Thursday, December 1, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 1, 2016) – All 27 graduate students who earned doctorates in physical therapy this past September from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore passed the national licensure exam on the first try. UMES’ class of 2016 is the third consecutive group of graduates to achieve that distinction,…Read more It’s 3-in-a-row for UMES’ physical therapy program
Friday, November 18, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD. – (Nov. 18, 2016) – What does a Gen X dynamo do for an encore after a song she recorded as a teenager made Billboard’s Top 40 and a recent photo she snapped was published in The New York Times? Angelica Garcia-Randle enrolled in the University of Maryland…Read more “Everything I’ve dreamed of …”
Friday, November 11, 2016 From dodging bombs to hitting them from a tee box PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 11, 2016) – James Robinson, a 20-year U.S. Army veteran who was deployed to war-torn Iraq a decade ago, knows exactly what he wants to do with the next phase of his life. The 41-year-old sophomore at…Read more Retired Army Vet eyes PGA golf management career
Friday, November 4, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD- (Nov. 4, 2016)– The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Concert Choir salutes active U.S. servicemen and women and veterans at its Nov. 13 performance. The 4 p.m. concert in honor of Veterans’ Day takes place in the Ella Fitzgerald Center on UMES’ campus. The 35-member ensemble welcomes guest…Read more UMES Concert Choir salutes veterans
Thursday, November 3, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 3, 2016) – For the first time in my forty-plus years as a Caribbean-American woman, I will be voting in a United States presidential election. A U.S Virgin Island resident gets almost all of the perks that someone living in the contiguous United States (plus Alaska and…Read more An interesting time to cast my first vote for president
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 2, 2016) – CISCO Systems Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, named UMES junior Waunye Seawell and senior Christian Walston, winners in the second annual CISCO Invitational Sales Competition at UMES. “This was a dynamic sales competition that challenged top university students to engage in a mock sales…Read more UMES nurtures Silicon Valley pipeline
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – Local photographer and world traveler Cheryl Nemazie presents, “A Career in Balance; Capturing the World from Both Sides of the Economic Divide,” at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Mosely Gallery. The exhibit opens with a reception Thursday, Nov. 3, from 4-6 p.m. and remains on display through…Read more Nemazie photographs on exhibit at Mosely Gallery
Friday, October 21, 2016 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Oct. 21, 2016) – A team of researchers that includes UMES agriculture, food and resource sciences professors is scratching the surface of a new frontier searching for alternatives to fossil fuels that power combustion engines. Actually, that frontier is eight-to-12 inches below the surface of a fifth of…Read more Sugar beets ~ a reliable source of biofuel?
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Henson Foundation donates $1 M; atrium named for Delmarva Power’s prior gift; building receives LEED Gold certification PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Oct. 19, 2016)-The Richard A. Henson Foundation, in the enduring philanthropic spirit of its namesake, continues to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, this time with a $1 million gift…Read more Engineering & Aviation Science Complex dedicated
Thursday, October 13, 2016 Tri-County College Fair an annual community service PRINCESS ANNE, MD – High school juniors and seniors can connect with representatives from colleges across the country at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Tri-County College Fair. The event, in its 15th year, is free and takes place Thurs., Oct. 20, from 9 a.m. to…Read more UMES sponsors College Fair Oct. 20
