Year: 2026

A new program implemented will help interested University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty members get an opportunity to gain leadership experience. UMES Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Rondall Allen announced the inaugural cohort of a new Assistant Chair Program geared at developing a pipeline of capable leaders able to address the evolving…Read more First cohort of Assistant Chair Program relishes chance to grow

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) will host author, entrepreneur, and activist Stacey Abrams as the keynote speaker for its annual Presidential Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m. The event, the second in the series, will take place in the UMES Student Services Center theater and is open to the public….Read more Stacey Abrams to address UMES community on April 8

Megan Barrientos, an eighth grader at Wicomico Middle School, claimed her second consecutive Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee title on Saturday. Barrientos, who clinched the competition by spelling the word “mythopoeic,” was the first back-to-back winner since Gia Bautista – also a student at Wicomico Middle School – won the event in 2014 and…Read more Barrientos doubles up as spelling bee champion

This weekend, some of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s most talented sequential artists will show off their works as part of a celebration of comic fandom. UMES’ Department of Fine Arts will host its second annual Hawk Con event on Saturday, March 7 at the Student Services Center on the UMES campus. The one-day…Read more UMES to host second annual Hawk Con on Saturday, March 7

Lower Eastern Shore students will converge on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore this weekend for an old-fashioned spelldown. UMES will host the 2026 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 7, at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. The competition begins at 10 a.m. UMES has sponsored the event since…Read more UMES to host 2026 Maryland Eastern Shore Spelling Bee on March 7

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) recently received a national honor recognizing its efforts to collaborate with academic institutions and the communities they serve. UMES was named one of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2026 awardees of its Community Engagement (CE) Classification in January. The University is one of 239 institutions…Read more UMES earns Carnegie Foundation’s 2026 Community Engagement Classification

Dr. Marla Frederick opened the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 2026 Black History Month activities with an address on several topics focusing on the African American experience. Frederick, the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard Divinity School, spoke with the campus community during a Feb. 5 event held at the Student Services…Read more ‘The work of HBCUs has been to create generations of leaders’

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Walter Woods has been selected to participate in the Leadership Maryland program. Woods, UMES’ Coordinator for Outreach and Strategic Initiatives, is one of 53 members chosen for the organization’s 33rd class. “I am humbled and honored to be selected for this opportunity to elevate my leadership knowledge, skill, and…Read more Woods selected for Leadership Maryland

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore remembers civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who died Feb. 17 at the age of 84. Jackson, the founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, was one of the latter 20th century’s most well-known figures in the Civil Rights movement following the 1968…Read more UMES remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) will host the Smithsonian Institution’s SPARK! Places of Innovation traveling exhibit at the Frederick Douglass Library on the UMES campus. The interactive exhibit, which highlights innovation in rural communities, was brought to campus through a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Maryland Humanities’…Read more Smithsonian’s SPARK! Innovation exhibit on display at UMES’ Douglass Library