Category: News

Friday, November 5, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, Md. – (Nov. 5, 2010) – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Department of Education is co-hosting a national conference Nov. 8 in partnership with the Educational Testing Service for colleagues who train primary and secondary teachers and the people who hire them. Educators from Historically Black Colleges and…Read more UMES Hosts National Conference on Improving Students Achievement and Teaching Quality

Thursday, November 4, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 5, 2010) – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Department of Education is hosting a national conference Nov. 8 for colleagues who train primary and secondary teachers and the people who hire them. Educators from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 10 states and Washington, D.C….Read more UMES Hosts National Testing Conference

Thursday, November 4, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(November 4, 2010) Music to the ears, the UMES Wind Ensemble and Concert Band perform their annual fall concert on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.   Wind Ensemble arrangements and holiday favorites fill the program.”One of the pieces that I’m…Read more Fall Event Features Wind Ensemble and Concert Band

Thursday, November 4, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (November 2, 2010) Representing more than 50 different countries, a contingent of international students at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will join in the national observance of International Education Week, Nov. 15-20, with an Ethnic Festival, open to the campus community and the general public. The…Read more UMES Students Celebrate Culture at Ethnic Festival

Friday, October 29, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(October 29, 2010)-As crisp and clear as the autumn sky, the voices of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Concert Choir will ring through the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 14, at 4 p.m. at one of the few public performances music enthusiasts can hear…Read more Concert Choir Performs Annual Event

Monday, October 25, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(October 25, 2010)Activity on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus takes on a new fervor Tuesday, Nov. 9, when buses roll in from high schools in and out of the area delivering some 1,500 juniors and seniors to the ninth annual Tri-County College Fair.  The event takes place…Read more Tri-County College Fair(2)

Friday, October 22, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(October 22, 2010)A University of Maryland Eastern Shore community service project looks to area businesses to help present some 300 needy families in Somerset County with a Thanksgiving dinner. Building on an effort that brought 100 families a holiday meal last year, two area directors in the Office of Residence…Read more Community Service Project Provides Holiday Meals

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Oct. 5, 2010) – Enrollment at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has topped 4,500 students for the first time in the institution’s 124-year history. UMES’ research office reports 3,967 undergraduates and 573 graduate students are enrolled at the historically black institution six weeks after classes began in…Read more UMES Enrollment Eclipses 4,500

Sunday, October 17, 2010 By Wallace McKelvey• Staff Writer • October 17, 2010   BETHANY BEACH — When Bill Harbester started as a stock boy at a drugstore, pharmacists had very little interaction with the customers. “A lot of people think all we do is put pills into bottles,” he said. But with more new drugs…Read more Pharmacists in high demand

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Oct. 12, 2010) – More than 30 members of UMES’ Drama Society, along with university faculty and staff, will present “God’s Trombones:  Seven Negro Sermons in Verse and a Prayer” Nov. 4-6. The annual fall theater production begins at 7:30 p.m. each evening at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing…Read more Drama Society to Present God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson