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Online degrees the next frontier for UMES and distance education office. Prior to that, she was a principal investigator of federal distance education research for the military for eight years. Her new position, acting director of UMES Online, is funded with a federal Title III grant. At UMES, she’ll team with Robin Hoffman, who recently was appointed director of his alma mater’s Center for Instructional Technology. Having an online academic presence is a top priority for UMES President Juliette Bell, who wants the university to employ creative, proven
Dr. Kristine Anderson has joined UMES’ Division of Academic Affairs to spearhead an aggressive expansion of online instruction for students looking for distance-education options. Anderson previously worked at Mount Aloysius College in Pennsylvania, where starting in 2011, she directed the private institution’s online
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Md. Congresswoman’s “2014 HBCU STEM Tour” makes a stop at UMES
Shore,” Edwards said. “We must engage women and minorities in the STEM fields so that they can compete and excel in a 21st century, global Rep. Donna F. Edwards, who represents economy. Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties in “It was great to see Congress, paid a visit to UMES in late January as this taking place on part of her “2014 HBCU STEM Tour.” Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Edwards met with university President In the coming months, I Juliette B. Bell, and toured UMES’s 17-acre solar will be working with my energy collection facility, the Child and Family colleagues on the Science Development Center and a flight simulation lab Committee to advance used by aviation science students. legislation that invests in As a senior member of the House Science, STEM education and Space, and Technology Committee, Edwards is Edwards toured the university’s flight simulation lab (shown), solar promotes innovative visiting historically black institutions to gain farm and the Child and Family Development Center. approaches to preparing insight on how best to engage women and our young people for careers in the sciences,” the congresswoman said. minorities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields – Bell, her cabinet of advisors and senior academic leaders gathered collectively known as the “STEM” disciplines. before the tour to brief Edwards on what she could anticipate seeing during “I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand the important work being done by President Bell and the University of Maryland Eastern CONGRESSWOMAN continued on page 4
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Page 3 USDA Contest Honda Competition
Page 4 Lecture Compliments Read-in International Visitors
Page 5 Page 6 HRM Has New Name Athletics Campus Kitchen Dual Enrollment Agreement
Page 7 Gourmet Lunch Schedule Mosely Exhibition MADE Kick-off
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White House administrator to headline UMES’ 2014 research event
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Dr. George Cooper, executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, will be the 2014 keynote speaker at UMES’ 5th annual Regional Research Symposium. The all-day event, which attracts researchers from the mid-Atlantic and beyond, will be held April 17 in the Student Services Center ballroom. Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, UMES’ dean of Graduate Studies who launched the symposium to focus attention on research by the university’s faculty and its graduate students, said the graduate school is honored to have Cooper as a guest on campus. “Our symposium has grown in reputation and popularity each year, and having Dr. Cooper participate certainly signals it is increasingly being viewed as an important event,” Keane-Dawes said. Graduate schools across the University System of Maryland encourage participation in the research activity at UMES because it is a focal point of the state’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, which builds alliances among state institutions to increase graduation of under-represented
Welcome alumni!
Friday, Feb. 14 / Noon to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 15 / 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Student Services Center Allen J. Singleton Multipurpose Room Check in and register for all of the weekend’s alumni activities. Alumni goodie bags and light refreshments available. Visit the HAWKS Alumni Page on Facebook (UMES Hawkalumni) or stop by Alumni Central for a complete list of events. Sponsored by Office of Alumni Affairs (410) 651-7606
minorities in science and related disciplines. “Fostering Interdisciplinary Research and Education through Collaboration” is this year’s theme. President Barack Obama appointed Cooper to his post in September 2013. A former president of S.C. State University, a sister 1890 land-grant institution, Cooper came to the White House from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, where as a senior fellow he reviewed key federal legislative initiatives significant to HBCUs. Cooper spent 17 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. He has also served in administrative and faculty roles at Alabama A&M University and Tuskegee University. Dr. Audrey Trotman, Lead Program and Policy Analyst at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Educational Partnership Program also will be a symposium participant, Keane-Dawes said. The federal agency is a key partner with UMES in a number of ongoing research initiatives.
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Two UMES students are among 30 from across the nation invited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to attend the agency’s 2014 Agricultural Outlook Forum later this month. Chelsea Grainger, a senior from Damascus, Md. majoring in general agriculture, is one of 20 invitees chosen on the basis of essays addressing the theme: "Agriculture as a Career." Adebola (Kemi) Daramola of Nigeria was among 10 graduate students selected for her responses to "The Greatest Challenge Facing Agriculture over the Next Five Years." "The future of agriculture and rural America depends on the upcoming generation of leaders in farming, ranching and conservation, and the students selected to attend the Agricultural Outlook Forum are among the best young leaders our country has to offer," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. Grainger said that although many view agriculture as a “simple, arbitrary field” it is actually “unique and complex” as it encompasses life science, genetics, microbiology, plant science and animal science. “All of the aspects of agriculture overlap and play an important role in production, food safety, our future and global sustainability,” she said. Grainger intends to pursue a career in veterinary science. Agriculture, she said in her essay, is an important career “whether it be a practice to care for and treat animals, or research to find more efficient methods of care.” USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program is designed to introduce students to contemporary agribusiness, future trends, scientific research, and agricultural policy in today's real world environment. The students are from landgrant, Hispanic-serving, and non land-grant agricultural and renewable resources universities. "Participating in the forum will expose these students to a variety of perspectives on this country's most pressing agricultural challenges and lay the groundwork for bright futures in food, fiber and forestry," Vilsack said. Daramola sees “an increase in the acquisition of large areas of land in developing countries by various interest groups from developed countries” as the greatest challenge facing global agriculture over the next five years. The entities involved in “land grabbing” (a derogatory term used for the practice), she said, “often ignore that these small (parcels) of land are a means of livelihood for the poor in the developing countries.” Her essay states that as a student at a land-grant university, she has been impressed with the way American universities and industries work with rural, small land owners to provide agricultural education, research and extension in developing countries. Since the student diversity program's start in 2007, annual sponsorship has been provided by CHS, Inc. and Farm Credit. USDA's Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service, and Natural Resources Conservation Service also provide support. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore partners with USDA to make the program possible.
UMES’ Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Club members, from left, are: Jonathan Wheeler, Evan Bryant, Mariah Dennis, Jonathan Weary, Michel’le White, Courtney Rhoades, Aleaya Bowie and Jenny Porch. Rhoades, Bowie and Porch will compete in this weekend’s qualifying tournament in Baltimore.
While America’s athletes are going for the gold in Sochi, a trio of of UMES students will be competing in trials for an “Olympics of the mind,” the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge. The event takes place Saturday, Feb. 15 at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The Honda Campus All-Star Challenge is a game of quick recall for students of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Now in its 25th year, more than $7 million in grants have been awarded by Honda to participating HBCUs and nearly 100,000 students in 22 states have participated. “I am proud to say that UMES has made the cut twice in this competition,” said Dr. James White, team coach and UMES’ associate vice president of student affairs and enrollment management. “We intend to compete in this preliminary round and earn a spot to represent UMES with Hawk Pride at the National Championship Tournament in Los Angeles in April.” Forty-eight teams from qualifying tournaments will advance to the National Championship, White said. Over $300,000 is at stake this year, with the champion HBCU earning a $50,000 grant. The 48-team field will be announced Feb. 20 during a live webcast. “Honda would like to wish good luck to all the HCASC teams attempting to qualify for the National Championship tournament this weekend. The journey started at the beginning of the school year and has included long hours of hard work, practice and study, in addition to your regular academic course load,” said Stephan Morikawa, assistant vice president for corporate community relations, American Honda.
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Lecture compliments African-American Read-In Learn more about Octavia Butler, the late African-American science fiction writer who described herself as "comfortably asocial, a hermit in the middle of Seattle, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former-Baptist, an oiland-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." Dr. Gregory Hampton, an associate professor of African-American literature at Howard University, visits the UMES campus Feb. 19 for a 4 p.m. lecture in the Frederick Douglass Library, auditorium as part of the AfricanAmerican Read-In. Hampton is the author of “Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens and Vampires,” the first book which examines the complete body of fiction by Butler. Butler, who was dyslexic (a reading disability), grew up in a struggling Pasadena, Calif. neighborhood, where she began writing at age 10. She is known for many novels including: “Kindred,” “Lilith's Brood,” “Fledgling,” and the “Parable” and the “Patternist” series. Her writing earned her the Hugo (World Science Fiction Society) and Nebula awards (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America). In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, or “Genius Grant” awarded annually to those who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." UMES students participating in the African-American ReadIn Feb. 19, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. can read one of five books by Butler or choose from a large selection of other African-American authors. Those who read for at least an hour are eligible to earn a raffle ticket for prize drawings at 11 p.m. Students can check in for the event on the second floor of the library at the special collections desk. “Read for more than an hour and get multiple tickets for chances to win,” said Jennifer Neumyer, special collections and outreach librarian at the Frederick Douglass Library. Also, don’t miss a 5:30 p.m. lecture Feb. 20 in the Student Services Center Theater by Dr. Dale Green, chair of the Historic Preservation Program and assistant professor of architecture at Morgan State University. Green will discuss his team’s unearthing of Talbot County’s “The Hill,” potentially the earliest and largest settlement of free blacks in America. The lecture is sponsored though the generous support of UMES Board of Visitors member John Allen of Delmarva Power.
International visitors reaffirm agreement with UMES TOP: Representatives from the Higher Institute of Agronomy Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Faranah (ISAVF) in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, recently visited campus to meet with UMES officials. Pictured, from left, are visiting delegation members El Hadji Mamadou Dian Diallo, director of external institutional relations and cooperation, ISAVF; Carol Stoney, director, program development, Winrock International (USA); Professor Sara Bailo Diallo, director general (university president), ISAVF; and UMES representatives Dr. Juliette B. Bell, president; Dr. Ronald Nykiel, provost and vice president of academic affairs; Kimberly Dumpson, Esq., executive vice president; and Dr. Emmanuel Acquah, director of international development programs. INSET: Professor Sara Bailo Diallo, ISAVF’s director general, and UMES President Juliette B. Bell, signed an agreement reaffirming the partnership between the two universities. An original linkage agreement was signed in 1999 to stimulate scientific cooperation, strengthen research and teaching; promote development in Guinea; broaden the international experience at UMES; and promote cross-cultural knowledge and understanding among students, faculty and staff of both institutions. CONGRESSWOMAN continued from cover
From left, Rep. Donna F. Edwards, (D4th), meets with UMES President Juliette B. Bell in late January during her “2014 HBCU STEM Tour.”
her visit, which also took her to stops in UMES’ biology department and health sciences. "As a biochemist and former research scientist, I am delighted to be at the helm of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where we have a strong focus on developing the next generation of science, technology, engineering, agriculture, and technology professionals to meet the workforce needs of the state, nation and world,” Bell said. “We applaud Congresswoman Edwards for her leadership and look forward to working with her to advance women and underrepresented minorities” in those fields, Bell said.
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UMES’ popular undergraduate major – Hotel and Restaurant Management – has a new name. Department chairman Dr. Ernest Boger told students last week the program will now be known as Hospitality and Tourism Management. “The change reflects what we actually do, what we program students for,” Boger said. The new name brings UMES in line with its peers, Boger noted, and addresses a long-standing observation by the Accreditation Commission on Programs in Hospitality Administration. When UMES’ program received the commission’s formal endorsement in 2008, the organization noted its name suggested a far more limited career scope than the existing curriculum projected. Accordingly, the faculty proceeded to lay the groundwork for a name change. However, a previous administration had other priorities, Boger said. So the program stuck with nomenclature that the chairman said was applicable a half-century ago, but is viewed today by educators and professionals in the field as outdated. “The great majority of our courses … apply to the broader industry and careers areas of hospitality and tourism,” Boger said. Indeed, recent UMES graduates in hotel restaurant management have found careers with industry stalwarts Sodexo, Aramark and Enterprise as well as the National Park Service, airlines and convention and visitors’ bureaus. UMES’ professional golf management degree combines an ability to play and teach competitive golf at a high level with training to manage the business aspects of a $60 billion industry, including PGA certified golf courses and their affiliated resorts. “It’s our way of embracing the entire hospitality and tourism industry,” Boger said, “and recognizing the broad spectrum of opportunities for students who complete their degrees here.” UMES is Maryland’s lone public college that offers a hospitality and tourism management degree. Boger believes the name change will enhance
the program’s reputation as “the state’s academic and intellectual specialist in the field.” With state-sanctioned gaming starting to blossom across Maryland, Boger said casino operators are looking for specially trained employees and want to hire home-grown professionals. “We feel that’s a niche we are ready — and prepared — to fill,” he said. “Hotels and restaurants are what we like to call the ‘physical plant’ of tourism. There’s so much more to the profession than bricks and mortar,” Boger said. The chairman said he’s heartened by support from his dean, Dr. Ayodele Alade, Provost Ronald Nykiel and President Juliette B. Bell. With the new name in place, Boger said the UMES faculty is exploring ways to broaden the hospitality-tourism curriculum, including development of a master’s degree. This past fall, Dr. Karl Binns Sr. oversaw a senior-year capstone project in which three teams of students collaborated on presentations aimed at analyzing and developing a prospective tourism expansion strategy for the Town of Princess Anne. Binns and Boger say that idea is just scratching the surface of hands-on instruction the department is looking to utilize beyond the traditional hotel and restaurant sector. “When I first heard about the name change I was uneasy,” senior Samantha J. Lord said. “I didn't know what changes this would bring to our department, or how it would affect our students.” “I’m now excited, however, to see what new changes our Hospitality and Tourism Management title will bring,” she said, “As it broadens what we really do, I'm hoping to see an increase in tourism classes and I can't wait to see how this will bring our department to another level.”
UMES students involved in Campus Kitchens at the Universities at Shady Grove volunteer each month to fight hunger in Montgomery County. The students cook over 200 meals to support families receiving aid through The Dwelling Place, a local agency providing transitional housing and support services to the area’s homeless families with the goal of helping them achieve and maintain self-sufficiency. “The Campus Kitchens Project is completely student run,” said Ruth Lee, UMES’ director of hotel and tourism management at USG. “Students design the menu, cook the meals, organize driving schedules and deliver to the homes of participating families.” UMES hospitality and tourism management students attending the satellite campus in Rockville, Md., started a Campus Kitchen Project in 2007. The effort is part of a national organization, which partners with high schools
and institutions of higher education to “share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias and engage students as volunteers who prepare and deliver meals to the community.” The UMES group also sponsors other fundraising activities to sustain and grow its community-based partnership program, she said. Students will host an inaugural fundraiser titled, “Dining with the Chefs,” April 21, at 6 p.m. in the USG multi-purpose room. Montgomery County chefs will visit the Shady Grove classroom to demonstrate preparation of some of their menu items. The students, in turn, will prepare those dishes for their mentors (the chefs) and attendees as part of a multi-course tasting menu at the fundraiser. Chef Ype Von Hengst, co-founder and executive chef of the Silver Diner chain of restaurants, will be the evening’s keynote speaker. For more information, email diningwiththechefs@gmail.com.
Hotel Restaurant Management (program) gets a name makeover
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Hawks earn six top ten finishes at Armory Invitational Facing its toughest competition of the season, UMES’ indoor track team returned home from the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City this past weekend with a win and six top-10 finishes. The meet attracted track and field competitors from more than 100 institutions, including Clemson, Oklahoma and the University of South Florida. Freshman Khalil Rmidi Kinnini won the 3000 meters (Eastern) run with a time of 8:31.25, a personal best by 28 seconds. The performance marks Kinnini’s second win this academic year; he won the mile run at the UMES Coach O Invitational in December. In addition to those two wins, Khalil has earned three top 10 finishes this season in three different races — the mile run, the 3000 meter and the 5000 meter. Gayon Evans finished third in the women’s 60-meter finals with a time of 7.41 seconds. Evans already has qualified for the prestigious “IC4A” meet in early March with a finish of 7.34 seconds at the Coach O Invitational. She has racked up numerous top 10 finishes and three wins this year in the 60 meter and 200 meter dashes. Other top Hawk performers were: freshman Evelyn Chappell, 10th place in the high jump (1.63 meters); junior Dillon Simon, fourth place in the shot put (18.08 meters); freshman Jared Kerr, fourth place, long jump (7.35 meters); and the UMES men’s 4x400 relay, sixth place (3:18.10). The team was made up of freshmen Michael Johnson and Orwell Maylor and seniors Aaron Chatman and Kraig Webb.
UMES officials sign dual-enrollment agreement A formal agreement between UMES and Wicomico County is now in place that allows Wicomico’s high school juniors and seniors to take college-level classes as part of a dual enrollment initiative that “gives them a head start on finishing college in four years.” Joining Wicomico superintendent John Frederickson, seated left, and President Juliette B. Bell, were (from left) senior UMES administrators Bernita Sims-Tucker, Ronnie Holden, Ronald Nykiel, Anthony Jenkins and Michael A. Nugent, special projects coordinator in the university’s education department.
strategies aimed at growing enrollment. “UMES Online,” said Dr. Ronald Nykiel, UMES chief academic policymaker, “is now approaching offering 100 courses in an online format.” Anderson’s first priority is establishing an online foundation of academic programs targeting students at community and junior colleges – commonly referred to as the “2+2” path to a baccalaureate degree. Long-term, the university’s goal is to offer the option of earning select bachelor degrees, master’s degrees, doctorates and certificates online, Nykiel said. “We’re committed to doing what we can to meet the express needs of the market,” he said. Meanwhile, Anderson’s immediate focus is on developing a baseline of courses to deliver instruction in criminal justice, business and technology, hospitality and tourism, rehabilitation services and early childhood education along with general studies. The goal is rolling out online courses in those subjects by the 2014 fall semester. Anderson’s goals are to: • Create and provide the majority of the general core courses online so every student has access to courses in classrooms with limited space that tend to fill quickly; • Identify high-demand programmatic areas for 2+2 programs and create them for online delivery; • Create a highly competitive online cadre of 2+2 programs and fully online programs; • Assure every student has the support to be successful in an online environment. Anderson has more than a decade of instructional design experience, which Nykiel said stood out among candidates considered for the new position. She will be meeting with deans, department chairs and front-line faculty throughout the spring to outline how they can collaborate in helping UMES Online build capacity to deliver instruction online. “The UMES community, working collaboratively, is an essential component for the success of the future programs,” she said. The CIT lab in Wilson Hall (Room 1106), Anderson noted, “has opened its doors to encourage teamwork by hosting workshops, welcoming faculty drop-ins, and supporting the instructional development of courses.” She also has identified certification programs for future development, including: retail pharmacy management, senior living administration/management, cyber security, international relations/diplomacy, foreign languages, forensic social work, project management for small businesses and globalization (world-wide e-commerce). “We’ve got a lot of the pieces already in place here,” Anderson said. “I’m excited about where we can take this.”
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2014 SPRING GOURMET LUNCHEON SERIES 2/24
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Roasted salmon with tomato salsa
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Beef tenderloin with blue cheese and mushrooms
All tickets sold are on first come, first served basis and there will be no reservations taken by phone or by mail.
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Check or money order only made payable to UMES. (no cash/no refunds on ticket(s) purchased)
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Tickets will go on sale starting Thurs., Feb. 13 in Henson room 1118 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. After Feb. 13, you can purchase them in Henson room 2100 between 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday until tickets are sold out.
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Brown stew snapper with pineapple salsa
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HRM shrimp in garlic & cajun scallops
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Guava lamb chop with peach chutney
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Braise rabbit and mushroom in red wine sauce-Pear & parsnip soup
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Lunch will start at noon in the Richard A. Henson Center, Bailey Thomas room 1121.
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Beef tenderloin stuffed with shrimp
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Pan roasted rockfish with rissole potatoes – chicken soup
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Creole crab cake with seafood ratatouille
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T-bone steak with mélange peppercorns
In order to accommodate a wide variety of community patrons, individual ticket sales are limited to: one transaction per person with a maximum of 10 tickets only. If you would like to purchase additional tickets, you must get back in line.
New male retention initiative gets underway Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Anthony Jenkins shared the vision of the Men Achieving Dreams Through Education initiative with an audience of UMES male students Feb 6 at a kick-off event. The MADE mission is to “empower, inspire and encourage the personal growth and development of our campus men.” Led by Clifton Harcum, coordinator for male initiatives, MADE will host activities and workshops throughout the semester to promote academic, social, and professional success. Paul Butler, a WBOC TV-16 news anchor, gave the keynote address. First gentlemen of UMES, Willie Bell, gave the closing remarks.
AfricanAmerican Art Exhibit opens at Mosely Works from the David C. Driskell Center on display through March 14
Louis Delsarte, an accomplished painter, printmaker, muralist and illustrator, discusses his piece, “No Place Like Home,” on display in an exhibit on loan from the David C. Driskell Center in College Park, Md. Delsarte earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. and the University of Arizona, respectively. Known for his illusionist-style, his works can be seen in museums across the country. A 2001 mural, “Transitions” is located at Brooklyn’s Church Street subway station. A U.S. Postal Service stamp features his painting depicting the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. He is currently a professor of fine arts at Moorehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. Senior Viair Myles and junior Kortne Smith, both human ecology majors, contemplate “African Women, Windows,” one of the nine artworks by David C. Driskell. Some 30 pieces of African-American art spanning eight decades with varying themes, styles and types of media are on display in the Mosely Gallery located in the Thomas Briggs Arts and Technology building on the UMES campus. Twenty artists are represented in the show.
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ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT *Unless stipulated, all events listed are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Events are subject to change. For the most updated information, call the numbers listed or visit www.umes.edu/events.
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Homecoming Step Show* 6-9 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. and close at 8 p.m.
William P. Hytche Athletic Center Greek organizations display their skills in the art of stepping. $10 general admission; $12 at the door 410-651-6434
Hall of Fame Induction* 6-9 p.m. Student Services Center Ballroom
$60 general admission; $50 current Hall of Famers 410-651-6496
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Join Dr. Juliette B. Bell for breakfast accompanied by inspirational words and music. $35 general admission. 410-651-6102
Black History Month Lecture 3 p.m. Mosely Gallery
David Driskell, an African-American artist, scholar and collector, speaks. 410-651-7770
Homecoming Party* 10 p.m.-2 a.m./ Doors close at midnight
Show your Hawk Love
William P. Hytche Athletic Center $20 general admission; $25 at the door; $15 UMES students with ID. 410-651-6434
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Parade 10-11:30 a.m. Somerset Ave., Princess Anne Join Harry the Hawk, the Thunderin’ Hawks Pep Band, UMES Cheerleaders, Diamonds, and other university groups. Call 410-651-6277 for entry forms.
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William P. Hytche Athletic Center Homecoming games vs Howard University. $25 includes both games - free for UMES students with ID. 410-651-7747 or UMEStickets.com
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African-American Read-in 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Frederick Douglass Library UMES students only. Read for a least an hour to qualify for prize drawings. 410-651-7696
June 10 Art Shell UMES Junior Tournament
Black History Month Lecture 4 p.m. Frederick Douglass Library Auditorium Dr. Greg Hampton of Howard University lectures on the late Octavia Butler, a renowned African-American science fiction writer. 410-651-7696
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June 11 Art Shell UMES Celebrity Golf Classic
Black History Month Lecture 5:30 p.m. Student Services Center Theater Prof. Dale Green of Morgan State speaks on “The Hill,” a significant African-American archeology site in Easton, Md. 410-651-7696
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