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The University of Maryland Eastern Shore received a sizeable grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of the Herpes Simplex Virus on brain neurons. UMES’s funding, which is spread across a four-year period, came from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) grant….Read more UMES receives $560,000 research grant from NIH to study HSV-1 virus

When Mikayla Carroll arrived at the Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center on April 4, she was unaware of the surprise awaiting her. Carroll, a graduating senior majoring in commercial photography, was one of four students who received the Award of Excellence for their respective undergraduate schools during the 71st Annual Honors Convocation. The convocation, held…Read more ‘It means everything to me’

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is one of 32 Historically Black Colleges and Universities participating in the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) National Championship Tournament (NCT), set for April 6-10 in Torrance, California. UMES, competing in the HBCU quiz bowl competition for the 22nd time, will be represented by sophomores Princaya Sanders (Baltimore, Md.)…Read more UMES earns nod for Honda Campus All-Star Challenge’s “Thrilling 32”

The final round of the 2024 Lower Eastern Shore Spelling Bee lasted longer than you might think.  Like a tense tennis match, words bounced back and forth between Conor Keightley-Reinhardt and Stephen Decatur Middle School’s 7th grader Ilya Karcheuski.  Before spelling each word, the contestants stated their names.   Keightley-Reinhardt strode to the microphone each time…Read more Keightley-Reinhardt is the 2024 Lower Eastern Shore Spelling Bee Champion

Princess Anne, MD—The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) has received another major research grant to study three areas that have become headline topics:  artificial intelligence, climate change and sustainability, and health care outcomes.  This follows on another major research grant on AI and a $2.5M “Driving Change” grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute….Read more UMES Receives $4.6M Research Grant from U.S. Dept. of Education

The IR-4 Project is celebrating 60 years of assisting specialty crop producers and other stakeholders by facilitating the registration of safe and effective pesticides, biopesticides and other pest management technology. In doing so, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded national research program contributes nearly $9 billion to the nation’s annual gross domestic product. For nearly four…Read more UMES contributes to USDA IR-4 Project’s 60-year mission of helping specialty crop growers

Researchers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore are conducting cutting-edge research on the use of facial recognition technology in the justice system.  Dr. Sandeep Gopalan and his team including Dr. Lily Chi-Fang Tsai and Ms. Qian Leng, are studying how state law enforcement agencies are using this technology and the potential problems it may…Read more Building accountability and trust