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Friday, July 27, 2012  Consortium awarded federal environmental agency grant    PHILADELPHIA -(July 27, 2012) – The Maryland Coastal Bays Program received $173,400 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today to underwrite training and instruction that exposes high school and college students from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to best ecological practices and career options in the field. The…Read more EPA announces new support for Coastal Bays work

Friday, July 27, 2012 PRINCESS ANNE — (July 27, 2012) — Toting small rockets they had designed and made themselves, a group of middle schoolers hiked across the UMES campus Thursday morning and positioned them on launch pads in an empty field for the big test. Part of their task was not only building the…Read more UMES campers aim for the sky – Daily Times

Friday, July 20, 2012 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(July 19, 2012)Area middle school students are learning about robotics, earth science and green technology from engineers who work at NASA and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore at the sixth annual “Reach for the Stars” summer camp. Brett Kim, a freshman at Stephen Decatur High School, is getting…Read more Camp inspires students to ‘Reach for the Stars’

Thursday, July 5, 2012 Clinic helps rehab patients get back in the swing ROCKVILLE, MD – (July 1, 2012) – When Bill Haraway, 69, checked into Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland in Rockville in April he had no feeling in his legs from the knees down. The avid golfer of Frederick thought he’d never play…Read more PGM student helps the disabled learn to play golf

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Staff Writer PRINCESS ANNE (July 3, 2012) – Juliette Bell hit the ground, well, talking, on her first day at the office as the 15th president at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her morning was punctilious: two hours of conference calls with her boss and counterparts at other universities in the University…Read more Bell takes UMES reins – Daily Times

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (May 25, 2012) -Two continuing education programs for sheep and goat producers will be held this month at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. A Saturday, June 9 roundtable will focus on an integrated management of internal parasites in sheep and goats. A roundtable that explores how…Read more Sheep and goat roundtables