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UMES, beating the odds In a time of national economic despair and marked uncertainty, UMES delights in a record enrollment, increasing 3.4 percent over fall 2008, a rise in average SAT scores for entering freshmen and marked improvement in retention. Boasting an enrollment in excess of 4,400 students, a growth trend that began fall 2006, UMES is also experiencing an increase, equaling some 33 points over the last two years, in average SAT scores for the entering class. In addition, retention rates have improved some four points over last year’s 66 percent, all while the 123 year-old institution continues to raise funds for scholarships at a level unparalleled in its history. “UMES remains true to its mission, undaunted in its efforts to provide a high quality education to students committed to earning a degree,” said President Thelma B. Thompson. “Increased enrollment, coupled with an increase in average SAT scores and an increase in retention rates attest to the fact that UMES is positioning itself as one of this nation’s premier HBCUs. I want to thank the faculty and staff who have worked to achieve these results; and the University System of Maryland for the challenge.” Founded in 1886, UMES is home to one of the most diverse student bodies of the 114 HBCUs in the U.S. Achieving record enrollments of over 4,000 students in the past three years, the latest release of America’s Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report ranks UMES in the top tier of historically black colleges. In addition, its innovative PGA certified Professional Golf Management program, stand-alone engineering and ODDS / continued on page 7
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UMES president receives key to the city of Princess Anne
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UMES President Thelma B. Thompson, received the key to Princess Anne during the opening convocation at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts on the UMES campus. “The Town of Princess Anne hereby designates the week of September 13 as ‘UMES Appreciation Week,’” said Frank White, president, Princess Anne Town Commissioners. The declaration was made in support of the university’s 123rd birthday celebration. Subsequently, the key to the city was extended to Thompson in acknowledgement of the many responsibilities that keep her traveling and working late. White said that he and his fellow commissioners wanted to make sure the president could always get back in the city, regardless of her travels and her hours. UMES was founded September 13, 1886, and Dr. Thompson became the thirteenth president of the institution on July 1, 2002. December 2002, she was given a key to Ocean City. For the occasion, then mayor James Mathias Jr. stated that the key was given in acknowledge of all the educational opportunities UMES has given to the hospitality industry in the city.
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Honoring the Ancestors: African Art and Artifacts By Anke Van Wagenberg, Mosely Gallery director and an instructor of art history at UMES
“Honoring the Ancestors: African Art and Artifacts,” an exhibition of over 170 art objects from a collection founded and curated by Christopher Harrington, associate professor, UMES, opens on Thursday, October 15, with a reception from 4-6 p.m. and an introduction to the collection from 4-4:30 p.m. in the Mosely Gallery at the university. The exhibit remains on display through Friday, December 4. For the past 15 years, Harrington has researched and collected works from West and Central Africa, the areas from which most African-Americans can trace their ancestry. The exhibition includes objects ranging from a 4-inch ivory figure by the Chokwe to a massive 8-foot-tall wood mask from Burkina Faso. The variety of media as well as artistic creativity and craftsmanship on display represent cultures that in some cases date back thousands of years. To organize the myriad of objects, Harrington has opted to categorize items not by ethnic group or location but by their function in their original society. This approach allows viewers to see side-by-side how several different cultures approach the same theme. Even this approach is not perfect, because there is a great deal of overlap. Some masks, for example, are used for multiple purposes, such as those made by the Songye, and others have had their usage change over Title: Kota-Smiling time like those made by the Salampasuma. The show reliquary-brass
will be organized into seven categories: honoring the ancestors, celebrating, maintaining order, protecting, initiating and demonstrating wealth and authority, and finally, functional objects. The exhibition, drawn from Harrington’s Virtual Museum of African Diaspora (www.V-MAD.org), offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the rich cultures of West and Central Africa by viewing the actual objects. Harrington hopes to one day donate the items in Title: Tsangi white mask-wood the collection, in part or as a whole, to UMES. He has been assisted in his efforts to create this exhibition by David Price, assistant curator; Angel Timmons, collections assistant; Kason Washington, collections assistant; Chris Clark; Darius Corry; and Jeanaye Wright, all students at the university. This show was made possible with the support of the Maryland State Arts Council and the Somerset County Arts Council. The Mosely Gallery, located in the Arts and Technology Center on the UMES campus, is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Class tours are by appointment. For more information, call 410651-7770, by e-mail gallery@umes.edu or visit www.umes.edu/mosely/. Title: Baga-Bird (a-Bump) Polychromed wood
By Bruce Moore, intern, Office of Public Relations
Mills and trombonist Virgil Boysaw, were selected to perform in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Student All-Star Big Band, which performed at the Schomburg Library in Harlem, N.Y. This year’s band has grown. There are new members in the trumpet section, trombone section, saxophone section and the rhythm section. The band is slated to perform at numerous venues this semester. On Saturday, October 17, they will be in Easton, Md., on Sunday, October 18, they will perform at the Salisbury Wine Festival, and on Thursday, October 29, they will be in Ocean City, Photo by Jim Glovier Md. According to Lamkin, this year the band is “focusing on a new, more contemporary sound that I’m sure our audiences will enjoy.” The Jazz Ensemble fall concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-651-6571.
Jazz Ensemble presents annual fall concert
The UMES Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. John R. Lamkin II, will perform its annual fall concert at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 9, at 7 p.m. The band will be performing several arrangements from a variety of jazz genres including traditional bebop, swing and contemporary jazz. “The Chicken,” “What Is Hip,” “Ask Me Now” and Stevie Wonder’s “Too High” are several of the pieces that the ensemble will perform. According to Lamkin, the selections he chose for the band this semester are “historically significant as well as academically sound.” Lamkin said, “Once the students have mastered the musical and technical challenges of the arrangements, such as those found in ‘The Chicken,’ they will become better players.” Last spring, two stellar members of the jazz ensemble, trumpeter Kyle
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UMES announced the recent appointment of two new members, Gladys Goslee and Alicia Hoffman, to the Board of Visitors for a threeyear term on the recommendation of President Thelma B. Thompson. Goslee is a retired Wicomico County teacher. She taught French at Parkside High School until 2001. During her career in education, she was recognized as the 1999 Wicomico County Teacher of the Year and a Maryland State finalist. Goslee received the 1995 Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher Gladys Goslee award by the Maryland Foreign Language Association and was awarded The Friend of Children and The Friend of Education. She currently works contractually with the Wicomico County Board of Education as a mentor for new teachers. Her involvement in the community is extensive. She is a corporate and past board member of the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore. She is a member of Delta Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Sorority, the Princess Anne Chapter of The Links Inc., The Order of Eastern Star and The Order of The Golden Circle. She received her bachelor’s degree in teaching in English and French from Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C. She attended Hampton University, Virginia State University, Institutes of Foreign study and the University of Maryland College Park for graduate studies. She and her husband reside in Salisbury. Although Hoffman is new to the Board of Visitors, she is not new to
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New Board of Visitors members recently appointed UMES, as she served five years on the University System of Maryland Board of Regents as the Eastern Shore representative. Hoffman served on the Maryland Higher Education Commission from 2004-05. Before retiring in 1998, she served as senior executive in the U.S. Department of Education. Her previous positions include director of school improvement programs in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs; deputy assistant Alicia Hoffman secretary for civil rights; and director of the Horace Mann Center, where she managed career development programs for Department of Education employees, including senior executives. As a result of her impressive career, Hoffman is the recipient of the Senior Executive Presidential Rank Award, the highest performance award of the U.S. Civil Service, and she was listed among the 25 Top Latinas in Education in the U.S. by Hispanic Magazine in 2005. She earned a Master of Education degree in foreign language teaching and linguistics from the University of Maryland College Park. She resides in Dorchester County where she is a member of the Arts Center Board. The purpose of the Board of Visitors is to advance the mission of the university by providing advice to the president on issues related to community relations, institutional development, governmental issue and alumni affairs.
UMES faculty and students involved in material science research UMES faculty member Dr. Mark Williams recently completed his fifth stint at the Materials for Information Technology (MINT) Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to perform research in theoretical and computational physics under the umbrella of material science. Over the years, Williams’ research collaboration has resulted in several presentations at international conferences and in research papers published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Physics. According to Williams, this year’s research Dr. Mark Williams, involved the modification of chromium dioxide associate professor, (CrO2) by replacing 25 percent of the Department of chromium (Cr) atoms by manganese (Mn), Mathematics and Computer Science, is iron (Fe), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) atoms involved in material in an effort to increase the Curie temperature science research funded of the resulting metal. by the NSF. Photo by Jim Glovier At the culmination of the research, a paper, “Effect of 3-D-transition metal substitution on the electronic
properties of CrO2 by Williams, Hunter Sims, Dipanjan Mazumdar and William Butler, was submitted by the research team for the Joint Intermagnetics and Magnetism and Magnetic Materials conference being held in Washington, D.C., in 2010. The paper has been accepted for both presentation and for publication at a later date. Funding for the research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. “As a further benefit of this work, I have enabled three of our undergraduate students to Angelique Montgomery, participate in the Research Experience for UMES mathematics Undergraduates (REU) program,” said major, is involved in the Williams. “Angelique Montgomery, a major in REU program. Photo by Jim Glovier mathematics, worked this past summer with Dr. Tim Mewes, assistant professor of physics at the University of Alabama, on developing computer simulations of various micro-magnetic phenomena. Dr. Mewes was very impressed with her work and has asked her to return next summer. This work is also funded by NSF.”
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UMES Education majors attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund program Photos by Matthew Whittiker
A group of UMES education majors were selected to join some 23 fellows attending the inaugural Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) Teacher Quality and Retention Summer Institute. The four-week institute, held at the University of Santa Clara in California’s Silicon Valley, was part of a STEM initiative to put pre-service teachers through intensive training prior to employment in underserved schools in the nation this fall. The university’s representatives were Lisa Chance, a graduate student pursuing her Master of Arts in Teaching, mathematics education; Phylicia Gibbs, a senior undergraduate student majoring in mathematics education; Austin Hill, a senior majoring in business education; and Jennifer Phylicia Gibbs Lisa Chance Kenney, a senior majoring in technology education. The summer institute was one of four held this past summer to train and mentor 10,000 new minority teachers over the next five years from the 47 HBCUs. Of the students attending, 30 percent were STEM majors, while 40 percent were African-American males. “Our ultimate goal is to ensure that of the 30,000 new teachers called for by the Obama administration for high-need schools, a large percentage will come from the diverse training grounds of HBCUs,” said Dwayne Ashley, president and CEO of the TMCF. “These institutions are uniquely positioned to drive improvements in our public education system.” The fellows will receive scholarships, continuing professional development and mentoring. According to the TMCF, their progress in the classroom will be tracked by a national advisory board for the next five years.
Student researchers recognized By Courtney Harned, Ag Communications
Latoiya Payton and Kimberly Cephas, student researchers at UMES, were honored recently at the 15th Biennial Research Symposium of the Association of Research Directors Inc., in Atlanta, Ga. Payton won first Latoiya Payton is awarded first place in the place in the human scihuman sciences oral papers division at the ences oral papers diviBiennial Research Symposium of the sion for her presentation Association of Research Directors Inc. titled, “The Social Comparison of Fashion Print Advertisements and Female College Students’ Body Image.” The study contributes to the understanding of how the mass media’s representation of the idealistic adult female affects the perceived body image and social comparison habits of women. Research results show that the culture of society influences college females’ body image perceptions through the social comparison of print advertisements. Payton conducted her research under the guidance of advisor Bridgett Clinton, lecturer in the Department of Human Ecology, UMES. Cephas brought home second place in the food safety, human nutrition and health oral papers division for her presentation titled, “Growth and Survival of Vibrio vulnificus in Postharvest American Oysters.” Vibrio vulnificus is the leading cause of reported human death in the U.S. associated with the consumption of marine and aquaculture molluscan shellfish. The intent of this research endeavor was to examine the growth and survival of V. vulnificus in shellstock American oysters under various storage temperatures relevant to industry and consumer handling practices. Cephas
conducted her research under the guidance of advisor Dr. Salina Parveen, associate professor at the Center for Food Science and Technology, UMES. The research symposium showcased research initiatives from all 1890 institutions. The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for interactions and knowledge sharing, as well as Kimberly Cephas received second place in the food safety, human nutrition and to build networks for exhealth oral papers division at the panded partnerships and to symposium. showcase the talents and achievements of the 1890 community. Ten faculty researchers and 15 students from the UMES School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, six undergraduate and nine graduate, presented research findings in five areas: renewable resources and environmental stewardship; small scale agriculture and rural development; emerging technologies; human sciences; and food safety, human nutrition and health. Student presentations and posters were judged competitively. Other students who, with the support of their advisors, presented research include Leonard Kibet, Brett Smith, Anish Chaudhuri, Matilda Madden, Xavier Henry, Meshack Mudoh, Tagelsir Mohamed, Bridget Hagens, Apsara Hettiarachi, Anthony Farrar, Adam Morris, Tiara Dunn and Byron Johnson. This year’s conference theme was “1890 Research: Sustainable Solutions for the 21st Century.” According to the department, UMES faculty and student researchers continue to strive to find sustainable solutions for the challenges our world faces.
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Students awarded Tom Joyner Single Parent Scholarships Denny’s Restaurant and the Tom Joyner Foundation have teamed up to provide the Single Parent Student Scholarship Program. Three more UMES students join two previously named for the $1,500 scholarship awards. The newly named recipients are Alysse Cottman, Tonia Parker and Terrell Taylor. Cottman is a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in biology. She is the mother of a 6month-old son, Jonathan. Upon completion of Cottman her bachelor’s in biology, she plans on pursuing a graduate degree and employment as a physician assistant. Parker is a 52-year-old freshman from Salisbury majoring in English education. Along with her full-time academic pursuits, she bears the responsibilities of being the single mother of five children, ages 11 to 33. Parker is also involved in her community as a district missionary for the city
of Salisbury. Her goal is to complete her degree before her youngest son, Monroe, graduates from high school. When she finishes her bachelor’s degree, she plans on pursuing a career as an English teacher. Taylor is a senior from Princess Anne majoring in sociology. Along with being a fulltime student, he is the single father of three children, Kevin, age 10; Taliyah, age 6; and Taylor Janiyah, age 5 months. Outside of raising a family and pursuing a bachelor’s degree, Taylor also finds time to be a member of the UMES Drama Society and the UMES intramural sports team. Upon graduation, he plans to seek employment as a guidance counselor. Currently, he volunteers as a substitute teacher at Princess Anne Elementary School.
One Maryland One Book tour stops at UMES UMES is one of nine stops in the state for The Maryland Humanities Council second annual One Maryland One Book tour, Maryland’s only statewide community reading program. James McBride’s novel, “Song Yet Sung,” set on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was chosen as the 2009 title. McBride visits the university on Wednesday, October 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Student Services Center Theater. McBride, an award-winning author, composer and screenwriter, is also the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, “The Color of Water,” and the novel, “Miracle at St. Anna,” which was recently made into a film directed by Spike Lee. “Song Yet Sung” by James McBride features the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1850s for its backdrop. Centering around the Dreamer, an escaped slave with the power to see the future, it is a spellbinding tale of slavery, slave hunters, the Underground Railroad and the mysterious code that slaves used to pass information. It is based soundly on historical events and figures like ruthless slave trader Patty Cannon, and is of great local interest,” said Jennifer Neumyer, special collections and outreach librarian, Frederick Douglass Library, UMES. “I am delighted. It has to be one of the proudest moments of my career,” said McBride on hearing of the selection of “Song Yet Sung” as Maryland’s book for 2009. “The fact that the book was chosen by native Marylanders means all that much more. Like many Americans, I had no idea that the Eastern Shore of Maryland was the gateway to freedom for so many; nor did I realize the depth and complexity of relationships that existed between blacks and whites at that time, all of which were played out in Maryland.” In addition to the tour, every Maryland jurisdiction will participate in One Maryland One Book by holding local programs during the month of
October at libraries, colleges and universities, high schools, museums and bookstores. There will be over 100 events around the state, including book discussions, living history performances, author appearances and writing workshops. Updated information will be posted on the One Maryland One Book calendar at www.onemarylandonebook.org. One Maryland One Book is designed to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book and participating in book-centered discussions and other related programming. The author’s visit to UMES is sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council, UMES’ Frederick Douglass Library and the Princess Anne Public Library. For more information on the One Maryland One Book author visit at UMES, call 410-651-7696. The event is free and open to the community.
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Hawk Talk: A weekly recap of UMES Athletics For complete recaps, results and news of Hawk athletics, visit www.umeshawks.com. By Maggie Hayon, sports information assistant, and the Office of Media Relations, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
VOLLEYBALL The volleyball team hosted Norfolk State and Sacred Heart at the William P. Hytche Athletic Center for CROSS COUNTRY the Hampton Inn-Salisbury Cross country hosted North Invitational on their second meet of the Saturday, September 26. season with the Cappy UMES got a team-high Anderson Invitational on eight kills from sophomore September 19. The men’s Christine Edwards team placed eighth out of (Lakewood, Calif.), but it 11 teams with 238 points wasn’t enough as the Hawks and an average team time fell 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25of 31:28.35 in the eight21) to Sacred Heart. kilometer race. Edwards added 10 digs for Junior Peter Sang UMES and senior Caylin (Kapsabet, Kenya) placed Woodward (Garden Grove, first for UMES and 28th Calif.) tallied 13. overall with a time of The loss for the Hawks 26:20.67, which was his was the first in its home best of the season so far. opener at the Hytche Center Fellow junior Amon since November 9, 2006 to Kiprotich (Kapsabet, Women’s volleyball honored Whitney Johnson and Caylin Woodward on their career 1,000 Morgan State, a 16-match kills for UMES. Pictured from left to right are: Alissah Reed, manager; Don Metil, head coach; span. They moved to 9-6 Kenya) had a time of Johnson; Woodward; Bella Estebane, graduate assistant and Eric Hammond, assistant 27:19.35, which was on the season. coach. good for 51st overall. The Woodward recorded next UMES finisher was 10 kills, 11 digs and seven senior Solomon Kirongo (Nairobi, Kenya) with an 84th overall finish assists as the Hawks swept Norfolk State 3-0 (25-23, 25- 20, 25-12) to with a time of 29:23.71. close the tournament. With the win, UMES improved to 10-6. Junior Paul Jones-Burden (Rahway, N.J.) was 101st overall with a Senior Whitney Johnson (Prince Frederick, Md.) tallied 12 kills and time of 36:07.82. Freshman Terrance Burns (Franklinville, N.J.) and two digs and redshirt junior Samantha Chukwura (Brooklyn, N.Y.) had senior James Moore (Manassas, Va.) were 104th and 105th, respectively, eight kills and a .409 hitting percentage. The Hawks outhit the Spartans, with times of 38:10.20 and 38:47.12. Sophomores Damian Miles .293-.179. Edwards registered seven kills, five digs and three aces. (Teaneck, N.J.) and Jermol Dix (Catonsville, Md.) had times of 38:50.46 Freshman Bella Jade Romero (Arlington, Texas) had a match-high 34 and 38:50.61, respectively, which were good for 106th and 107th places. assists. The women’s team placed sixth out of nine teams with 137 points and an average team time of 21:15.13 in the five-kilometer race. UPCOMING COMPETITIONS Senior Celia Whyte (Manchester, Jamaica) finished 28th overall and first for UMES with a time of 20:04.04. Sophomore Cynthia Anais (Paris, CROSS COUNTRY Competes in the Delaware Invitational on Sat., Oct. 17, in Newark, France) and junior Eunice Jones (Lanham, Md.) followed right behind Del., at 10 a.m. Whyte for 29th and 30th places with respective times of 20:10.45 and 20:11.42. VOLLEYBALL Sophomore Jessica Abrantes (Scotch Plains, N.Y.) ran a time of Takes on Delaware State in a conference match in Dover, Del., on 22:16.25, which was good for 51st overall. Emalie Ducades and freshman Sun., Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. Kenesha Abrams (Brooklyn, N.Y.) came in 58th and 59th places with times of 23:33.49 and 23:38.62, respectively. The next UMES finisher was Hosts a home conference match against Hampton on Fri., Oct. 16, at freshman Jennell Wade (White Plains, Md.) in 65th place with a time of 6 p.m. 24:52.60. Sophomore Monique Hawkins (Randallstown, Md.) and freshman Courtney Gray (Frederick, Md.) came in 72nd and 73rd places Travels to Baltimore to compete against Coppin State on Sun., Oct. with respective times of 27:55.10 and 28:56.48. 18, at 7 p.m. and Washington, D.C., to compete against Howard on Fri., Oct. 23, at 7 p.m., both conference matches.
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Drama Society presents fall theater production An adaptation of “Fences,” an award-winning play by African-American playwright August Wilson, will be performed at UMES by the university’s Drama Society. The performances take place Wednesday, October 28, through Saturday, October 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. A round table discussion follows the October 29 performance. Awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, “Fences” is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-play series, the “Pittsburg Cycle.” The plays mix comedy and drama to depict racial discrimination experienced by African-Americans in the twentieth century. Each is set in a different decade. “‘Fences’ is Wilson's most-anthologized play,” said Dr. Dean Cooledge, assistant professor, UMES Department of English and Modern Languages, a participant in the upcoming round table discussion. “The themes are ones to which we can all relate. Wilson foregrounds domestic relationships: husband and wife, father and son, brothers and friends. In this play he shows us the sacrifices that we have to make to maintain these relationships.” “Many talented students arrive on campus each semester and it’s a joy for me to work with them,” said Dr. Dameron-Johnson, director of drama and assistant professor of English and Modern Languages. “This semester we have many new faces as a part of the University Theater Series, and I believe the audience won’t be disappointed.” Tickets will be available at the door. Prices are $5 for the general public, $3 for senior citizens and $2 for UMES students. For more information, call 410-651-6575.
Thompson hosts inaugural convocation for new students at UMES
UMES President Invites Campus To Celebrate Friendship
UMES’ convocation for new students was held Thursday, October 1, in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts to welcome the students to the campus. Serving as the 2009 Bernstein Lecturer, Dr. E. Faye Photo by Jim Glovier Williams Esq., was the keynote speaker at the request of President Thompson for the inaugural event. As such, she is charged with empowering UMES students and faculty by promoting excellence and encouraging outstanding performance. In a previous address at the university’s opening convocation, Williams spurred on UMES faculty saying, “Their [students’] learning is your responsibility. Don’t accept rudeness, stretch their imagination and stretch their horizons.” She is recognized internationally for her positive, powerful and convincing presentations. She has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and served as a talk show host for a number of years on “Focus on the African World” on Radio One. She is president and CEO of Natural Health Option.
President Thompson has designated Thursday, October 15, as Friendship Day, a day inspired by the friendships she enjoys with a diverse group of people. Instituted in the fall of 2002, Thompson has made the occasion an annual event for the UMES campus. UMES students, faculty and staff can enjoy candy, flowers and poems in the Student Services Center rotunda from noon to 2 p.m. Friendship-grams can be posted on the campus website.
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pharmacy programs, and a 20-acre renewable energy project has brought the institution national recognition. “We are very excited about our continued enrollment growth; especially the increasing average SAT scores of our newly enrolled students. The Office of Admissions and Recruitment received more than 3,000 applications for an entering class of about 1,000 new and transfer students. In fact, this is one of the most diverse and academically talented entering classes ever enrolled in the history of UMES! The Office of Admissions and Recruitment, with the support of the entire campus community has done a great job managing all of those wonderful applications. Moving forward, we’re expecting continued success in attracting quality students with strong SAT scores and outstanding grades to enroll at UMES for fall 2010.”
UMES offers a variety of baccalaureate programs in the arts and sciences as well as professional studies. Signature undergraduate majors include aviation science and engineering, construction management technology, and hotel and restaurant management. Master of Science degrees are offered in applied computer science and a number of education disciplines, including agricultural and extension education, guidance and counseling, physical education and special education. Doctoral degree programs are offered in physical therapy, marine-estuarine and environmental sciences, organizational leadership, educational leadership and pharmacy. Over the last five years, 22 programs have been accredited or re-accredited, reinforcing the institution's academic reputation.
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*Unless stipulated, all events listed are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information, call 410-651-6669 or 410-651-6571.
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JAZZ ENSEMBLE FALL CONCERT 7 p.m. / Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts FALL MIDTERM STUDIO-CLASS RECITAL 11 a.m. / Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts OPENING RECEPTION 4-6 p.m. Honoring the Ancestors: African Art and Artifacts Mosely Gallery ART EXHIBITION 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon. through Fri. Honoring the Ancestors: African Art and Artifacts Mosely Gallery
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*UNIVERSITY THEATRE SERIES 7:30 p.m. / Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts $5 general public, $3 senior citizens, $2 UMES students
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ROGER R. BLUNT LECTURE SERIES 11 a.m. / Student Services Center Theater
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FALL FAMILY RECITAL 11 a.m. Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts UMES GOSPEL CHOIR FALL REVIVAL 7 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center UMES GOSPEL CHOIR CONCERT 5 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center
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