Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The USDA (MD/DE) Rural Development Office in cooperation with the Maryland Cooperative Extension’s Rural Development Center will conduct a workshop focused on grant programs in two areas important to small businesses and agriculture producers: USDA’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Improvements and the Value-Added Producer Grant programs. …Read more UMES Hosts a Workshop on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Grant and Value-Added Producer Grant Programs
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Cultural Historian to Lecture on Ancient Africa
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Author and cultural historian Anthony T. Browder will visit UMES to present a lecture on Ancient Africa Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Services Center Theater on campus. Browder has lectured extensively throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Africa, Mexico, Japan and Europe on topics pertaining…Read more Cultural Historian to Lecture on Ancient Africa
Bernstein Scholar Presents Lecture
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD -The Richard A. Bernstein Visiting Professor at UMES, Dr. Kofi Awusabo-Asare, will present a talk on The Changing African Family: Issues and Challenges on Thursday, March 8, at 11 a.m. in Room 2040 Hazel Hall. Awusabo-Asare is an associate professor in geography at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana….Read more Bernstein Scholar Presents Lecture
Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert Spotlights Vocalist
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – A self-confessed “jazz junkie,” Bilal will join the UMES Jazz Ensemble for its Spring Concert Wednesday, March 7. Performers will take to the stage in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Bilal, whose full name is Bilal Oliver, has performed with such well-known neo-soul artists as ErykahBadu,…Read more Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert Spotlights Vocalist
UMES President Named One of the Most Important Blacks in Technology
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Dr. Thelma B. Thompson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), was recognized as one of the “Most Important Blacks in Technology for 2007” at the Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Conference in Baltimore recently. Thompson was cited along with 77 other prominent African-American…Read more UMES President Named One of the Most Important Blacks in Technology
Stewardship Workshop is Scheduled for Landowners of One to 10 Acres
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Maryland Cooperative Extension (MCE) is offering a workshop for owners or managers of one to 10 acres who want to make the most of their property and help others do the same. Whether or not you have forest on your land, this training will show how active stewardship can…Read more Stewardship Workshop is Scheduled for Landowners of One to 10 Acres
Nugent Represents UMES at ETS Conference
Monday, February 12, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Michael A. Nugent, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Department of Education was a guest of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at the HBCU Invitational Conference on Assessment at their headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey earlier this month. Twenty-five teacher education deans and faculty members from Historically-Black Colleges…Read more Nugent Represents UMES at ETS Conference
UMES Math Initiative, Professor B Methodology
Monday, February 12, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Professor Everard Barrett, author of the Professor B methodology for mathematics education, demonstrates a proven method of teaching middle school mathematics during workshops sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore through Wednesday, February 14. Barrett is known nationally and internationally for designing a teacher’s method that awakens the…Read more UMES Math Initiative, Professor B Methodology
President’s Annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
Monday, February 12, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – University of Maryland Eastern Shore President Thelma B. Thompson hosts the community during the fourth annual President’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast on Friday, February 23, in the Student Services Center Ballroom at 8:30 a.m. Dr. Lee P. Washington is the keynote speaker. Washington, senior pastor of the more…Read more President’s Annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
Mercantile Peninsula Bank Increases Scholarship Endowment
Sunday, January 28, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD -Peninsula Mercantile Bank will enlarge the scholarship endowment it created to aid students majoring in business, management or accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore by $25,000 over the next four years. “We believe education is important not only to the success of individuals, but to the…Read more Mercantile Peninsula Bank Increases Scholarship Endowment
