Cambridge’s Katie Lipsius found her stride at UMES Intrepid Katie Lipsius walked away from her brief time as a University of Maryland Eastern Shore student with an impressive list of credentials. The Cambridge, Md. native graduated May 24 with highest honors, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. A prestigious two-year fellowship awaits her…Read more 2019 alumna epitomized perseverance
1894 alumna’s grandson delivers stirring commencement message Tuesday, May 28, 2019 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 2019 spring graduation will be remembered for the 426 new alumni it produced and an inspiring example of the long-term dividends an education from a historically black institution can yield. Dr. John B. King Jr., U.S. Secretary of Education during…Read more The transformative power of education
UMES awards 426 degrees to the Class of 2019 Friday, May 24, 2019 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore conferred 426 degrees at its spring 2019 graduation exercises May 24, a historically significant anniversary for the institution. Sixty years ago to the day, the commencement speaker for the class of 1959 was the late Rev….Read more ‘Pay forward the support you received here’
1959 alumni reflect on their encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, May 23, 2019 Charles Laws was a senior at Maryland State College in September 1958 when “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” by the minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama’s capital city was published. Laws read the book because its 29-year-old author, the…Read more ‘He had something in him – some kind of spirit’
Monday, May 20, 2019 @PlasticBottru’s 5,900+ Instagram followers will be pleased to know the talent behind the online comic strip, “Oh, My Intern,” graduates from college this spring. So will the family of Martha Opiyo, who left Kenya four years ago to pursue a college education in America. Opiyo channeled an affinity for drawing — nurtured…Read more A Talent for Telling Stories Through Art
Nakia Coit’s love for animals led to majoring in agriculture Friday, May 17, 2019 Nakia Coit is quick to acknowledge that the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s farm heavily influenced her decision to become a Hawk. The Baltimore native chose agriculture (animal & poultry pre-vet professional concentration) as her major and credits her mother, a registered…Read more From UMES’ farm to Tuskegee’s veterinary school
Two Class of 2019 Pharm.D. students travel to Vietnam Thursday, May 16, 2019 For our public health rotation requirement as Doctor of Pharmacy program students, Lauren Antal and I traveled to Vietnam this past April on a medical mission accompanying Dr. Hoai-An Truong and his UMES faculty colleague Dr. Yen Dang. To ready ourselves…Read more A far-flung clinical rotation doubled as a mercy mission
Thursday, May 9, 2019 With their sights set on the West Coast, New Church, Va. native Deshondre (Dre) Crippen and his wife, Zambian native Ruth (Racheal) Crippen, will both receive their bachelor’s degrees May 24 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s spring commencement. Their journey began when Dre, a construction management technology major, and the electrical engineering…Read more Mr. & Mrs. Crippen: Hawk Love Bound for the West Coast
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 UMES seniors who took “Strategic Management” (BUAD 495), a course that featured a mock stock market investment competition, learned this spring what it takes to be the next Warren Buffett. Long-time business professor Bryant Mitchell builds his syllabus around “an advanced strategy business simulation” known as Capstone that he says “allows…Read more Business majors measure up as stock market investors
UMES artist’s work to grace Tubman National Historic Park Tuesday, May 7, 2019 More than 100,000 people have passed through the visitors’ center at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Church Creek, Md. since it opened in 2017. Future visitors will soon have the opportunity to view artwork created by University of Maryland Eastern…Read more ‘Peace, Freedom & Power’
