The Key March 27, 2015 Edition

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

March 27, 2015

Tiger Woods’ gift launches a new UMES golf management scholarship fund Tiger Woods is the first individual donor to a new University of Maryland Eastern Shore scholarship fund that will honor the memory of Dr. Charlie Sifford, the late professional golfer.

Woods is joining with the university to pay tribute to the man who broke the color barrier on the PGA Tour in the early 1960s.

Woods’ personal gift of $10,000 will launch the Sifford Fund, which UMES is creating to “provide need-based scholarships to highly talented students who demonstrate a passion for the game of golf … and who are from populations underrepresented in the golf industry.”

UMES is the nation’s lone historically black university that offers a bachelor’s degree in professional golf management accredited by the PGA of America.

“The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is honored to accept this generous gift from Tiger Woods to support our professional golf management program and to partner with us in acknowledging Dr. Sifford’s role as a sports pioneer,” UMES President Juliette B. Bell said.

Sifford died Feb. 3 at the age of 92, a passing that prompted the golf and sports worlds to pause and reflect on what he accomplished.

Many looked to Woods, who called Sifford “the grandpa I never had.”

“Without Charlie Sifford, and the other pioneers who fought to play, I may not be playing golf,” Woods said. “My Pop may not have picked up the game, and maybe I wouldn’t have either.”

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Photo courtesy of ETW Corp.

Dr. D. Jason DeSousa is the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s next vice president for student affairs and DeSousa enrollment management.

DeSousa’s first day at UMES will be April 20. named vice He currently works at Fayetteville (N.C.) State University, where he has been assistant vice chancellor for student president of retention since January 2012.

“Dr. DeSousa is the right person at the right time to fill this important leadership post at UMES,” President Juliette student affairs B. Bell said. “I know our campus community will make him feel welcome.”

“He brings a wealth of experience and success in the challenging field of college enrollment, and I am confident he will help us achieve our goals in that critical area,” Bell said.

A 1987 Morgan State University graduate, DeSousa’s two-decade career in higher education has included administrator positions at his alma mater as well as Tuskegee University, Alabama State University, Savannah State University, Huston-Tillotson University in Texas and Clark Atlanta University.

“UMES is known as the kind of institution genuinely concerned about providing an educational experience that is compelling, innovative and transformative,” he said. “And that approach is very exciting to me.”

DeSousa holds a master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a doctorate in higher education administration from Indiana University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.

He has brought in some $3 million in grants to institutions where he has worked to support projects focusing

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Commencement Speaker Announced 1890 Day Walk

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Allen Named Board of Visitors’ Chair UMES Awarded Grant

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Jazz & Blues Cabaret HBCU Sumit Prayer Breakfast Fulbright Scholar Visits

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Bowling Reigns Supreme Basketball Season Ends

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Honda All-Stars Home Depot

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Calendar of Events

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Circling the Oval

Commencement speaker is high ranking USDA official

UMES hosts 1890 Day walk The University of Maryland Eastern Shore celebrates National 1890 Day on Thursday, April 23 with a wellness walk for the campus and community. The event is one of many being held by the nation’s 19 historically black, land-grant universities, known as 1890s, in honor of the 125th anniversary of the signing of the Second Morrill Act of 1890.

Following a kick-off at the William P. Hytche Athletic Center at 11 a.m., the goal is to see at least 1,890 administrators, faculty, university and K-12 students, alumni, legislators, community leaders, and members of the community walking together beginning at 11:30 a.m. Other activities for the day include health screenings, exhibits and an 1890 Day photograph, where walk participants will be photographed standing in formation to create the numbers 1, 8, 9 and 0.

The 1890 land-grant system commenced with the signing of the Second Morrill Act, authored by U.S. Sen. Justin Morrill of Vermont. The act committed federal funds to support universities and colleges, like UMES, for residents in southern and border states, who because of their race were denied admission to the publically-funded land-grant institutions that had been receiving money from Congress since 1862.

Because most of the 1890 universities are in the south, sometimes referred to as the “stroke belt,” 1890 Day organizers selected a 1.890 mile wellness walk/run to celebrate the day, noting that apoplexy is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., and African-Americans are twice as likely to die from the condition.

Registration is $18.90. Donations and 100 percent of the walk’s registration fees will be used to establish a Justin Morrill Scholarship endowment fund that will aid UMES students in carrying out the land-grant mission of the 1890s for generations to come.

Visit www.umes.edu/sans and click on the 125th logo for more information about 1890 Day and other events at UMES held in celebration of 125 years of providing access and enhancing opportunities. For more information about the 1890s and the difference they are making in the communities they serve and across the world, visit 1890universities.org.

Dr. Gregory L. Parham, an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will deliver the commencement address May 15 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 128th spring graduation ceremony.

An estimated 415 degree candidates will hear from a man who has worked for the federal agency since 1982 in a variety of capacities, including administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

The APHIS post made Parham the highest ranking official in the federal regulatory agency charged with protecting animal and plant health in the United States, including animal care and biotechnology issues.

His role as this spring’s commencement speaker is a recognition of the 125th anniversary of the Second Morrill Act of 1890, which established a commitment by Congress to support 19 historically black land-grant institutions, including UMES. A native of Ohio, Parham has been in his current post of assistant secretary of agriculture for administration since June 2013. Prior to this appointment, he was the acting assistant secretary.

Before serving as the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service administrator, he was its associate administrator and deputy administrator for Marketing and Regulatory Programs - Business Services.

He also has worked for several other USDA agencies, including; the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Extension Service, the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

According to his USDA biography, Parham began his career as a federal employee at the Centers for Disease Control where he was an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Public Health Service.

Parham holds a doctorate and bachelor degrees from The Ohio State University in veterinary medicine and microbiology, and earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in administrative science.

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on “student retention, student leadership and enriching educational experiences,” including a $1 million award from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation announced just last month.

That grant will support a program that provides learning resources, tutoring and mentors targeting students capable of doing college work but who are struggling to keep pace with classmates.

He has testified before a U.S. Senate committee in May 2014 on “Strengthening Minority Serving Institutions,” and shared his expertise with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities on strategies to attract more minority men to those institutions and keep them motivated to graduate.

A former president of the National Association of Student Affairs

Professionals, Inspire magazine in 2013 named DeSousa one of its “Top 40 Inspirers” and Morgan State honored him with its 2003 Distinguished Male alumnus award.

DeSousa says he envisions UMES aggressively using cutting-edge technology to bolster traditional recruiting methods as well as enlisting outgoing students to work alongside admissions counselors to help “sell” the university as “the right choice.”

“I see my role as being the person responsible for ensuring campus life is robust, interesting and that students have access to a spectrum of cocurricular experiences that enriches their time at UMES,” DeSousa said.

And when UMES plays his alma mater, Morgan State, in basketball, who will he root for?

“I’ll be sitting at half court,” DeSousa diplomatically said with a laugh.

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UMES awarded grant to research new GPS uses UMES’ Department of Technology has been awarded a $238,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to underwrite research into new uses for Global Positioning Systems.

The funding was used to purchase a satellite simulator, various GPS receivers and Inertial Navigation System sensors. The new simulator, according to department Chairman Derrek B. Dunn, “has the ability to simulate up to 12 GPS satellites.”

Dunn, who wrote the grant application, says the new equipment can have broad applications, from cellphones, watches and automobiles to more sophisticated projects like those of interest to the federal government.

“It can be used for pilot training,” Dunn said in an interview broadcast

by WMDT. “We can now simulate a track pilots may take during their flights and actually allow them to see the aerial view of where they are being navigated to, so they become familiar with it.”

In the proposal submitted to the Office of Naval Research,

T H E U MES M I SSI ON The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the state’s historically black, 1890 land-grant institution, has its purpose and uniqueness grounded in distinctive learning, discovery and engagement opportunities in the arts and science, education, technology, engineering, agriculture, business and health professions.

UMES is a student-centered, doctoral research degree-granting university known for its nationally accredited undergraduate and graduate programs, applied research and highly valued graduates.

UMES provides individuals, including first-generation college students, access to a holistic learning environment that fosters multicultural diversity, academic success, and intellectual and social growth.

UMES prepares graduates to address challenges in a global, knowledgebased economy while maintaining its commitment to meeting the workforce and economic development needs of the Eastern Shore, the state, the nation and the world.

Dunn wrote the equipment also would support “research-related education programs (at UMES such as)…bachelor’s degree programs in aviation science with a concentration in avionic electronics; engineering technology with a concentration in electrical/electronics engineering technology, and engineering with concentrations in electrical engineering and aerospace engineering.”

UMES will partner with North Carolina A&T University in sharing the equipment to support instruction in computer systems technology and information technology on the Greensboro campus.

“The (A&T) faculty will assist UMES faculty in setup and offering GPS related courses to support the … education program at UMES,” Dunn wrote.

Dunn also said the simulator and the other equipment could be used to train technicians and engineers to design the next generation of navigation systems.

Jovan Roberts and Miranda Nettey, both senior electrical engineering majors, check out a new satellite simulator UMES has acquired with a federal grant to conduct Global Positioning System research.

Allen named UMES Board of Visitors’ chair John J. Allen Jr., vice president of the Delmarva Power region of Pepco Holdings Inc., was recently named chair of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Board of Visitors.

“Mr. Allen has been a valuable asset to the board for the past seven years,” UMES President Juliette B. Bell said.

“His business acumen and service to the community make him ideal for such a post. We look forward to his continued commitment to the university—as board chair, friend and advocate.”

Allen succeeds Jesse T. Williams Sr., an alumni (1962) and retired Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. executive, who held the position since the board’s founding in 1997. UMES’ Board of Visitors meets four times annually and serves in an advisory capacity to the university’s president. Members are charged with assisting with “community relations, institutional development, governmental issues, alumni affairs and advancing the mission of the university.”

Allen is a 34-year veteran of the utility industry. He is responsible for “building and maintaining community, business and government relationships in Central and Southern Delaware and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia” for Delmarva Power. His expertise is also shared as a member of the UMES Business Executive Advisory Council and as a member of the University System of Maryland Foundation’s board.

Allen’s community involvement also includes board membership on Nanticoke Health Services, Delaware State University and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lower Eastern Shore and the executive boards of The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, the Greater Salisbury Committee, Salisbury-Wicomico Economic Development and the Maryland/District of Columbia Utilities Assoc.

Allen attended Lincoln University and Southwest Bible College and Seminary and holds bachelor and master degrees in theology.

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School News

Photo by SMDi Photography

Tickets on sale for UMES Jazz & Blues Cabaret

For two nights only, April 17 and 18, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore turns its Richard A. Henson Center ballroom into a swanky jazz club—city style.

Tickets are now on sale for the event highlighting the talents of UMES’ Drama Society, and the hospitality and fine arts departments.

“We’re trying something new this year—a Jazz & Blues Cabaret,” said Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson, the society’s director. “Guests will enjoy music by the UMES Jazz Band, the Dinner Theatre Showtime Band from previous years, and talented singers and dancers from the campus and the community while dining on a gourmet meal by the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department.”

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a 7 p.m. curtain time for the first set. This year, a dance floor invites party-goers to be-bop, strut, shuffle or boogie to the tunes of Billie Holiday, Otis Redding, Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Costello and more. The Jazz Combo will play music to dine by.

Tickets are $45 per person and can be purchased by visiting www.

UMEStickets.com or by calling 410-651-7747.

Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine visits campus Nataliia Borysenko, a visiting Fulbright scholar at Washington State University from the Ukraine, will come to UMES April 2 and 3 as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program’s “Occasional Lecturer Program at Minority Serving Institutions.”

She will present a lecture, “Ukraine Today,” April 3 at 10 a.m. in UMES’ Foreign Language Instructional Center. Borysenko specializes in intercultural communications, English as a Second Language and online learning.

She is a member of the World Association for Online Education and the International Association of Teacher of English as a Foreign Language. Borysenko is a professor of foreign languages for the chemistry and physics schools at the Institute of Philology at the Taras Shevchenki National University of Kyiv.

Borysenko has a doctorate in philology, the study of language, from the Kyiv National Linguistic University. She earned a diploma with distinction in Spanish and English from the Kyiv Pedagocical Institute of Foreign Languages.

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The 2015 HBCU Summit on and Student Learning Through Retention was held earlier this month Undergraduate Research. UMES at the Clarion Resort Fountainebleu students also played key roles, hotel in Ocean City. The 18th annual serving as facilitators of sessions event brought together students and and serving as panelists tackling educators from 13 colleges and the threats and opportunities of the universities in Maryland, Delaware Changing Face of the HBCUs in the 21 and Virginia as well as several from Century, the 2015 summit’s theme. outside the region.

UMES’ Jazz Ensemble provided Over 200 participants engaged entertainment. in lively discussions about “the latest “I was impressed by the faculty trends, successes and opportunities and staff who took pay cuts to keep in student retention,” according to students in school because they long-time summit participant Robin valued their students’ education,” Burton of UMES. The summit’s said Dominique D. Plater, a junior purpose is to address the challenge majoring in criminal justice. of retaining students at historically Among the speakers appearing black institutions, celebrating at the summit were: Johnny C. successful retention programs Taylor, president and CEO, Thurgood UMES seniors Chanal Carlisle and Ryan Philoche were part of the and brainstorming to develop new Marshall College Fund; Michael J. 2015 delegation to the summit. approaches aimed at boosting the Sorrell, president, Paul Quinn College; number of students who complete their studies to earn a degree. and Dr. John T. Wolfe, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs/ “I learned that each school has (its) own issues,” said UMES’ Jasmine diversity and academic leadership development, University System of Ellerbee, a junior studying business administration. “The summit is a time Maryland. and place when all come together … to help one another find solutions.”

The UMES delegation was led by steering committee members Burton UMES faculty and staff were presenters on such topics as, Student of the Center for Access & Academic Success; Clifton Harcum, Office of Leadership Development and Its Impact on College Retention, Optimizing University Engagement and Lifelong Learning and Dr. LaKeisha Harris, the LMS and Curriculum for Online Retention and Enhancing Curricula Department of Rehabilitation.

UMES represented at HBCU Summit on Retention

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UMES paid tribute to Sifford with a Capitol Hill reception Nov. 24, the day he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony. Sifford joined Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus as the only golfers to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Sifford and his extended family expressed delight that evening in meeting UMES students, many of them African-Americans, pursuing careers in the golf industry.

Billy Dillon, UMES golf management program director, said the feeling was mutual among his students.

UMES PGA Golf Management students (from left) Anthony Ward, Norman Blanco, Tiana Jones and Patrick Harris, meet the late Charlie Sifford (center).

“It was a special moment for a lot of them,” Dillon said. “Some knew about what Mr. Sifford accomplished, and when others learned why he was being recognized, I think they realized the importance of the moment.”

Back in the limelight just weeks before his passing refocused attention on Sifford’s difficult journey as a 20th century athlete of color attempting to play a sport professionally that was segregated.

Encouraged by the turnout at its tribute reception for Sifford, UMES immediately began exploring ways it might “honor the life and legacy of Dr. Sifford, and further his aspirations for the sport that he loved.”

In Sifford’s autobiography, “Just Let Me Play,” he wrote: “I want golf to reach out to people from all walks of life and to be the sport that puts itself above issues of race and class and economic levels,” Sifford wrote. “We should give everybody equal access to the game, with equal facilities to play and we should give them the same opportunities to pursue the game throughout their lives.”

Using Sifford’s words as inspiration and its distinctive platform, UMES is not only preparing diverse leaders for careers in the golf profession, but is also expanding involvement in golf among populations currently underrepresented in the industry, including women and minorities.

UMES’ professional golf management program currently enrolls 44 students, more than half of whom are women and minorities. Upon graduation, they will be positioned for careers in recreational or competitive golf, business, marketing, media and hospitality.

On Woods’s Twitter account after learning of Sifford’s death, Woods wrote: “We all lost a brave, decent and honorable man. I’ll miss (you) Charlie.”

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Athletics

UMES bowlers reign supreme - again

Hawks win their 3rd straight & 8th overall conference title

Three strikes in a row in bowling vernacular are known as a “turkey,” but that fowl reference perhaps should be changed to the more dignified raptor, “hawk,” – at least in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

The UMES women’s bowling team captured the university’s third straight MEAC tournament title this past weekend, storming back from a 3-0 deficit to bring home another champion’s trophy in a best-ofseven games playoff.

The Lady Hawks defeated Norfolk State, a surprise foe in the final match held in Chesapeake, Va. that ended in dramatic fashion.

Junior transfer Thashaina Seraus, MEAC’s newcomer of the year, converted a single-pin spare in the last frame of the last game, earning a final ball she used to knock down eight more pins to give UMES a 178-to170 victory.

“There’s a lot of satisfaction in winning,” said Tatiana Munoz, one of four UMES seniors. “Knowing that all the hard work we put in this season and over our four years paid off one last time. It’s great.”

“There’s no better way to end the MEAC Championships than winning them, and for the third time in our careers, that’s pretty awesome,” Munoz said.

Munoz and Seraus were MEAC All-Tournament team selections as well as named to the first-team All-Conference squad for regular season play.

Senior Mariana Alvardo also was a first-team All-Conference performer.

All six UMES bowlers also were named to the conference’s AllAcademic team prior to the tournament.

Two days of preliminaries seemingly put the Lady Hawks in solid position to win another MEAC bowling title – the school’s eighth – but they quickly found themselves on the verge of elimination, losing the first three games.

The UMES squad struggled early, leaving open frame after open frame, failing to find the ball’s correct path into the pocket, according to Stan Bradley, who oversees media relations for UMES athletics. Even BOWLING / continued on page 7

Season to remember, II The 2014-15 UMES women’s basketball team etched its name in the athletics’ department record books when it played in the 2015 MidEastern Athletic Conference tournament’s championship game earlier this month.

It was a first for a Lady Hawks’ squad, which got started by winning an opening round game and then shocked the tournament’s top seed, Hampton University. Jessica Long sank an off-balance jumper as the clock ticked down to give UMES the upset victory, 52-50, over the Lady Pirates.

Hampton was a five-time defending conference tournament champion.

UMES wasn’t finished with dramatics – Friday the 13th notwithstanding. The UMES women defeated MEAC’s other Tidewater-area school, Norfolk State, in an overtime thriller to reach the championship game.

The Lady Hawks finished runner-up in the tournament, dropping the final game to second seed Savannah State, a team they beat in the regular season.

“We never celebrated this week,” coach Fred Batchelor told The Daily Times newspaper. “We came here to finish the job and we came up short, but the effort that these kids put forth has been enormous.

For them to represent me and our institution, I am very fortunate.”

The tournament marked the end of the collegiate careers for two stellar seniors, Shawnee Sweeney and Long, the Hampton game hero.

“Where do we go from here,?”

Bachelor asked, “I think we just build on this.”

One building block is freshman Moengaroa Subritzky, named to the MEAC All-Tournament team and a solid regular season performer.

The UMES men’s MEAC tournament was an abbreviated one, losing to eventual champion, Hampton, in a quarterfinal match-up.

But an 18-win regular season got the attention of post-season tournament organizers and the Hawks accepted an invitation to participate in the CollegeInsider. com Tournament, an event tailored to “mid-major” programs.

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Photos by Mark Sutton

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UMES students compete in Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

Team UMES was 3-2 in pool play at the 2015 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge and narrowly missed qualifying for the quarterfinals.

From left, are: Aleaya Bowie, Mariah Dennis, (coach) Dr. James White, Evan Bryant, Jonathan Wheeler and Provost Patrick Liverpool.

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when Norfolk State failed to roll strikes, Bradley said, the Lady Spartans converted tough spares and kept the Hawks playing from behind.

Bradley has two theories about what triggered the turn-around: “The realization by four seniors, who knew it was their last conference championship? Or it may have been the MEAC trophy brought out next to the lanes for a TV shot with ESPN, which filmed the event, anticipating Norfolk State would sweep the Hawks?”

Either way, things changed. The Hawks dug deep.

“We went down 3-0, and I looked at our assistant coach, Bret Cunningham, who was seeing the lanes well, and I told him we need to refocus,” head coach Kayla Bandy said. “We had to regroup and release some tension and tightness. Once we started to do that, we hit the head pin and covered the spare.”

Bandy was named the championships’ Most Outstanding Coach for the second straight year.

“Winning the third championship in a row is exciting,” the secondyear coach said. “This one was fun, but it was really great for our seniors and important to me to help them go out on top with this championship.”

The Hawks’ big win will air in a tape-delayed format Monday, March 30 at 9 p.m. on ESPNU. BASKETBALL / continued from page 6

post-season appearance since 1974 sent the Hawks to High Point (N.C.) University, a school with a similar enrollment and a 22-9 record. The Panthers defeated the Hawks, 70-64.

“They went out and gave me their effort,” coach Bobby Collins said in a post-game interview with The Daily Times, “So what more can you ask for?”

“I’m extremely excited about what’s to come with Maryland Eastern Shore men’s basketball,” Collins said, adding. “I’m very proud also of our lady’s program and what coach Bachelor (has done) and the direction he has taken his program.”

“So we know now Maryland Eastern Shore is not the team you can come in and ink a win anymore. We’re going to give our absolute best effort every night.”

Help UMES win up to $50,000 for campus improvements in the Home Depot’s 2015 “Retool Your School” grant program for HBCUs. When you cast your vote, you can enter for a chance to win a cabin on the Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage Cruise.

In order to win, we need: 1. EVERYONE to vote for UMES EVERY DAY at www.retoolyourschool.com/vote-now/ 2. Use social media outlets to encourage your friends, classmates, alumni and colleagues to vote. #umes_RYS15 Bookmark this link, www.retoolyourschool.com/ Voting Ends April 20!

Thank you in advance, UMES FAMILY!

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Calendar

*Unless stipulated (*) all events listed are free and open to the public.

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Opening Reception Art Exhibit 4-6 p.m.

Mosely Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

“What Matters: UMES Fine-Art Student Show.”

Students display their artistic works in various mediums. Show runs through April 23.

410-651-7770 or www.moselygallery.com

TICKETS NOW ON SALE Jazz & Blues Cabaret April 17-18, 2015 University of Maryland Eastern Shore Richard A. Henson Center

Doors open at 6 p.m. $45 per person includes dinner and show Visit www.UMES.tickets.com or call 410-651-7747

UMES Concert Choir Performance 4 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571 UMES Jazz Ensemble Concert 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571 African Dance Troupe 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m Ella Fitzgerald Center The Gye Nyame African Cultural Dance Troupe performs.

410-651-8385 Jazz & Blues Cabaret* 6 p.m.

Richard A. Henson Center Entertainment by UMES’ Drama Society and Jazz Band, five-course gourmet meal by the Hospitality and Tourism Management Dept. and dancing. $45 per person. www.UMEStickets.com or call 410-651-7747 Jazz Combo & Chamber Ensemble Recital 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571 Wellness Walk 11 a.m.

William P. Hytche Athletic Center Walk celebrates National 1890 Day in observance of the signing of the Second Morrill Act of 1890. $18.90 per person.

Register at www.umes.edu/sans

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