As December 2018 graduates embark on the next chapter of their lives, members of the Class of 1968 were honored at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's 22nd winter commencement.  The class of '68 includes a Tony-nominated stage actress, retired...

While making a list and checking it twice, we go straight to a big man (on campus) himself. A long-time University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty member - and member of a giving profession - wears an additional stocking cap this time of year. And ...

Graduation day at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore began shrouded in fog, much the way some degree candidates surely must have felt their first day of college - some just 3½ years ago. By midday, 270 newly minted graduates emerged from the un...

Eden Ndjami, who as a child emigrated with her parents from Cameroon to America, delivers the student commentary on behalf of classmates who graduate Dec. 14 during the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's 22nd winter commencement exercises. The bi...

Annette Kenney is proof it's never too late to pursue a college education. On the cusp of turning 50, Kenney earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in December 2016. And she isn't finished. Kenney is a...

Philanthropist-broadcaster Tom Joyner will put an exclamation point on his recent efforts to help the University of Maryland Eastern Shore boost its scholarship fund by serving as the December 2018 commencement speaker. Joyner will be just the fourth...

Editor's note: This essay is adapted from remarks the writer delivered during the 2018 President's Donor Reception Oct. 25.What is life without the ability to receive and give gifts? Giving can create an array of many colorful perspectives, and a wor...

UMES physics professor Kausik Das spent a week with the National Research Council of Canada in mid-October participating in suborbital flights to conduct experiments under zero-gravity conditions, including one developed by four University of Marylan...

Dr. Henry M. Brooks, who served 33 years as 1890 extension administrator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, was inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievements and contributions to 4-H. Honored by the Maryland 4-H ...

I always wanted to pursue a career in health care.  A presentation at a career day in high school set me on the path to becoming one of America's most trusted professionals: a pharmacist.As I began to learn more about what pharmacists do, I came to u...

The Million Dollar Golf Shootout, hosted by WMDT 47ABC and sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, begins this weekend and provides a chance for one local golfer to win $1 million. The event features qualifying rounds at three differen...

Jordan Wesley of Mitchellville, Md. received his undergraduate degree in computer science from UMES this past December, launching him on a path to a post-graduate internship with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Wesley, who played baseball for ...

Richard Warren Jr.'s classroom is not difficult to locate a few steps down the hall from Crisfield High School's central office.  It might just be a local landmark, now that he's Maryland's 2018-19 Teacher of the Year. Warren's door festooned in maro...

By Allyson McCullough / UMES Class of 2020A recent overseas adventure demonstrated to me, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once wrote, that “A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimension.” Traveling forces you to trust the un...

First, it was zucchinis and squash. Now, it's pumpkins (and late-season strawberries). Oh my. Dr. Naveen Kumar is the latest University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty member to produce a bountiful harvest from a small experimental plot on the east...

Twenty-nine graduate students in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's doctor of physical therapy program were awarded degrees during summer commencement and a belated 132nd Founders' Day celebration. Following the ceremony, Rachel V. Whiteley o...

Over a 25-week period earlier this year, the blockbuster “Black Panther” took in $700 million in gross ticket sales domestically, the top-earning movie for the first nine months of 2018. The name of the late artist, whose creativity in the 1970s insp...

Steven Walas, chief executive officer of HealthSouth Chesapeake Rehabilitation Hospital, will serve as guest speaker for the rescheduled 2018 Founders' Day convocation and summer commencement at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The event was...

Next time you gaze into an aquarium to watch zebrafish zip to and fro, you might just be looking at a 2-inch long vertebrate capable of pointing the way to treating high blood pressure and diabetes. That's because the small fish with black and white ...

Before Dr. Bradley G. Stevens joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty in 2009 as a marine scientist, he conducted research on the biology and reproduction of king crabs for 22 years in Kodiak, Alaska.  In the early 21st century, Steve...

Dr. Heidi M. Anderson's whirlwind first week as UMES' 16th leader began with fund-raising outreach in Orlando and ended today at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in a traditional gesture recognizing the 132nd anniversary of the university and the...

Dr. Thomas H. Kiah, the dapper leader of old Princess Anne College who died in 1936, left a lasting impression on most people he encountered - an observant Louis Frazier Martin among them. “I really admired him,” recalled Martin, now 101.  “He was ba...

UMES' 132nd Founders' Day Convocation speaker will be Dr. John B. King Jr., the grandson of one of the institution's earliest graduates. King is president and chief executive of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to ide...

The day may not be too far off when melons will grow in the same field alongside summer squash and zinnias. Dr. Simon Zebelo, an agriculture research professor who specializes in entomology, and his graduate student Ebony Jenkins are field testing an...

Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson Jr. has joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's academic leadership team as dean of its School of Education, Social Sciences and The Arts. Stevenson most recently served in a similar role at Delaware State Universi...

Somerset County's Marion Sarah Peyton Adult & Alternative Learning Center focused on food as a school-wide project during 2017-18 academic year, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore played a supporting role. It started in September, when ...

A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum exhibit highlighting the role protest marches played in the movement includes a 1966 photograph of a 22-year-old black man wearing a Maryland State College t-shirt. The museum in Jackson, the state capital, acquired ...

Creativity became a partner of unbridled joy at the 131st spring commencement exercises Friday, ushering in a new era at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The university's administration relaxed graduation-day rules and allowed honorees to de...

Abigail Chambers is a one-of-a-kind undergraduate at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. A candidate to graduate in the spring of 2019, Chambers is an agriculture education major - the lone student at UMES currently pursuing that degree path. S...

Dr. Carolyn B. Brooks, an award-winning educator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for more than three decades, will be formally named a faculty member emerita May 25 during the 2018 spring commencement. The Richmond, Va. native joined the ...

Senior Jahmai E. Holland will deliver the student commentary on behalf of her classmates at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's 2018 spring commencement exercises May 25. A panel of judges picked Holland, an accounting major from Landover, Md....

Dr. Sean Vasaitis, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has the distinction of being the only current member of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty with two U.S. Patents to his credit. The latest came in early February  for...

I had the opportunity this past April to attend the world's oldest air show - the Innovation and Leadership in Aviation exhibition in Berlin, Germany.  The 109-year-old event featuring the latest innovations in aviation and space travel had more than...

It was very unusual to see a goose nesting site in a high (foot) traffic area with no camouflage, but this is what two Canada geese decided to do just outside my office window in the Hytche Athletic Center. I had the unique opportunity to watch the p...

A medical research project Dr. Patrice L. Jackson-Ayotunde began seven years ago has earned the University of Maryland Eastern Shore pharmacy professor a U.S. Patent.  Jackson-Ayotunde received word April 3 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office t...

Lingering winter weather didn't hamper UMES golf management students from polishing their putting skills as they awaited the arrival of spring. That's because they've been practicing in the friendly confines of the PGA-accredited program's new academ...

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the state health department co-hosted a “Health Equity Summit” April 20 at the Henson Center that attracted some 140 participants. Inspired by National Minority Health Month, the day-long event was a joint...

Shanicia Hanson was about to move in November 2016 when she discovered graduation regalia from her undergraduate days at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. “As I was packing, I came across my cap and gown … and I asked (fiancé Cardel Louis-Jac...

A respected educator who spanned the transition from Maryland State College to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore during those challenging times will be honored May 25 at the 2018 spring commencement exercises. James A. Polk will be awarded a p...

Vasavi Veerapaneni was eight when she and her family moved to the United States from India.  She mastered a new language in the ensuing 11 years and is now on the verge of earning a degree in biology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Alo...

Caitlin Cecil LaComb returns April 5 to her alma mater to deliver the keynote address at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's 65th spring honors convocation.  Since graduating with honors in December 2014 with a bachelor's degree in general agr...

UMES junior Langston O. Frazier's nomination by Gov. Larry Hogan to serve on the University System of Maryland's governing board has received formal approval from the state senate. Frazier will represent 170,000 of his peers - including his 20-year-o...

James Biays Young spent a rich-and-full life collecting jazz recordings and books about “America's classical music,” and now the fruits of those twin obsessions are entrusted to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Before Young, a Baltimorean by...

Calvin G. Butler Jr., chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), will deliver the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's commencement address May 25 to the Class of 2018. Butler has been a utility company executive since 200...

Taryn B. Jones, a junior biochemistry major from Willingboro, N.J., will be the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's Newman Civic Fellow for the 2018-19 academic year. Jones is among 268 college students selected for the honor by Campus Compact, a ...

James Gordy, a seventh-grader at Somerset Intermediate School in Westover, bested 21 other competitors Saturday to win the 2018 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee. Gordy, who asked to be introduced as “Jake,” confidently plowed through 26 r...

A Curriculum Program Grant from Cotton Incorporated has been awarded to Dr. Sunidhi Mehta, an assistant professor in UMES' Department of Human Ecology. It will support research aimed at providing in-depth information to fashion merchandising students...

I had the opportunity this past summer to return to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts and conduct bio-geochemical research alongside Dr. David Nicholson and Hilary Palevsky, a post-doctoral student. As a rising junior in 2016, I too...

Mack Alston Jr. (class of 1971) was a devoted and committed Hawk who over the years made regular contributions to his alma mater's athletics program, the university's Annual Fund and other campus initiatives.  Alston passed away on Christmas Eve in 2...

Professional baseball spring training is underway and a new exhibit with multiple ties to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore opens Friday, Feb. 16, at the rebranded Salisbury Art Space in downtown Salisbury. “The Art and History of the Negro Le...

Dr. Juliette B. Bell announced today that she will step down as president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on June 30. Bell informed Chancellor Robert Caret, the University System of Maryland's governing board and the UMES Board of Visitor...

Two UMES undergraduates are among 30 university students the U.S. Department of Agriculture has picked to attend its 2018 Agricultural Outlook Forum through the USDA Student Diversity Program. Senior Tobechukwu "Toby" Opara and sophomore Alexis Doon ...

UMES men's golf coach Marshall Cropper is among six people in the Class of 2017 inducted into the Eastern Shore Golf Hall of Fame.  Cropper, who grew up in Accomack County, Va., is the first African-American to be so honored by the recognition progra...

The service learning trip to the Dominican Republic organized by the Richard A. Henson Honors Program that I took a year ago greatly impacted me and motivated me to experience it again this past January. One thing I took away from this experience is ...

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University have forged a new academic partnership capable of producing pharmacists in six years. The agreement creating a “cooperative undergraduate/professional program” will streamline instruct...

¡Hola! I am a strong believer that learning never stops. Though school was not in session in January, breaks are prime opportunities to pursue your interests and get outside your comfort zone. For the past two winter breaks, I have used that free tim...

A clothing drive UMES' PGA golf management students conducted in 2017 has received national recognition by a philanthropy founded by golf pros that collects and passes on recycled apparel to the needy. UMES students' efforts in rounding up nearly 500...