Monday, January 23, 2017 Ben Webster just returned from China where he spent three weeks of his winter break from UMES as a participant in a business and culture program sponsored by the Council on International Education Exchange. Webster took a three-credit undergraduate course, “Marketing Management and Methods in East Asia and Emerging Markets,” at East…Read more Making the most of your winter break
Friday, January 20, 2017 One of the PGA tour’s signature golf tournaments takes place at the Pebble Beach Resorts each February and two newly minted UMES alumni will be working on the 2017 edition from a front-row seat. Norman Blanco and Bobby Donson parlayed senior-year internships in UMES’ PGA golf management program into assistant club pro jobs at…Read more These UMES alums are glad to have pebbles in their (golf) shoes
Sunday, December 18, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD. – (Dec. 18, 2016) – Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, Mere Kirihimete, schastlivogo Rozhdestva, sretan Božić, veselé Vánoce. These are just a few of the ways current UMES students might say “Merry Christmas” in their native languages this time of year. In the spirit of the holiday season, UMES Department…Read more A United Nations flag plaza on wheels
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 …”
