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The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is partnering with the Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) to design leadership programs specifically for women to help them become successful entrepreneurs. TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, said the programs “are designed to build an alliance of diverse founders and CEOs” to nurture “entrepreneurial innovation.”  Maryland’s four…Read more UMES joins effort to help minority businesswomen

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is in line to receive $850,000 from the latest federal omnibus funding legislation Congress approved earlier this month. The money will underwrite a new initiative in UMES’ School of Graduate Studies and Research as well as an ongoing project to convert records, photos and other important documents in the…Read more New federal budget funds two UMES projects

Republic Airways, an Indianapolis-based regional passenger airline, made a St. Patrick’s Day donation of $20,000 to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s aviation science program. The gift will be used to provide scholarships for students, underwrite their travel and participation in professional aviation events, and support advanced faculty and flight instructor training. “Our goal…Read more Republic is UMES’ latest corporate aviation partner

Dr. Miriam C. Purnell, a UMES School of Pharmacy professor, is among 17 University System of Maryland peers to be recognized by the Board of Regents as a 2022 faculty award winner. The awards are the highest honor presented to exemplary faculty members by the governing board. They honor excellence in: teaching; mentoring; public service;…Read more UMES professor is an award-winning mentor

The first word Jeffrey Hsia was challenged to spell at the 2022 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee was ‘lucky.’ It proved a harbinger of good things to come. Jeffrey, an eighth grader at Bennett Middle School in Salisbury, won the competition and earned an automatic invitation to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee…Read more ‘Luck is the residue of hard work …’

Another high-profile golf industry partner has stepped forward to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s hospitality and tourism management program. Troon, a leading international golf course and resort management company, announced a Black History Month initiative to help underrepresented hospitality and professional golf management majors defray college expenses. The Troon Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…Read more Troon makes the day for the maroon & gray

George E. Miles, a proud 1960 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, understood the value of higher education. Now, his legacy will live on through students on the lower Eastern Shore, thanks to recent gifts from his estate to local colleges and universities, including approximately $3.3 million each to the University of…Read more Late NASA engineer bequeaths $3.3 million to UMES

On Christmas Eve, Tegwa Fadl Alla sent an e-mail to Salisbury TV station WBOC, which annually coordinates the local Jefferson Award program that recognizes the community’s unheralded altruists. The Arabic teacher nominated fellow educator Muna Elobaid, drawing attention to Elobaid’s work in assisting Sudanese immigrants’ assimilation into life in America. “As a migrant community,” Fadl…Read more UMES technology trainer is Jefferson Award winner

The 2022 spring semester will be Dr. Derry Stufft’s swansong as founding director of UMES’ doctoral program in education leadership. Stufft, who turned 73 this past December, is retiring from full-time work after a 52-year career in education spanning the spectrum from kindergarten to graduate school. He will continue as a dissertation adviser to current…Read more A half-century of ‘paying it forward’

UMES honors students in Dr. Amy Hagenrater-Gooding’s freshman English course are writing essays inspired by a year-long, university-wide reading initiative using Ross Gay’s Book of Delights and focusing on delights of their own. I walked outside one day this past summer to a sky that was baby blue painted with wispy clouds. There was a…Read more ‘Everybody ~ have you heard’