Money will be used for digital design hardware Thursday, May 11, 2017 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that will be used to bring the latest digital technology to fashion design and merchandising classes. The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture notified Dr. Grace Namwamba, chairwoman…Read more USDA grant to support fashion merchandising
Pocomoke High alumna will deliver student commentary Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Jasmine E. Brown will represent nearly 330 members of the senior class on stage at spring 2017 commencement exercises May 26 when she delivers the student commentary. Brown, a member of the Richard A. Henson Honors Program, was the top choice of a panel of five…Read more Meet Jasmine Brown, Class of 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Blue skies and unseasonably warm temperatures for late April provided ideal conditions for high school students putting their Chesapeake deadrise crab boat models through the test in the 2017 Eastern Shore Crab Boat Engineering Challenge sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. For Jeremy Novak, the 16-year-old Stephen Decatur High School…Read more 2017 Crab Boat Engineering Challenge
Dr. Isrea Butler picked to direct the 369th Experience Band Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Dr. Isrea Butler embarks on a seminal personal journey this summer alongside young musicians who together will retrace the footsteps and performances – symbolically and literally – that will show how a World War I military band overcame segregation and changed history. Butler,…Read more WWI tribute band will feature UMES musicians
By Dr. Maurice Crawford Monday, May 1, 2017 “Science serves our nation” was among the many signs displayed during the March for Science on Earth Day 2017. Even though it was damp and cold on the National Mall in Washington D.C., thousands of scientists turned out in a very spirited mood. Like others march participants,…Read more My March for Science
Alumnus Art Shell among those being honored Friday, April 28, 2017 Rushern L. Baker III, Prince George’s County executive, will be the spring 2017 graduation speaker for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore May 26 in the William P. Hytche Athletic Center. A sizeable number of audience members on commencement day will be his…Read more UMES announces 2017 spring graduation line-up
Monday, April 24, 2017 Logan Gibson, a graduating senior at Pikesville High School near Baltimore and newly admitted UMES student, met her favorite social media personality, UMES senior Jayla Watson, at a recent open house on campus. Gibson is smitten with UMES and Watson’s concentration in fashion merchandising, thanks to Instagram and YouTube posts Gibson…Read more UMES social media personality inspires future Hawk
UMES to host free strategy clinic April 29 Friday, April 14, 2017 Lower Delmarva residents who know someone struggling with opioid use can get answers to their questions Saturday, April 29 at a free information-exchange clinic sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Students in UMES’ School of Pharmacy & Health Professions have organized…Read more Confronting opioid addiction & abuse
Open educational resources coming to UMES Thursday, April 13, 2017 UMES students who register this fall for a select number of general education classes offered by the university’s Department of English and Modern Languages can expect to spend less on traditional textbooks. That’s the objective of Courtney Harned and Bonni Miller, who are tapping into…Read more ‘The imminent autumn of new content’
… and learning stuff, too Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Imagine a spring break from college clearing brush along gnarly nature trails, rounding up refuse at Assateague Island National Seashore and making over an unkempt cemetery. Along with cultural excursions sprinkled in, that’s what eight University of Maryland Eastern Shore students did during the third week…Read more A Spring Break Fixing Things
