Innovative new programs are now enabling students to earn their degrees while balancing professional and personal commitments. The Department of Human Ecology has added two fully online learning opportunities to help meet workforce demand for qualified professionals in child development, dietetics and nutrition, family and consumer sciences, and fashion merchandising and design. A long-awaited online…Read more Online human ecology programs strive to narrow workforce gap
UMES moves to become an arboretum with walking trail
Creating a Center for Urban Forestry at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is the first step on a four-year climb toward providing the Delmarva Peninsula with a crown of resources when it comes to trees. Community members, arborists and urban foresters from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, along with students interested in a career in…Read more UMES moves to become an arboretum with walking trail
UMES study looks at heat stress on pasture raised poultry
As the nation’s demographics change, so do the tastes and preferences of consumers when it comes to their food. Demand for meat produced through alternative methods, such as free range, organic and pastured, is on the rise. Today, however, when it comes to chickens, conventionally raised broilers dominate the U.S. poultry industry with 60 billion…Read more UMES study looks at heat stress on pasture raised poultry
Free activities for youth at UMES 4-H STEM Festival Oct. 19
Budding scientists in grades K-12 can experience STEM activities like a gravity-defying levitation that will have Harry Potter fans saying “Wingardium Leviosa!” at a free event Oct. 19 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. This demonstration, cooling a superconducting material with liquid nitrogen that will allow it to float above a magnet, is among…Read more Free activities for youth at UMES 4-H STEM Festival Oct. 19
