Education

BALTIMORE –– University System of Maryland (USM) Chancellor Robert Caret today named Mickey L. Burnim interim president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), effective June 18, 2018. Dr. Burnim served as president of Bowie State University between 2006 and 2017.

 Current UMES President Juliette Bell announced in February that she will step down this summer. In March, Chancellor Caret appointed a search and screening committee for the new president.

ADELPHI, Md. -- Robert L. Caret, chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM), today appointed the search and screening committee for the new president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES).   Current UMES President Juliette Bell announced in February that she will step down on June 30, 2018. Bell was selected for the position in March 2012 and is the fourth woman to serve as UMES president.

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 Boston-based non-profit organization “working to advance the public purposes of higher education.” 

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. –– Tomato grafting is the focus of a March 10 workshop at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.  The hands-on, informative class is limited to the first 20 registrants and will be held in the Agricultural Research Building on campus.

Anyone who grows tomatoes that are not resistant to air- and soil-borne diseases should attend.  Participants will learn the history and science of grafting as well as receive hands-on instruction about tomato grafting techniques.  In addition, every participant will leave the workshop with grafted plants to take home.

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 took an environmental science class offered through the summer program in Woods Hole and earned four credits toward my chemistry degree. I was eager to go back.