive vice president, and Bonnie N. Luna, a member of the university’s Board of Visitors, will be among women from across the…Read more Dumpson, Luna named to Maryland’s Top 100 Women list for 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore pays tribute to “two American icons of history and culture,” Harriet Tubman and Ella Fitzgerald, at its April 2 Concert Choir performance, said Dr. Sheila McDonald Harleston, director. The 4 p.m. concert is free and will be performed in the university’s performing arts center, the…Read more Concert Choir honors Tubman and Fitzgerald April 2
Friday, March 10, 2017 When the 17-acre Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., near Cambridge, Md. officially opens March 11-12, UMES will be on hand playing an important role in opening activities. The center, for which ground was broken four years ago on the 100th anniversary of Tubman’s death,…Read more UMES plays integral role in opening of Harriet Tubman Visitor Center
Gaining Real Impactful Life Lessons through Experience & Education Wednesday, March 8, 2017 UMES hospitality-tourism management students will soon have a new option in getting hands-on experience when an existing restaurant getting a new look re-opens in Princess Anne this spring. M STREET GRILLE is a collaborative venture between the University of Maryland Eastern Shore,…Read more Introducing M STREET GRILLE
Dr. Herman Eure, trailblazer and mentor Monday, March 6, 2017 This profile originally was published in Wake Forest Magazine and is reproduced here with permission. By Carol L. Hanner Herman Eure (Ph.D. ’74) never expected that studying parasites would lead to receiving Wake Forest (University’s) highest honor, the Medallion of Merit. And in a way, it didn’t….Read more ‘I was never afraid’
Erin Welch is 2017 Regional Spelling Bee champ Saturday, March 4, 2017 The fourth time was the charm for Erin Welch of Princess Anne at the 2017 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee. The eighth-grader from St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Salisbury bested 26 other competitors Saturday to win the title of the…Read more Spelling ‘solvency’ right makes life sweet
Friday, March 31, 2017 UMES sophomore Axel Bayingana is among an elite group of peers from colleges across the country identified by a Boston-based non-profit organization as “public problem solvers.” Transform, a coalition of more than 1,000 institutions that advances the public purposes of higher education, named Bayingana and 272 other students Newman Civic Fellows,…Read more UMES Student Named a 2017 Newman Civic Fellow
