The Key August 28, 2015 Edition

A newsletter for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends

Photo courtesy of RainbowPUSH.org

August 28, 2015

Civil Rights Leader delivers Founders’ Day and Commencement address

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The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., among the nation’s leading civil rights voices, will visit the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Sept. 10 to deliver the Founders’ Day and Summer Commencement address.

Jackson, founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, will help UMES formally kickoff the 2015-16 academic year that coincides with Founders’ Day festivities held during the second week of September.

UMES’ Founders’ Day and Summer Commencement is when the university awards doctorates to graduate students in the Department of Physical Therapy. Twenty-nine are scheduled to receive degrees this year in the ceremony at the 1,200-seat Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.

This past spring, Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH organization sponsored an east coast college bus tour for Chicago-area high school students, and UMES was one of the featured stops.

That visit inspired Rainbow PUSH leaders to extend an invitation to UMES President Juliette B. Bell to attend the organization’s annual international conference in June, where she was honored as a role model for her accomplishments as a science educator-researcher.

“We are honored that Rev. Jackson will be visiting UMES to help celebrate our founding and our future,” Bell said. “He is a civil rights icon and a respected voice on many issues that are important to our students, our campus community, our nation, and the world. We look forward to his message.”

According to his online biography, Jackson “has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice” over the past 40 years.

President Bill Clinton awarded Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, 15 years ago.

Jackson, who graduated from North Carolina A&T State University, has told UMES officials he remembers playing football against contemporaries at then-Maryland State College, including 1965 alum Emerson Boozer.

Jackson’s visit to Princess Anne will mark the second time in 16 months UMES has played host to a national civil rights figure and protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia was the university’s May 2014 commencement speaker.

Jackson was at the motel in Memphis when King was assassinated in 1968, and photos of him on the balcony as King lay mortally wounded

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SOP Endowment New Chair of Human Ecology Established Chair of Dept. of Ed Named HTM Partners with Allen Becomes Pharm. Dean Frostburg in Taiwan

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The late William P. Hytche Sr., UMES 10th chief executive, joined 1984 presidential candidate (Rev.) Jesse L. Jackson Sr. on stage during a campaign visit to campus.

at his feet have been widely published over the years.

Two months after King’s death, Jackson was ordained by the Rev. Clay Evans and he “received his earned Master of Divinity degree from Chicago Theological Seminary in 2000.”

Jackson started Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) in Chicago in December 1971 to promote “economic empowerment and expanding educational, business and employment opportunities for the disadvantaged and people of color.”

In 1984, Jackson founded the National Rainbow Coalition, a social justice organization that focused on political empowerment, education and changing public policy. The Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH merged in 1996 “to continue the work of both organizations and to maximize resources.”

His biography notes that Jackson “is known for bringing people together on common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.”

Jackson has received more than 40 honorary doctorate degrees in acknowledgement of his work in human and civil rights and nonviolent social change. In September, he will add UMES to a list of colleges and universities where he has spoken that also includes Howard, Yale, Princeton, Morehouse, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Hampton.

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Choudhry Awarded UMES Health & Science Fellowhip Building OK’d SOP Students Team with Solar Car Donated to La Merced in Nicaragua UMES

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MEAC’s Highest Grad Rate A Look Around Campus

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WESM Adds Program Calendar of Freshmen Book Club Events Faculty Assembly Named Youth Visit to UMES

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Circling the Oval

Health care symposium fund created with former dean’s gift Dr. Nicholas R. Blanchard’s recent $10,000 gift has fulfilled a pledge he made as founding dean of the UMES’ School of Pharmacy to establish an endowment.

“I am very happy to be able to establish this endowment, which will be used to fund an annual symposium to bring diverse healthcare speakers to campus who can address national health care issues that would appeal to the broadest possible audience,” Blanchard said.

He currently is dean of West Coast University’s pharmacy school, a post he has held since 2014. This past spring, Blanchard visited the Princess Anne campus where students and former colleagues celebrated the announcement that his donation would boost UMES’ efforts to expand the influence of the university’s pharmacy program.

He presented the gift during the Class of 2015’s hooding ceremony presided over by UMES President Juliette B. Bell.

“Dr. Blanchard’s generosity will be counted toward the legacy he established as our founding dean,” Bell said, “It sets a fine example for future generations of professionals UMES will be sending into the pharmacy and health care professions.”

Blanchard joined the UMES faculty in 2008 after the university received approval to open the state’s second pharmacy school at a public university. He then spent the next two years recruiting faculty and supervising the creation of a year-round curriculum that enables students to earn a degree in three years instead of the traditional four.

The inaugural class of Doctor of Pharmacy candidates enrolled in the summer of 2010, quickly discovering that studying to become a pharmacist at UMES required more than attending class.

Under Blanchard’s leadership and tutelage, students were expected to do community service he said would prepare them for health care’s changing landscape. Today, UMES’ pharmacy students routinely assist Habitat for Humanity, organize fundraisers for the Epilepsy Foundation and help collect donations for the Blood Bank of Delmarva.

“I will always look back at establishing the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at UMES as the pinnacle of my career and look forward to further ways to supporting the efforts of the school and its programs,” Blanchard said.

President Juliette Bell and Dr. Veronique Diriker, Ph.D., UMES’ development director, accepted a $10,000 donation from Dr. Nicholas Blanchard, the former dean of Pharmacy and Health Professions, to support a health care symposium fund.

The university’s Office of Institutional Advancement notes Blanchard has pledged to continue growing the fund as well as providing financial support for the pharmacy school’s annual “Day of Service” now named in his honor.

Blanchard said he was heartened to hear the University System of Maryland’s governing board voted June 19 to support Bell’s request to pursue state funding for a new pharmacy classroom building.

“I am so delighted to hear the recent news regarding the approval of the new UMES School of Pharmacy and Health Professions building. A state-of-the-art facility will foster an exciting new model for health care education,” he said, adding that “UMES’ inter-professional approach to health care education will lead to new efficiencies that ensure better health, better care and lower health care costs.”

UMES’ School of Pharmacy and Health Professions officially welcomed a new dean – Dr. Ronnie Allen – July 1.

Visit IAUMES.givecorps.com and click on “Training the health care practitioners and leaders of tomorrow, today!” to learn how to join Blanchard in supporting UMES.

Frostburg State University Partners with UMES, Vanung University in Taiwan for Hospitality Management Program University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Frostburg State University students will have a unique immersive international opportunity in hospitality management thanks to a new partnership with Vanung University in Taiwan.

Starting in the Fall 2016, Frostburg and UMES students can travel to Vanung University for the fall semester with a faculty advisor where they will enroll in four, sixweek courses to gain experience in restaurant management and beverage control, partake in a wine seminar and learn air service customer service management.

UMES will offer online hospitality management courses to the FSU students, including online marketing for hospitality and leisure services, online law for the hospitality industry and hospitality management electives. Its students will be eligible for the international travel component of the program.

For more information, contact Monahan or Dr. Tom Sigerstad, coordinator of the Hospitality Management program, at 301-687-4375.

UMES People

UMES names new chair of Human Ecology Department Dr. Grace Wasike Namwamba is the new chair of the UMES’ Department of Human Ecology.

Namwamba previously taught in Baton Rouge, La. at Southern University and Agriculture and Mechanical College, where she was a professor and led the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. She also served as Southern’s interim Dean of the College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences (2012-13).

Fashion merchandising is Namwamba’s field, where her focus has been on digital textile printing and 3D virtual prototyping for apparel products. Digital textile printing, she said, provides professionals who are trained in the field with wider latitude in printing unique and intricate designs directly on fabric through use of specialized technology.

Known for her grant-writing successes, she has procured generous funding for classrooms and laboratories, including a Computer-AidedDesign laboratory, a 3D Body Scanning laboratory, a Digital Textile Printing laboratory, two textile testing laboratories and a high-tech multi-media classroom.

The opportunity to lead UMES’ human ecology department is appealing, Namwamba said, because of the university’s’ proximity to major metropolitan areas, including the fashion industry in New York. “It’s where anyone in my field would want to be,” she said.

During two decades as a member of Southern’s faculty, she generated over $4 million in grants for teaching and research.

Namwamba earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and home economics from Egerton University, Kenya, a master’s degree in home economics education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a doctorate in family and consumer sciences education from Iowa State University.

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Geleta picked to head UMES’ teachertraining department UMES this summer named Dr. Nomsa E. Geleta chair of the Department of Education. Geletz was the first chair of the education specialties department formed in 2007 at Salisbury University, where she was a faculty member for 14 years.

In 2011, Geleta joined the faculty at the School of Education at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where as dean she supervised 70 people in a school with an enrollment of approximately 1,400 students. She also was a professor of middle and secondary education leadership.

Geleta takes over an administrative post previously held by Dr. Karen Verbeke, who joined UMES’ Department of Education in 1990 and was chair for 14 years.

During 2½ years as dean at Edinboro, she nurtured K-12 and community college partnerships, facilitated international student teaching experiences, created a Community Partners Advisory Council, and fostered a culture of excellence in teaching, scholarship and service with an emphasis on mentoring and advising.

She oversaw reorganization of the school to enhance program quality and capitalizing on faculty expertise. Geleta led efforts to do a multi-million dollar renovation of Butterfield Education Hall with state-ofthe-art classrooms and technology, and guided the school’s preparation for accreditation, which resulted with a successful review.

Her grant writing experience has produced more than $1.5 million in awards to support collaborations with school districts and university partners.

Geleta earned an Ed.D. in higher education (administration), a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Oklahoma State University, and a bachelor’s degree in history and Zulu from the University of Zululand, South Africa.

Dr. Rondall E. Allen named UMES pharmacy dean Dr. Rondall E. Allen became dean of the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions July 1.

Allen was an associate professor and associate dean for academic quality in the School of Pharmacy at South University, a private, for-profit institution in Savannah, Ga. The UMES dean’s post appealed to him, he said, because “we have an opportunity to train students to work together with other health professionals gives us an advantage,” he said, “so that out in the workforce, they will understand the importance of collaborative practice.”

Between 2003 and 2013, Allen taught and worked as an administrator in the College of Pharmacy at Xavier University in New Orleans, where he earned his doctor of pharmacy degree in 1993. His undergraduate degree in pharmacy (1989) is from Florida A&M University, where he was also an assistant professor from 1996 to 1998.

Allen, a Tallahassee, Fla. native, also has experience in the private sector, working as a medical science manager for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and as a pharmacist with Rite Aid Corp., Eckerd Drug Co. and K-mart. He has done consulting work for the University of South Florida, DuPont Pharma and a medical center in St. Petersburg, Fla. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina came ashore in New Orleans, Allen was praised widely for his hands-on work keeping pharmacy students focused on completing their degree requirements in a region where every aspect of life and commerce was disrupted for many months.

Allen and his wife, Adrienne, have two children; a daughter, 9, and a son, 6.

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School News

UMES alumnus awarded Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Noman Choudhry is the recipient of a prestigious post-graduate honor worth $5,000 that he plans to apply toward medical school tuition. Choudhry was among 57 college students nationwide named in early July by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to receive a 2015 Fellowship award – and the first from UMES. “I was excited and felt a sense of relief as well,” he said. “It will help lighten the burden of taking the next step in my education.”

Choudhry received his bachelor’s degree in biology May 15 and will enroll in the University of Maryland School of Medicine this fall. He plans to return to Maryland’s Eastern Shore to practice when he completes his degree.

A 2011 graduate of Delmar High School, Choudhry attended UMES on a full academic scholarship as a member of the Richard A. Henson Honors Program.

“Noman epitomizes the hallmarks of honors education,” said Dr. Michael Lane, the Henson Honors Program director. “His sterling academic performance, goal-oriented dynamism, collaborative leadership and spirited service to the betterment of all make him an inspiring model to his peers.”

Choudhry completed his undergraduate studies with a 4.0 grade point average and for the past 2½ years has worked 20-to-30 hours a week as a scribe alongside attending physicians in the emergency room at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.

Phi Kappa Phi describes itself as the nation’s “oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors.” Distinguished faculty can also be members. Since its inception in 1932, the Fellowship Program is one of Phi Kappa Phi’s most visible and financially well-supported endeavors, “allocating $345,000 annually to deserving students for first-year graduate or professional study.”

The honor society’s selection process weighs “the applicants’ evidence of graduate potential, undergraduate academic achievement, service and leadership experience, letters of recommendation, personal statement of educational perspective and career goals, and acceptance at an approved graduate or professional program.”

A 2014 Phi Kappa Phi inductee, Choudhry was named Most Outstanding Student this past spring by UMES’ School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences.

He has been a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society since 2012 and participated in the 2014 Thurgood Marshall College Fund Leadership Institute.

“I appreciate the opportunity UMES had for me,” Choudhry said. “I like the fact the university was a smaller learning community, where you could get to know your professors and classmates, and everyone was so helpful.”

In addition to the fellowships, the national honor society biennially awards more than $1 million to qualifying students and members through undergraduate study-abroad grants, grants for literacy initiatives and member and chapter awards.

“This is a big deal for the university,” said Dr. Terry Smith, UMES’ campus chapter president.

Creating Global Partnership: UMES and La Merced

By Dr. Yen Dang, School of Pharmacy & Health Professions, CTTS-M

I was privileged to be part of a UMES contingent that included pharmacy students Dallas Tolbard and Bart Anderson and Dr. Veronique Diriker, the university’s development director, who accompanied 16 other volunteers and medical providers on a June 2015 mission to Nicaragua to provide medical assistance to the underserved.

Over a nine-day period, La Merced volunteers worked in hospitals, clinics and community outreach sites to fill health care gaps.

At the Roberto Clemente Health Clinic, members administered steroid injections to orthopedic patients. Others assisted plastic surgeons at the clinic and hospital. A dentist allowed mission students to assist in extracting teeth and filling cavities.

Volunteers also experienced “The Dump,” a community built on a

trash site and provided primary care services to people they found there.

The La Merced team provided medical care to over 350 patients.

It was a truly rewarding and humbling experience.

In a country with so little, it was amazing to see the hope, joy and perseverance on the faces of Nicaraguans, and be able to give back to such a resilient community.

We were welcomed with open arms by the young, old, disabled, poor, rich, and those with absolutely nothing. Amongst the rubble and devastation, we experienced the beautiful Nicaraguan culture and personally grew from the lives we touched.

We went on the mission to serve the less fortunate. We returned with a sense of hope from this experience, a belief we received something more intangible and valuable, and (made) a promise that we will return.

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USM regents OK new UMES health sciences building as priority one Construction of a new pharmacy and health sciences building is now UMES’ top capital improvements project. The University System of Maryland’s governing board approved a plan June 19 to spend $396.8 million on brick-and-mortar projects at the USM public universities starting a year from now.

Included in that amount is a request for $5.7 million to fund planning for a structure housing UMES’ School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.

The plan calls for an additional $51 million in state funds over the next four years to build and equip the new building.

“We’re grateful for the Board of Regents’ support,” UMES President Juliette B. Bell said. “We’ve made great strides since the regents gave us the go-ahead to offer a pharmacy degree, and having a new building will underscore the board’s commitment to this important professional program.”

Instruction for pharmacy, which admitted its first class in 2010, and exercise science/ kinesiology, rehabilitation services, physical therapy and physician assistant studies currently takes place in some half-dozen buildings.

The national accrediting organization that evaluates UMES’ pharmacy program recently signaled the university that it needs to demonstrate progress in getting students and faculty under one roof to maximize instructional efficiency as well as student-professor interaction.

Bell went before a regents’ finance-review committee in May seeking support to move a health sciences building atop UMES’ priority list.

Exterior work on the $93 million engineering / aviation science classroom building is winding down, and UMES officials are hoping next to secure state support for a new pharmacy / health professions building.

Maintaining a fully-accredited pharmacy school, Bell said, is critical to the university’s mission of producing highly skilled health care professionals to meet local, state and national needs.

The Board of Regents’ approved a capital improvement plan, which is a five-year projection of building-cost needs at institutions it oversees across the state.

Replacing UMES’ aging Frederick Douglass Library, built in the late 1960s, is also on that five-year plan, with planning for the new library funded in July 2019.

Construction on UMES’ aviation science and engineering building is winding down and is projected to be ready for occupancy and classroom instruction by early 2016. It will be UMES’ first new classroom building in more than a decade and at 160,000 square-feet, the largest structure on campus.

Donated solar car serves as teaching tool

UMES’ eco-friendly portfolio now includes a solar-powered Cruise Car. Gabriel J. Christian, a Washingtonarea attorney, donated the vehicle as a gift for the university’s Department of Technology to support instruction in the expanding field of alternative energy.

“Our goal is to build a course around this vehicle,” department chairman Derrek Dunn said.

Stephen McDaniel, UMES’ vice president for institutional advancement, said Christian’s unique donation shows “people are now beginning to realize that gifts come in a variety of forms. It’s not always money.”

From afar, the all-white vehicle resembles a giant Jurassic Worldinspired egg, or perhaps a smaller version of the one used by the Pope.

Upon closer inspection, it quickly becomes clear the vehicle is much more than a golf cart on steroids.

Equipped with four individual seats (and seat belts), brake and headlights, turn signals, drum brakes, a windshield wiper and a radio—the vehicle is designed to be used on public roadways.

Dunn said no firm decision has been made on whether to limit its

movement to UMES’ 745-acre main campus.

“The important thing is we have something to provide our students with some hands-on experience in learning how we are moving from reliance on fossil fuel driven mechanics to green energy sources,” Dunn said.

The newest addition to UMES’ motor pool is a 2008 model of a KUDO solar electric hybrid, among the first manufactured by Sarasota, Fla.-based Cruise Car Inc. It’s fitted with a solar panel on the roof that charges eight 6-volt batteries and also can be plugged into an electric source as needed.

The spec sheet says it weighs about 1,500 pounds, can do up to 20 miles-per-hour and can travel roughly 37 miles on fully charged batteries.

Nathan Kalin, Cruise Car’s marketing director, said universities are among the company’s clients because many use them for instruction as well as for practical applications.

“Every customer has a different application,” Kalin said.

Over the 10 years it has been manufacturing alternative-energy vehicles, SOLAR CAR / continued on page 6

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Athletics

UMES student-athletes top their MEAC peers for 6th straight year UMES has been recognized for the sixth consecutive year by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for having the league’s best graduation rate among its student-athletes.

UMES’ 88 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) was best among the league’s 13 members between 2004 and 2007, the most recent period statistics are available. The first year UMES was recognized, its GSR was 77 percent.

“It is a great honor to win this award …,” UMES athletic director Keith Davidson said. “It shows how successful our athletic program has truly been.”

“The graduation success our student-athletes have had shows the quality of people we are recruiting and that the university is doing its part in preparing student-athletes for life after college,” Davidson said.

UMES received a $25,000 check from the MEAC for the achievement during its annual late spring league meeting.

The GSR measures graduation rates of athletes at Division I institutions as well as those transferring into those schools, according to the NCAA. The accountability tool was created to reflect college students’ mobility when comparing graduation data.

UMES Director of Athletics Keith Davidson along with Compliance Director Neema Connor accept a check from MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas and S.C. State Faculty Representative Ethel Jones.

A look at what’s happening on the UMES campus for 2015

New digital signs, the just-completed “roundabout” on UMES Boulevard, school-spirit shuttle bus wraps and new lamp post banners are among new image wrinkles for the coming school year.

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Cruise Car has incorporated redesigns, such as using lightweight aluminum frames, to make them even more efficient than the one given to UMES. When McDaniel was a fundraiser for Alcorn State, people occasionally donated farm equipment to the land-grant university in Mississippi. The solarpowered Cruise Car, he said, is a first in his 30-plus years working in higher education.

Having the Cruise Car as a teaching tool “opens a door for research by faculty and students.

Everybody is looking for ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,” Dunn said.

Technology students recently built rotating solar panels adjacent to the Thomas & Briggs Arts and Technology Center, and plans are in the works to install a small, demonstration wind turbine to augment instruction.

“We’re constantly looking for ways to update and improve our curriculum so it is relevant to our students,” Dunn said.

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WESM 91.3 FM adds flagship program from WYPR New schedule changes and branding WESM 91.3 FM began a new weekly schedule June 29 in a move to deliver programming that has a broader global focus and coverage of issues that affect the state.

WESM partnered with WYPR 88.1 in Baltimore to carry its flagship newsmagazine “Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast.” The hour-long program now simulcasts on the Princess Anne-based NPR member station on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9 a.m. via a live feed from Baltimore, expanding WESM’s morning news coverage.

The program covers the state “from the Atlantic to the Appalachians probing beyond the news headlines, unraveling local implications of national news stories and exploring the science, history, arts and culture of Maryland.”

“We are grateful that WYPR has generously partnered with us to carry the ‘Maryland Morning’ program,” said Stephen Williams, WESM’s general manager. “We believe it will serve our audiences within the state, as well as the greater region’s need for thoughtful and relevant news programming.

It also fits more closely with the goal of the station’s host institution, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, to help foster globally-competent citizens.”

“WYPR is delighted that the thoughtful reporting that earned ‘Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast’ a DuPont Award will be a cornerstone of WESM’s new sound,” said Tony Brandon, president and general manager of WYPR. “Our attention to statewide issues is already heard on WYPF in Frederick and WYPO in Ocean City, as well as in Baltimore, and we’re gratified that our partnership with WESM now brings it to a larger portion of the Eastern Shore.”

Take MyUMES with you everywhere!

Download the MyUMES App.

You can now access popular HawkWeb functionality from within the MyUMES app. Register for classes, view grades and schedules, review account balances, holds and more. Simply tap the icon in the top-right of the app and login with your UMES username and password.

Faculty Assembly officers starting Fall 2015 will be: • LaKeisha L. Harris: Chair • Todd Matthews: Chair Elect • Donna Satterlee: Secretary • Dean R. Cooledge: Treasurer • Joseph D. Bree: Parliamentarian • Bill Chapin: Past Chair UMES freshmen are reading “The Other Wes Moore,” the book selected as the common reader for the 2015-16 academic year. The campus community is invited to join in.

Let’s have something in common to talk about!

Award-winning journalist Tom Ashbrook’s two-hour weekday call in show, “On Point,” has also been added on WESM. The NPR News show produced by WBUR Boston features discussion and in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest stories with feedback and reactions from callers. Other changes in the morning news lineup include a two-hour expansion of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” now starting at 5 a.m.; with the “BBC Newshour” airing Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m.

On the music side, “Jazz24” from KPLU in Seattle airs from 1-5 a.m. replacing “Jazz with Bob Parlocha.” Local music programs now expand in the afternoons, Williams said, with the debut of “Afternoon Jazz” Monday through Thursday, from noon to 4 p.m. and the addition of a new “Latin Jazz” program at 2 p.m. every Friday. Local host, Yancy Carrigan, rolls out the new “Evening Jazz Unlimited” weekdays from 7-10 p.m. The traditional Friday “Jazz Night in America” moves to 7 p.m.

Expansion of weekend news and information programming includes: NPR’s “Snap Judgment,” “Living on Earth,” “A Way With Words,” “Intelligence Squared” and “Weekend All Things Considered.”

The new “Weekend Edition Sundays” airs at 11 a.m., followed by “Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson” from Public Radio International and WNYC. Also from WNYC is “On the Media,” an hour-long program at 2 p.m., which examines issues related to media and freedom of information and expression.

To view the full schedule visit: wesm913.org/schedule/week. WESM’s new audio and visual identity, “Changing the way you hear the world,” will be reflected in on-air identifications and its logo.

Area youth visit UMES for college readiness program

UMES partnered with Somerset County’s local management board July 24 and August 7 to host some 180 youth from the FACES of Somerset summer program at the Garland Hayward Youth Center and It Takes A Village for a summer enrichment program. UMES’ Office of University Engagement and Lifelong Learning and the Office of Admissions & Recruitment arranged activities and workshops for the trip to the UMES campus. The Future Leaders Institute included STEAM workshops, career exploration activities, leadership workshops and small group discussions with community leaders, lunch at the university’s cafeteria and use of the campus recreation center.

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