Dr. Carolyn B. Brooks, UMES Faculty Member Emerita, is the featured speaker at the second School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences’ Spring Seminar on April 29.
Dr. Brooks, an award-winning educator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for more than three decades and a former dean of the School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, will speak on “135 Years of the Second Morrill Act: Shaping Land-grant Universities and HBCUs.”
The seminar was initially scheduled for Feb. 20, but was postponed due to inclement weather. It will take place from 11 a.m.-noon on April 29 in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions building, Lecture Hall 1126, College Backbone Road on the UMES campus.
The seminar will also be available via Zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88062916985 Please enter your email to join.
The spring seminar series is part of the 135th celebration of the Second Morrill Act of 1890.
Dr. Brooks also served as executive assistant / chief of staff to President Dolores R. Spikes, research director of 1890 land-grant programs and academic department chair during her time at UMES.
The Richmond, Va. native joined the UMES faculty in January 1981 as a research associate specializing in microbiology.
In 2007, she became executive director of Association of 1890 Research Directors, an organization of administrators specializing in agriculture and food sciences at the nation’s 19 historically black land-grant universities, including UMES, where she maintained an office in her new role.
She is an alumna of Tuskegee University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology. Her Ph.D. in microbiology is from The Ohio State University.
She retired in 2016.
WHEN: Thursday, April 29, 11 a.m.
WHERE: School of Pharmacy and Health Professions building, Lecture Hall 1126, College Backbone Road, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dr. Ahmed Elnabawi at aelnabawi@umes.edu
