Friday, December 4, 2009 Dingwall Wins Coveted Jefferson Award PRINCESS ANNE, MD – WBOC TV’s Steve Hammond recently presented a coveted Jefferson Award to Brenda Dingwall for her many contributions to the community, with her work as director of two camps, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s “Reach for the Stars” summer camp and “Camp…Read more Dingwall Wins Coveted Jefferson Award
Friday, December 4, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD Some University of Maryland Eastern Shore students are raising funds this holiday season with a Buy-A-Book project to help provide textbooks and readers for East African Kyamulinga School students and their teachers. More than 200 pupils at the Kyamulinga Public Primary School located in Uganda, East Africa,…Read more Holiday Season Fundraiser Supports Literacy Project
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-Discover and explore Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Geospatial Information Technologies Laboratory’s second annual GIS Day on Wednesday, November 18, from 1-6 p.m. in the Richard A. Henson Center. Universities; local businesses; and local, state, and federal agencies will provide information and demonstrations….Read more Discover GIS on the Eastern Shore
Monday, November 16, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-Representing 50 countries, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore contingent of international students is joining in the nation’s observance of International Education Week, November 16-20, with an ethnic festival open to the campus community as well as the general public. The ethnic festival takes place Thursday, November 19, from…Read more International Education Week Features Ethnic Festival
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Dr. Thelma B. Thompson and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, in partnership with the University of Cape Coast, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Golden Beach Hotels and the Central Region Development Commission in Ghana, recently hosted its Third Biennial International Workshop in Accra, Ghana. Administrators,…Read more UMES Hosts Third Biennial International Workshop
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 By Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes UMES scholar researches fish skin secretions in Chesapeake Bay By the time Andriy Tkachenko decided it was time to leave Europe to expand his research interests in aquatic animals, he’d already worked as a soil scientist at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. He started his…Read more UMES Scholar Researches Fish Skin Secretions in Chesapeake Bay
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced the recent appointment of two new members, Gladys Goslee and Alicia Hoffman, to the Board of Visitors for a three-year term on the recommendation of President Thelma B. Thompson. Goslee is a retired Wicomico County teacher. She taught French at…Read more Goslee, Hoffman Appointed to UMES Board
Monday, November 9, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD University of Maryland Eastern Shore president, Dr. Thelma B. Thompson, is keynote speaker for the 2009 Women in Maryland Higher Education annual luncheon. Themed “The Sky is the Limit: Women in Higher Education,” the event is scheduled for Friday, November 13, at 11:30 a.m. at the Community College…Read more Thompson Keynotes at Women in Maryland Higher Education Luncheon
Monday, November 9, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-Michael Tardif, director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems for Grunley Construction Company Inc., a major construction company in the D.C. metropolitan area, lectures on the topic, “Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM): A Contractor’s Perspective,” on Tuesday, November 10, at 11 a.m. in the Student Services…Read more UMES Lecture Series Addresses Building Information Modeling
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 By Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes UMES Doctoral student contributes to Breast Cancer Research As a little girl in Mashad, a town in her native Iran, Maryam Taabodi was a picky eater searching her food to find and eat only those things she felt had nutritional value. Now a grown woman, she has…Read more UMES Doctoral Student Contributes to Breast Cancer Research
