Friday, December 16, 2016 “All eyes are on you” PRINCESS ANNE, MD. – (Dec. 16, 2016) – A brutally cold day could not penetrate the warmth and good cheer of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 20th winter graduation, where alumni rolls grew today by 318. Graduates heard uplifting messages from commencement speaker Tinisha Agramonte, who…Read more All eyes are on the Class of 2016
And you thought hoverboards were the hot new thing Monday, December 12, 2016 Baseball team gets new wheels PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 12, 2016) – UMES students have been seen on campus during the fall semester sporting hot, new rides – but they aren’t cars. Kick scooters, which were a childhood summer staple for…Read more Holy Cow! Phil Rizzuto would love UMES’ baseball team
High-tech haberdashers Friday, December 9, 2016 High-tech haberdashers Friday, December 9, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 9, 2016) – A University of Maryland Eastern Shore professor and an upstart company founded by a 2015 alumnus have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Program to underwrite a technology-product development project involving bio-degradable batteries….Read more ‘Badjo Suit’ lives on
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Bell urges Congress to provide 1890 land-grants with scholarship help PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 7, 2016) – UMES President Juliette B. Bell testified today before a Congressional committee where she urged it to fund scholarships specifically for minorities who want to pursue careers in agriculture. “The agriculture field has evolved greatly,”…Read more UMES president testifies on Capitol Hill
Monday, December 5, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 5, 2016) – Three retired University of Maryland Eastern Shore educators with nearly a century of combined service will be among those singled out for recognition during winter commencement exercises Dec. 16. John Lamkin (music), Howard Rebach (social sciences) and Karen Verbeke (education) join the exclusive ranks…Read more UMES prepares for 2016 winter commencement
Thursday, December 1, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 1, 2016) – All 27 graduate students who earned doctorates in physical therapy this past September from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore passed the national licensure exam on the first try. UMES’ class of 2016 is the third consecutive group of graduates to achieve that distinction,…Read more It’s 3-in-a-row for UMES’ physical therapy program
Friday, November 18, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD. – (Nov. 18, 2016) – What does a Gen X dynamo do for an encore after a song she recorded as a teenager made Billboard’s Top 40 and a recent photo she snapped was published in The New York Times? Angelica Garcia-Randle enrolled in the University of Maryland…Read more “Everything I’ve dreamed of …”
Friday, November 11, 2016 From dodging bombs to hitting them from a tee box PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 11, 2016) – James Robinson, a 20-year U.S. Army veteran who was deployed to war-torn Iraq a decade ago, knows exactly what he wants to do with the next phase of his life. The 41-year-old sophomore at…Read more Retired Army Vet eyes PGA golf management career
Friday, November 4, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD- (Nov. 4, 2016)– The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Concert Choir salutes active U.S. servicemen and women and veterans at its Nov. 13 performance. The 4 p.m. concert in honor of Veterans’ Day takes place in the Ella Fitzgerald Center on UMES’ campus. The 35-member ensemble welcomes guest…Read more UMES Concert Choir salutes veterans
Thursday, November 3, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 3, 2016) – For the first time in my forty-plus years as a Caribbean-American woman, I will be voting in a United States presidential election. A U.S Virgin Island resident gets almost all of the perks that someone living in the contiguous United States (plus Alaska and…Read more An interesting time to cast my first vote for president
