The Key September 20, 2013 Edition

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Groundbreaking signals start of construction on new STEM building The east side of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus is about to be transformed by construction of a new classroom building.

University and civic leaders were joined at a ceremonial groundbreaking Sept. 11 by architects and the contractors about to start building a 166,000 square-foot structure for aviation science, computer science and engineering instruction.

“In the new building that will rise behind me,” President Juliette B. Bell said, “future airline pilots, air traffic controllers, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and others will be trained as the next generation of leaders in their fields.”

When completed in 24 months, the new building will be the university’s largest. That distinction currently is held by the Student Services Center with 155,000 square feet.

“I can’t wait to move into our new building,” said Kayla Press, a mathematics education major.

To make room for the three-story engineering building, a structure used for poultry science instruction off College Backbone Road will be demolished.

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UMES President Juliette Bell poses with STEM students who spoke at the groundbreaking. Pictured from left, are: Kayla Press, a mathematics/mathematics education major; Esther Nwogu, a computer science major; Rodrigo Ramos, an engineering major; Bell; and Stephanie Minto, an aviation science major. Photo by Jim Glovier

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Bell attends White House briefing President Juliette Bell participated in an Education Stakeholder Convening event organized Thursday by the White House.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and other administrative leaders briefed educators on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, what changes in healthcare coverage will mean for students or employees as well as collaboration opportunities over the next year.

U.S. News again lists UMES among top black colleges UMES is again rated in the top tier of America’s historically black institutions by “U.S. News & World Report” for the seventh consecutive year.

The 2013 survey lists UMES 29th along with Norfolk (Va.) State, Alcorn State in Mississippi and Philander Smith College in Arkansas. UMES was ranked 33rd a year ago.

“I am delighted that we continue to be ranked among the top HBCUs in the country,” UMES President Juliette B. Bell said. “This survey gives UMES a snapshot of where we stand among our peers and where we would like this university to go.”

UMES is joined in the upper tier again this year

by Morgan State and Bowie State universities, two public HBCUs in Maryland rated 18th and 25th respectively. UMES’ “peer assessment” score was U.S. NEWS/ continued on page 2

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Page 2 Interim VP IA Named Honors Program Director Childhood Cancer Month

Page 3 Faculty and Staff Spotlight Benefits Open Enrollment Faculty Assembly & Senate Officers NAA Slate of Officers

Page 4 - 5 Founders Week Celebrations

Page 6 Club Football Career Fair

Page 7 Miss UMES Q&A Security Review Undergraduate Wins Award

Page 8 Calendar of Events Gourmet Dining Series

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Interim vice president for Institutional Advancement named Stephen L. McDaniel has been named interim vice president for Institutional Advancement by President Juliette B. Bell. He takes over the post held for the past year by Kimberly Dumpson, who now works in Bell’s office as executive vice president.

McDaniel comes to UMES from Norfolk (Va.) State University, where for the past year he held the same title while heading up that institution’s fundraising activities. His first day in Princess Anne will be Oct. 7.

Over a 30-year career, McDaniel has held senior-level fundraising and marketing leadership positions at nine colleges and universities, including Alcorn State, Fayetteville State, Alabama A&M, North Carolina A&T State, Tuskegee and the University of Maryland at College Park.

The United Negro College Fund served as his fundraising training ground, where for 18 years he was a part of the UNCF team that collected scholarship support for deserving students at the nation’s private historically black institutions.

In 1997, McDaniel branched out into international fundraising when he served as a consultant in Niamey, Niger. He was part of a team in 2001 that conducted an evaluation of the fundraising readiness at the Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management in Kigali, Rwanda.

McDaniel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Certificate in Managing Institutional Advancement from the University of Chicago.

He is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a former member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) National Commission on Philanthropy and a member of the board of directors for CASE District III (2009-2011), American Association of State Colleges and Universities 2011 Advisory Council for Communications and Public Affairs.

McDaniel is a life member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc, is listed in Who’s Who in Black Atlanta and has two adult sons, Larry and Kenya, and two grandsons.

UMES names new Honors Program director Dr. Michael E. Lane is the new director of the Richard A. Henson Honors Program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Lane comes to UMES from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., where he was associate director of its Honors College.

He became a member of the Appalachian State faculty in 2000 as an assistant professor of French, teaching in the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture.

In addition to his responsibilities as Henson Honors Program director, Lane will be a tenured associate professor of French in UMES’ Department of English and Modern Languages.

At Appalachian, he earned tenure in 2006 and three years later began serving as an assistant honors program director. He played an instrumental role in assisting the university in moving that program to college status.

Lane specializes in 19th and 20th century French poetics and short fiction. For two decades, his teaching focus has been to provide “a broad array of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in French and Francophone language, literature, cultural studies, and methodology, especially teaching with technology.”

He also enjoys organizing study abroad programs and has led several five-week immersion study trips to Paris and Angers, France for undergraduates.

He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant to lead 12 North Carolina public school teachers of French, history and world literature on a summer program throughout Senegal.

The North Carolina American Association of Teachers of French named him “Teacher of the Year” in 2012.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in French from Saint Lawrence University (1992); his master’s in French is from the State University of New York in Binghamton (1994) and he received his doctorate in French from Pennsylvania State University (1998).

Lane will be working alongside long-time UMES staffer Aundrá Roberts, who now holds the title of assistant director of the Henson Honors program.

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better than four institutions ahead of it in the latest survey, which also takes into account such factors as graduation rates, full-time faculty, class size and alumni giving.

Since the 2013 survey was conducted, UMES received notice its undergraduate engineering and doctorate in pharmacy programs earned accreditation credentials signifying the university is preparing qualified graduates for their professional fields. UMES now has 28 accredited academic programs, a number that has grown exponentially from just a handful a decade ago.

UMES awarded 724 degrees during the 2012-13 academic year, including 30 doctorates in the largest class to graduate from its physical therapy program.

Bell, who became UMES president in July 2012, said the annual U.S. News survey can be a motivational tool to inspire everyone at the university to work toward the pursuit of “eminence,” the watchword of her presidency.

“We’ve made important strides in that direction in my first year as president,” she said. “We acknowledge there is still plenty of work to do. UMES is capable of achieving our goals. I know our university is committed to doing so.”

Employee’s daughter raises money for children with cancer Cedric (a counselor with the Office of Counseling Services) and Benita Rashaw (associate director of Residence Life) proudly support daughter, Carrington, in her efforts to raise money for children with cancer. Modeled after Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Carrington’s Fresh Lemonade proceeds will be donated to the Children’s Cancer Research Fund. She raised over $200 with donations still coming in.

Interested donors can email bbrownrashaw@gmail.com.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

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Faculty and Staff Spotlight international background and has taken art students to Italy for study abroad chemistry, Department of Natural Sciences, served as programs. Holt looks forward to “building an exciting exhibition program in program co-chair for the 2013 International Conference on our Mosely Gallery.”

Material Engineering in Nanjing, China. Based on the success Ruth Lee O’Rourke was elected to serve as a board member of the conference last May, Cheney has been chosen to cofor the Montgomery County Conference and Visitors Bureau. chair the 2014 conference. The conference provides a O’Rourke is the program director for the UMES Hotel and platform for researchers, engineers, academicians and Restaurant Management program at the Universities at Shady industrial professionals to present their research results and development Grove in Montgomery County. She said this is an appropriate activities in material science and engineering. appointment as the department weighs adding tourism to the Dr. Sheila Harleston, has returned as the interim director of curriculum. choral activities and associate professor at the university.

Dr. Dandeson Panda, an associate professor in the Business, Harleston retired from UMES in 2011 after 21 years in the Management and Accounting Department, completed a Department of Fine Arts. She received bachelor and master business ethics course through the University of New Mexico’s degrees from Norfolk State University and a doctorate from Anderson School of Management. The 36-hour online class Wilmington University. After retiring from UMES, Harleston is part of the school’s career and professional development joined the executive board of the I. Sherman Green Chorale Inc., in Norfolk program. and also became the director of the semi-professional group during its 40th anniversary season. Harleston was the recipient of the National Association Dr. Joshua Wright, an assistant professor in the Department of Negro Musicians award for performing and promoting the music of black of Social Sciences, was among 25 applicants selected from musicians. She looks forward to again “working with talented and dedicated thousands to attend the National Endowment for the students as director of the UMES Concert Choir.”

Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Susan Holt is the Mosely Gallery’s new director. Holt, Teachers at Harvard University. The prestigious, month-long however, is not new to the UMES community. She has been an institute was hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of adjunct instructor in the Department of Fine Arts since 2002 Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and Africanand has also taught in the Art and the Modern Foreign American Research. Through readings and discussion, participants focused Languages departments at Salisbury University. Holt received on African-American struggles for freedom and civil rights. a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Correction: (Sept. 6, 2013 issue) Dr. Gurdeep Hura is a professor of math and Arbor, and a master’s from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has an computer science. He served as chair from 2006-2011.

Dr. Marcos Cheney, associate professor of environmental

Benefits open enrollment for fiscal year 2014 is fast approaching!

Open Enrollment Period: Oct. 1-16 Correction Period: Oct. 22-31 Materials will be coming to faculty and staff via interdepartmental mail.

Direct questions to Betty Fosque, benefits coordinator, 410-651-6403, bafosque@umes.edu.

Faculty Assembly 2013-14 officers Nina Lyon Bennett, chair E. William Chapin, chair-elect Lombuso Khoza, secretary Joseph Bree, parliamentarian Peter Stanford, treasurer

UMES Senate officers LaKeisha Harris, chair David Spinner, vice chair Lombuso Khoza, secretary Joseph Bree, parliamentarian

UMES National Alumni Association elects new slate of officers The UMES National Alumni Association has elected a new slate of executive officers that will serve until 2015. Dr. Bryant Mitchell, ’78, associate professor in the university’s Department of Business, Management and Accounting, is the organization’s new president.

The other 2013 – 2015 executive officers of the UMES National Alumni Association are: • Diana Rogers-Ford, ‘69 1st vice president • Joanne Johnson-Shaw, ‘72 2nd vice president • Pamela A. McCullough, ‘99 3rd vice president • Robert McGlotten, ‘75 4th vice president • Thomas Holt, DDS, ‘93 parliamentarian • Richard Jones, ‘76 treasurer • George Trotter, ‘68 sergeant at arms • Kia Roberts, ‘05 recording secretary • Michael T. Moore, ‘08 corresponding secretary NAA officers serve an alumni community of more than 10,000 members, keeping them abreast of news and updates that affect or relate to the life of the university.

The association is “a united, dynamic and diverse organization whose mission is to serve and add value to the University, its students, fellow alumni, local chapters” and its friends.

For more information or to join the UMES NAA please go to: www.umesnaa.org.

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UMES celebrates Founders’ Week with events for campus and community Outdoor concert a Founders’ Week tradition

Mosely Gallery kicks off year with faculty show

Mother Nature provided a lovely evening for the outdoor concert, a Founders’ Week tradition. This year’s event took on a patriotic theme in observance of Sept. 11. The UMES Jazz Ensemble and Gospel Choir performed along with students doing patriotic spoken word.

Concert-goers were given American Flags.

Department of Fine Arts faculty member Michel Demanche studies works by fellow faculty members in the Mosely Gallery show, “Points of View,” during the opening reception Sept. 6. The exhibit remains on display through Oct. 4.

Attorney (and 1974 Alumnus) presents lecture Sherman Lambert, an attorney and alumnus (1974), presented a lecture, “In Search of Justice” Sept. 10 during Founders’ Week activities. His presentation examined social justice through recent court cases.

UMES recognizes Founders’ Day with convocation

Students get a glimpse of a variety of faculty artworks. Pictured in the foreground are Ernest Satchell’s raku pottery; the back right, Department Chair Christopher Harrington’s resin and pigment paintings; and the back left, Corinne Beardsley’s ceramic sculpture. Several faculty members also recently exhibited in the Art Institute and Gallery’s Regional Juried Exhibition. Harrington took second place and the Award of Excellence for his mixed media, Demanche received an honorable mention for her photography and Susan Holt, the Mosley Gallery’s new director, displayed her drawings.

Students vs. faculty and staff softball game

Historic tour offers glimpse into past

Rhett Burden, an area director with the Office of Residence Life, and Dr. Kathryn Barrett-Gaines, associate professor of African and AfricanAmerican history, portray UMES’ two founders during the annual Light Night on the Academic Oval.

UMES President Juliette B. Bell threw out the first pitch at the student/faculty softball game on Friday the 13th. Who was on the receiving end of the bad luck?

Students, 0, faculty 15. Better luck next year.

From left, Dr. Anthony Jenkins, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management; Phillip Harrison, Campus Life, UMES alumnus; and Dr. Dale Wesson, vice president for technology and commercialization joined the faculty/staff team.

Students fill the dug-out for a high-spirited game of softball against the faculty, staff and administration.

UMES observed its 127th Founders’ Day with a convocation and Photos by Jim Glovier commencement for 26 doctorate candidates in the school’s physical therapy program.

The students, 22 of whom are from Maryland and seven of which hail from the Eastern Shore, donned traditional caps and gowns to receive the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree after three years of study. Graduates then have one more hurdle to clear—passing the national licensing exam. UMES has an envious record of producing graduates who earn the credential on the first try, said Dr. Raymond L. Blakely, the program’s founder and chair. Following licensure, they will enter the healthcare field as physical therapists in hospitals, senior care facilities and the private sector with home health providers.

Dr. Juliette B. Bell, the university’s 15th leader, gave the Founders’ Day address. During the ceremony, Dr. Leon Copeland of Salisbury received the Faculty Emeriti award.

Copeland retired from the university a year ago after a 35-year career in the Department of Technology, where he most recently served as chair in addition to professor. He was recognized for his individual achievements and leadership.

During his tenure, the Department of Technology earned accreditation with the American Council for Construction Education for the school’s

Street Sweep unites Town & Gown for worthy project Jamell Stanley takes “Street Sweep” literally. He joined members of the baseball team and pharmacy cleaning up Main Street. UMES construction management students volunteered their time at the Princess Anne Police Department, discussing needs with officials and designing a plan for an outbuilding. The women’s basketball team and students and faculty from the Department of Technology planted flowers and vegetables at the Garland Hayward Youth Center and the men’s basketball team assisted with the food drive at the Seton Center and discussed the potential for a mentoring program there UMES President Juliette B. Bell congratulates students for showing up on a Saturday morning (Sept. 7) to pitch in for a day of service in Princess Anne ending with lunch and music in Manokin Park. Ayanna Evans, event organizer, said “there was good representation from student organizations, athletic teams, faculty and staff, and individuals.”

A Princess Anne Police Department cruiser is filled with donated food from members of the UMES community and town residents. Frederick Douglass Library and Department of Education faculty and staff raised the bar when it came to collecting items, Evans said.

Construction Management program and the National Association for Accreditation of Teacher Education for the Technology Education program.

He established off-campus programs in construction management technology at the Universities at Shady Grove in Montgomery County and in career and technology education at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Following convocation, wreath laying and birthday cake cutting ceremonies ensued. Home Depot presented a check for $10,000 representing the school’s award in their campus improvement grant contest—Retool Your School.

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Hawks club football squad puts up spirited fight in season opener

By Airis D. Thomas, As hard as the Hawks fought, it special correspondent was just not enough, however, to keep UMES’s club football team the neighboring school out of the end opened its sophomore season on the zone; by the end of the third quarter road this past Sunday against the the score was 49-12.

Salisbury University Seagulls. Despite Coach Mitchell had high praise a hard fought first half, the Hawks for the Hawks’ season-opening were unable to keep up in the second opponent, characterizing the Salisbury half and fell by a final of 63-12. squad as “the best team in the country, Captain Josh White, a defensive and we played them so we could see end, said “we played to the end and where our guys are and I think we are Runningback Brandon Chatmon sweeps past that’s all we can do. It was a learning going to have a good season.” two Salisbury University defenders for a big gain experience for most of us and now we during Sunday’s season opener for UMES club The Hawks, he said, “played as football.

Chatmon is a freshman engineering know what we need to work on so we hard as they could, given that they student from Waldorf, Md. can come back next time and pull out only had two weeks of practice. a win.”

Otherwise it was a very good effort. The coaches have to work on a few Even though the Hawks trailed throughout much of the game, fan things so we can learn some things too. support was strong from start to finish. The Thunderin’ Hawks Pep Band “This also gave the guys who never played before a chance to see what kept several hundred UMES faithful energized by playing throughout the a real game feels like; you can’t just play 15 minutes or 10 you have to play game, finishing its last song with the school’s alma mater. the whole game,” Mitchell said.

UMES trailed 35-12 at halftime, but the team stayed optimistic hoping Student government president Justin Thompson was pleased by the fan to come out in the second half stronger than they did in the first. Entering support for the opening game – the visitors’ bleachers were full and nearly the locker room, quarterback Mark Williams was positive, “the offense was as many stood along the fence on Hawks’ side of the field. working pretty well, but so is Salisbury, so we need to come back strong.”

“I think the game is going well,” Thompson said, “and the students One of the Hawk highlights occurred in the second quarter, when are showing support for their Hawks.”

Kenyon Turner snagged an interception and returned it for a touchdown.

After a week off, the Hawks travel to Longwood University in Farmville, The extra point failed.

Va. on Sept. 28 for their next game.

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The ceremony was held on the 12th anniversary of the horrific suicide attacks mounted by Islamic terrorists, which Bell noted in her remarks.

“As we remember the lives of those we lost, we also celebrate the heroism of the first responders and the lives that gained new meaning and found new purpose that day to make our nation stronger,” Bell said.

Maryland’s legislature earlier this year approved an allocation of $22.7 million from the sale of revenue bonds to be the first installment toward the $91.5 million project. It will be the first classroom building built on the UMES campus since 2003.

Tanner Hall, an early 1960s-era building where aviation science currently is headquartered, has 3,800 “net assignable square feet” of space on one floor. Engineering and computer science students and faculty currently occupy the two-story Kiah Hall, a building that opened in 1953 as a public secondary school.

William Wrobel, director of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, said the

space agency has big plans for expanding its programs in Virginia and is excited about UMES’ new building and the engineering program’s recent accreditation.

“We need your engineering students to be part of that exciting future,” Wrobel said.

The new classroom building will be fitted with an eco-friendly geothermal heating and cooling system. In addition to classrooms, labs and faculty offices, the new building will feature conference rooms, a library, media production facilities, a lounge and central computing services. The dean of graduate studies and the dean of business and technology school also will have offices there.

U N I V E R S I T Y o f M A RY L A N D E A S T E R N S H O R E Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management • Office of Career Services & Cooperative Education A UMES professional should select business professional or casual professional attire when attending any job fair.

Career/Graduate Professional School Fair Thursday, September 26, 2013 11 a.m.—3 p.m. / SSC Ballroom

STUDENT ID REQUIRED. NO JEANS. NO SNEAKERS.

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Meet Miss UMES Porsha Harvey,

Security consultants provide independent review

a senior majoring in rehabilitation services Newark, Del.

A team of consultants visited UMES a week ago fulfilling UMES President Juliette B. Bell’s pledge earlier this year to commission an independent review of the university’s security policies and procedures.

Employees of Risk Management Associates Inc. observed everyday campus life as well as interviewed students, faculty, staff and other university stakeholders. Consultants worked around-the-clock, according to Risk Management’s Michael R. Longmire.

While 50-to-60 interviews were pre-arranged, Longmire said, those comments will be supplemented by conversations consultants had with people during impromptu encounters.

Longmire noted no directly attributable comments from interviews will appear in the report that the company is producing for the university.

Risk Management Associates, based in Raleigh, N.C., has done similar security analyses for Duke, N.C. State and Winston-Salem State universities.

In addition to interviews, the consultants will evaluate the university police department’s policies and procedures as well as current technology used to alert the campus of important information.

Why did you choose to run for Miss UMES? What is your platform?

I have grown to love this university. I have set goals and reached beyond what I have ever imagined. I want to encourage my peers anything is possible! My platform (focus is) “professionalism, outreach, integrity, service and originality to navigate, to our individual success.”

What are your goals this year?

First, be successful in my studies; second, get the community more involved and excited about the university; third, make this year a fun and memorable learning experience for the students.

What other leadership positions have you held?

I have served as a resident assistant for two years; I am on the board for the Hollerin' Hawks Committee, a street team that promotes student and athletic events.

What is the best advice you got as a freshman?

"If it is meant to be, it is up to me!" I want to pass this on to … every student here. Do the necessary, then go above and beyond to get what we want in life. If it is meant to be it is up to us.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

I see myself with a master’s in business administration pursuing a doctorate in psychology. I plan to work in disability services and develop my own business.

Undergraduate student receives award for research

Tell us about the traditional jewelry the UMES queen wears?

The pearl is a piece of jewelry that has been worn for daytime appearances, interviews and initiatives here at the university. A pearl is a hard object made with soft tissue and a sign of royalty familiar at historically black colleges and to subjects of the Queen Elizabeth of England.

What hit song/artist has your attention these days?

"Act Right" by Yo Gotti. We have a Hawk shuffle to that song that gets everyone moving!

UPDS marks move with an open house University Print and Document Services opened its doors Sept.

13 to show the campus its new location in the former Alumni House. UPDS staff pictured from left are Crystal Neal, Oral Telphia and Wossen Makonnen.

Sept. 19-27 stop

by UPDS fo r a special promotion: one-sided, letter size co lor copi for 35 cents. es

Ian Bottone, a senior majoring in general agriculture with a concentration in plant and soil science, won third place in an undergraduate research poster competition at the annual conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science in Palm Desert, Calif., in July.

His poster was titled, “Persistence of Urea in a Coastal Plain Soil: An Incubation Study.”

His research was based on determining if urea-based fertilizers and manures (including poultry litter) persist in soil after application long enough to cause water pollution. Bottone’s research will aid farmers in choosing which urea-based fertilizers pose the least risk of polluting the water bodies through runoff and leaching. Use of urea as a nitrogen source increased after ammonium nitrate was banned after the Oklahoma bombing incident.

Bottone’s faculty mentors were: Drs. Arthur Allen, Lurline Marsh, Fawzy Hashem, professors in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, and graduate student Leonard Kibet.

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Foodies are in for a treat this fall at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The school’s Hotel and Restaurant Management program presents its annual Gourmet Dining Series with dinners Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6.

New this year, said program chair Dr. Ernest Boger, is a Gourmet Dining Series ticket for $120 per person, which includes all three meals – a savings of $30. Tickets for individual meals are $50 per person. Tickets are on sale now.

The dinners are a final requirement in the Food Production coursework and practicum, Boger said. “Planning and management skills are emphasized as much as the culinary skills.”

This group of advanced culinary students is responsible for everything from the planning of the menu and ordering of ingredients to the food preparation.

“This year’s menu reflects the greatest variety in the history of the series as far as menu selection,” Boger said.

The first dinner Oct. 4 is themed, “A Night of Elegance” and features French, Italian and tropical cuisine. A seafood pumpkin bisque, foie gras roulade and Appleton rum mallard Gourmet Dining Series duck breast and tomato sorbet are openers. The entrée is a creamy dijon bouillabaisse of 7 p.m. snapper, shrimp, octopus, scallops and calamari with filetto di bue alle (beef tenderloin Richard A. Henson Center HRM students and faculty present “A Night of Elegance” with black olives). The accompaniment is a sweet peas and carrot parmigiano reggiano featuring French-Italian and sophisticated tropical dishes. polenta. The meal is topped off with a guava and passion fruit couverture chocolate cup with raspberry sauce. $50 per person or $120 for a gourmet series ticket.

Culinary Adventurism Nov. 1 offers just that—something out of the ordinary. The Tickets must be purchased in advance. meal starts off with Bayou turtle and autumn squash bisque and if followed by 410-651-6563 whiskey-brined grilled alligator tips flambé. A lemon sorbet clears the palate for a surf and turf comprised of a habanero lobster with a roasted bison medallion. The Art Exhibit entrée is accompanied by a caramelized onion scalloped potato and southern Opening Reception greens. Dessert is an orange bourbon maple flan.

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Mosely Gallery Sequential Art (Comic) Show 18 Hawk Hysteria Galley Hours: Mon. through Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

7 p.m.

Show on display until Nov. 8.

William P. Hytche Athletic Center 410-651-7770 Men’s and women’s basketball scrimmage. Give-a-ways, contests, games, autographs and Harry the Hawk’s Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert birthday party.

7 p.m.

410-651-6499 Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts UMES and Alumni jazz ensembles perform.

19* Tri-County Alumni Chapter Fall Fling 410-651-6571 7 p.m.

Richard A. Henson Center, ballroom Cost TBA. 410-651-6277

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31* UMES Fall Theater Production 7:30 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts “Miss Evers’ Boys,” a 1992 stage play by David Feldshuh.

Cost TBA 410-651-6575

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