Category: News

Friday, March 13, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The eighth annual Eastern Shore Seafood Education Seminar for restaurant chefs, managers, wait staff, new employees and retail seafood market staff takes place at the new Holiday Inn on 17th Street in Ocean City from 9 a.m. 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8.  Limited to the first 40…Read more Seafood Education Seminar for Delmarva Restaurant Chefs and Management to be Held in Ocean City

Monday, March 9, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – In cooperation with the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University, the Mosely Gallery will be home to the traveling exhibition “Most Daring Dream: The Photography of Robert Houston & the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign until Friday, March 27.  The exhibit features more than fifty…Read more Photography of Robert Houston Captures King’s Most Daring Dream

Monday, March 9, 2009 IBM and UMES Launch Strategic Business Partnership Agreement PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Innovation and technology met at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), where IBM in partnership with UMES launched an “Enterprise System z” IT curriculum infusion program on Wednesday, February 25, with some 60 students in attendance.  IBM has…Read more IBM and UMES Launch Strategic Business Partnership Agreement

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD-Widely recognized for his mastery of the highest registers of the trumpet, renowned musician and music educator Jon Faddis will join the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Jazz Ensemble in concert on Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.  “We are…Read more Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso Jon Faddis Joins Ensemble in Concert

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, May 13 J.T. Williams Portico 11 a.m. – noon Join President Thelma B. Thompson, Ph.D., for food, fun and giveaways. PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is the Tom Joyner Foundation’s Historically Black College/University (HBCU) of the Month for August 2009.  A certified 501(c)3…Read more UMES, Tom Joyner HBCU of The Month August 09

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Do you raise animals on pasture?  Have the high costs of feed hurt your profits?  The Pasture Based Meat Production Workshop has some answers for you! On Saturday, March 14, Maryland Cooperative Extension is hosting a pasture based meat workshop at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore….Read more UMES Hosts Pasture Based Meat Production Workshop

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 E-Health Project Offers Community Education, Awareness PRINCESS ANNE, MD – University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy and Health Professions students gear up to conduct community education programs at each of three county libraries, located in Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties, on Wednesday, February 11, in accordance with the recently funded…Read more E-Health Project Offers Community Education, Awareness

Tuesday, February 3, 2009…Read more School of Pharmacy and Health Professions e-Health Access Project

Friday, January 30, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Black History Month activities at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore begin in the Student Services Center rotunda on Monday, February 2, with a 9 a.m. kick-off event that offers prizes and giveaways in support of the month’s theme, “The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas.”  …Read more UMES Celebrates Black History

Friday, January 30, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Austin Cox Jr., president and CEO of Austin Cox Mechanical Inc. and the newest member of the UMES Board of Visitors, recently pledged $25,000 to support the UMES seven-year $14 million Campaign for Academic Excellence.  Payable in five disbursements of $5,000 each over the next five years,…Read more Cox Joins Campaign for Academic Excellence