The Key October 17, 2014 Edition

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WELCOME PARENTS The Parents’ Association and Office of Alumni Affairs have planned a weekend filled with events to connect with the campus and your student or to reconnect with fellow alumni and friends.

Friday, parents can register and get information at the Student Services Center Rotunda from 1-5 p.m.

While you’re in the SSC, stop by the bookstore to get your “Maroon and Gray” on. Don’t miss Hawk Hysteria, from 6-10 p.m. in the William P. Hytche Athletic Center.

Volleyball takes on the Norfolk State Spartans, basketball scrimmages, autographs, games, contests, music and Harry the Hawk’s birthday are in store for fans.

Start the day Saturday with a meal with your student. Follow it up by rooting for the Hawks at the

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Club Football game 1 p.m. at Cappy Anderson Stadium when they take on George Mason University. The evening festivity is the coronation of Mr. and Miss UMES from 7-9 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.

Wrap up your weekend Sunday by attending the Interfaith Worship Service at 11 a.m. at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Princess Anne or consider taking your student to brunch from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Plateau Dining Hall in the Student Services Center, or at one of our local restaurants.

Stop by the Office of Alumni Affairs in the Student Services Center across from the UMES Bookstore for a complete list of alumni activities.

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We believe our students are unique. They are curious, passionate, involved, ambitious and interested in what’s ahead. A new campaign employing the slogan, “Are You The One?,” has been created to remind UMES students we think they are special—and to reach out to high school students to see if we are “The One” for them.

The campaign focuses on some of UMES’ niche and high profile programs by asking: • “Are you the one who cares?” promoting the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.

• “Are you the one who leads?” promoting Business and Organizational Leadership.

• “Are you the one who grows?” promoting the School of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences.

• And more than a dozen other “Are you the one” slogans.

Look for new banners around Backbone Road, bus stop posters and new signage in the campus kiosks over the next few weeks. They will serve as a reminder to everyone that we think the contributions students make to our campus and to the world are important.

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Page 2 1st U.S. Woman to Walk in Space Speaks at UMES Former U.N. Ambassador to Lecture

Page 3 P.A. Chair Takes Post Innovation Fellow Named

Page 4 James O’Barr Visits UMES Fall Play Scheduled

Page 5 UMES Hosts College Fair

Page 6 Hawk Hysteria Athletic Gear

Page 7 Career Fair School Supply Drive Club Football Schedule Flu Shots Offered on Campus

Page 8 Calendar of Events

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First U.S. woman to walk in space to speak at NOAA conference

Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, visits UMES Monday, Oct. 27, to participate in a national education and science forum that the university and a federal agency are co-hosting.

Sullivan will deliver a keynote address at NOAA’s Educational Partnership Program Forum, a biennial event that brings together science, technology, engineering and mathematics students, faculty and NOAA collaborators from around the country.

NOAA’s Education Partnership Program works closely with a network of Minority Serving Institutions – UMES among them – to build education and research capacity as well as train future scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technology professionals drawn from underrepresented populations.

UMES is the lead institution of the NOAA-funded Living Marine

Resources Cooperative Science Center, one of four such centers that work to advance collaborative research in NOAA-mission sciences. Each center focuses on one area of NOAA’s mission, including weather, satellites, coastal management and marine ecosystems.

Photo courtesy of Vernon Morris, Ph.D. EPP NCAS Flanked by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, UMES’ center conducts research on marine and estuarine ecosystems while training students for careers in research, management and public policy in those specialized, NOAAmission science fields.

Among Sullivan’s top priorities since being nominated by President Obama to lead the agency, has been to diversify the pipeline of students in NOAA-mission sciences for the future workforce. Another priority is providing environmental intelligence to help citizens, businesses and governments make smart choices.

Earlier this year, Time magazine named Sullivan one of its 100 Most Influential People. Retired U.S. Sen. John Glenn, a former astronaut,

Former U.N. ambassador to speak at UMES

Curtis A. Ward, former Jamaican ambassador to the United Nations, will be the next speaker Nov. 6 for the UMES Presidential Lecture Series. The hour-long lecture will be held at 11 a.m. in the Richard F. Hazel Hall, room 1020.

Ward, an attorney and consultant, will speak on the topic, “International Engagement.” He has travelled throughout the world for meetings with high-level government officials and specializes in national and international security law and policy, counter-terrorism legal and operational capacity assessments and solutions, international sanctions, rule of law and governance, geopolitical strategy analyses, international business transactions and international governmental relations.

“Ambassador Ward has served on the Security Council of the United Nations and is tremendously informed about international and regional security issues including counter-terrorism,” said Dr. Jennifer KeaneDawes, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and chair of the cultural

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affairs committee. “Attendees will hear about strategies that countries have adopted to deal with these issues and can confer with Ambassador Ward about solutions to threats facing the United States. We hope faculty, staff, students and members of the community will attend this significant event.”

Ward’s background is storied having served as a resource facilitator of the Geneva Games at the Geneva (Switzerland) Center for Security Policy (2007-2010), two years on the U.N. Security Council, a counter terrorism expert participant in the International Peace Institute’s task forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity (2008) and its retreat to examine Peace and Security Threats to Latin America and the Caribbean (2009) among others.

He holds a Master of Laws in international law from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a juris doctorate in business and international law from Howard University School of law.

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UMES student named Innovation Fellow

New PA chair: “We are clinicians first” Among Theresa A. Johnson’s first priorities as the new chair and program director of UMES’ Department of Physician Assistant studies is learning the names of all 74 graduate students as quickly as possible.

Yearbook-style photos of each are pinned to a bulletin board above her desk in her Spartan first-floor Hazel Hall office.

“I think I’ve made a good bit of progress… with second-year students, putting faces to names,” Johnson said. “Now I’ve got to focus on first-year.”

Johnson joined the UMES faculty Sept. 8 and has been so caught up in the whirlwind that accompanies the start of a new academic year she hasn’t had time to personalize her office or add books to a bookshelf.

“It goes with the territory, I guess,” Johnson said. “I knew it would be busy from Day One and I haven’t been disappointed.”

Johnson views the challenge of training the next generation of physician assistants through a prism that embraces a “we are clinicians first” approach.

“It’s important to keep that in mind,” she said. “That’s what I want our students to take away from their experience here.”

She previously worked for the Veterans Health Administration in Fayetteville, N.C., where she also taught at nearby Methodist University as well as worked in the private sector.

“Theresa is a strong addition to the school,” said Dr. Cynthia Boyle, interim dean of UMES’ School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. “She is systematic, strategic and goal-oriented.”

“Already, I can see her commitment to collaboration across professions,” Boyle said. “I appreciate her creativity and team-based approach that we aspire to develop in all health professions students.”

Born in New Jersey, Johnson grew up in public housing in Miami, Fla., the fourth of five children in a single-parent household.

She entered college at age 16, starting at the University of Florida, eventually transferring to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where she earned her undergraduate degree and physician assistant certification. Her Master of Science in Health Services Administration is from Barry University in Miami, which she earned while teaching full time as an assistant professor of physician assistant education. She currently is working on a doctorate in public health through Walden University.

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Nicholas Mutai, a junior from Kenya in the construction management technology program at UMES, joined a group of 58 U.S. college students in an innovation and entrepreneurial training session directed by Stanford University in California as the university’s second Innovation Fellow.

“Now I think differently, not the way I did before I came (to the U.S.),” Mutai said.

“There is so much that I have gathered and learned from my studies at UMES and from meeting the other students from around the country at the University Innovation Fellows (training).”

Like his predecessor, Jade Overton, Mutai plans to bring what he has learned back to campus and, in his case, back to his homeland.

The program is funded by the National Science Foundation and run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, or Epicenter.

Fellows are charged with being change agents at their schools working to ensure their peers “gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future.”

“It is so critical for students to have an entrepreneurial mindset in today’s economy,” Humera Fashihuddin, leader of the University Fellows program, said. “They need more than just technical skills to solve the big problems our world is facing,” Mutai was nominated by UMES administrators and faculty to represent the university.

“Nicholas is focused, hard-working, self-motivated, dependable and loves to explore and look for alternative solutions to challenges,” said Dr. Joseph O. Arumala, professor of technology and Mutai’s faculty sponsor. “He is an active member of Sigma Lambda Chi, the International Honor Society for Construction. He is quite fascinated with the current campus-wide campaign of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and wants to be part of a proposed ETeam that will explore solutions to challenges of the local building, farming, fishing and poultry industry.”

Mutai plans to build upon some of the concepts outlined by Overton, the university’s first fellow. “It is an ongoing process,” he said. The goals include: creating an entrepreneurship club with dedicated space for student innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, forming a speaker’s series, incorporating innovation principles in freshman experience courses and working toward creating a for-credit entrepreneurial course, and introducing mandatory senior year design projects as a graduation requirement.

“The thing that I feel would help progress our campus in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship the most, is to give students some design and entrepreneurial projects. They are not a requirement for most programs,” Mutai said. “After successful completion of such projects, students would have explored almost all of the design-thinking procedures.” The projects could be done, he said, through each year of study with the freshman year being the introduction and the senior year, the capstone project.

Mutai’s first plan of action (after mid-term exams, of course) is to start with his own department by meeting with stakeholders to discuss the possibilities. From there, he is hoping to spread the concepts to other departments and eventually to his country.

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“It’s not every day you get to meet someone like James O’Barr,” Sean Milbourne, a junior in the Fine Arts Department, said. “It’s really awesome to have the creator of such a staple film (of the supernatural action genre) like ‘The Crow’ here on campus. It gives me greater hope as a sequential artist.”

Milbourne and other students got to show their portfolios to O’Barr during the artist’s two-day visit Oct. 6 and 7, which included a meet-the-artist opening reception, a screening of the movie, “The Crow,” and workshops for art students including a painting demonstration.

“He’s so famous,” Milbourne said. “Talking to him, I’ve stumbled on my words no less than 15 times. I don’t want to come off as too amateur, but at the same time, I want to pick his brain.”

Packed around him, the students did just that as they queried the graphic artist on his technique. “Always pencil first—you wouldn’t build a house without the wood frame first,” O’Barr told them. “There’s no magic tool, just practice. You have to do it all the time.”

“I ink all my own stuff,” he said. “Not many people use brush anymore. It’s about line, weight and pressure A lot of people use digital, but it looks flat with no life to it and they try to use color to make up for it.

Once you learn the rules, then you can break them.”

And the difference shows.

UMES presents “A RAISIN IN THE SUN” Oct. 30- Nov. 1 7:30 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts

Milbourne was one of the lucky students chosen to help Mosely Gallery director Susan Holt frame the 30 original works of art selected by O’Barr for the exhibit.

“You can look at the art online, but it doesn’t hold a candle to seeing the original artworks with the brush strokes and holding them. It’s like having a piece of the artist’s heart or mind in your hands.”

When talking to students, O’Barr said he tries to be positive. “But I want them to know the reality that it is difficult to make money at it (sequential art illustration). It’s not a hobby, you have to treat it like a job and go to the drawing board every day whether you feel like it or not. You always have to be in the top of your game.”

“It’s important to expose students to professionals like O’Barr and to see their original work,” Holt said. “The show compliments our rather unique sequential arts program.”

“Dark Dreams” is on display Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Mosely Gallery in the Thomas Briggs Arts and Technology Building at UMES. The show closes Thursday, Oct. 30 with a Halloween Eve costume party from 4-6 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. Call 410-651-7770 or visit www.moselygallery.com for more information.

The production is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry and is directed by Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson, who has served as director of UMES’ Drama Society for 38 years.

The plays’ name was adopted from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” that explores what happens when dreams are not pursued or fulfilled.

The plot follows the Youngers’, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago struggling to live the American dream. The family is waiting on an insurance check for $10,000 following the death of the father. Each family member anticipates how they will spend the money when it arrives.

“Values, dreams, future aspirations and more are challenged as decisions need to be made throughout the drama,” Dameron-Johnson said.

Tickets are sold at the door; $5 for general admission, $3 seniors and $2 for students with ID. Call 410-651-6571 for more information.

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Tri-County College Fair an annual community service

High school juniors and seniors can connect with some 100 colleges at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Tri-County College Fair. The event, in its 13th year, is free and takes place Thurs., Oct. 30, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the William P. Hytche Athletic Center.

Students can get information on a wide range of options to consider, Tyrone Young, UMES’ director of admissions and recruitment, said. Adding to the traditional mix of public and private four-year colleges are technical and community colleges, specialty schools and branches of the military services.

“The university is proud to provide this valuable service to the community each year,” Young said. “It provides area students with a way to meet with representatives from across the country in one location here on Delmarva—a one-stop shop for higher education.” Prospective college students, he said, can learn about admissions requirements and procedures, areas of academic study, scholarships and other opportunities.

UMES faculty from the various academic departments will also be on hand to recruit students for the Fall 2015 semester and beyond. Campus tours and display booths will highlight what the university has to offer, Young said.

Admission is free. Registration is recommended by calling 410-651-8403.

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penned the magazine’s tribute under the headline “World’s Weatherwoman.”

“Kathy is not just an ivory-tower scientist,” he wrote. “She was part of NASA’s first class of female astronauts, selected in 1978, and went on to fly three shuttle missions. She is the first American woman to walk in space and served aboard the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.”

Glenn called Sullivan “the right person for the right job at the right time.”

Sullivan is also an accomplished oceanographer and served as NOAA’s Chief Scientist in 1993, during which time she oversaw a research and technology portfolio that included fisheries biology, climate change, satellite instrumentation and marine biodiversity.

Her bachelor’s degree in earth sciences is from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She earned her doctorate in geology from Dalhousie University in Canada.

Congressman Andy Harris, whose district rings much of the Chesapeake Bay, has accepted an invitation to attend the forum with Sullivan. Sullivan is expected to highlight the successes of UMES’ collaboration with NOAA and address the sustainability of Chesapeake Bay resources.

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Johnson has worked as a clinician for 30 years in the private sector, including a hospital setting, as well as in the classroom since 1997.

“I believe doing both has enabled me to stay connected to what’s going on in the field and being able to share what I see and hear with students,” she said.

Johnson spent a year-and-half in England, where she helped an institution establish physician assistant training. That experience provided her with a different perspective and convinced her that there are aspects of value in health care delivery that can be found in socialized medicine as there is strength and value in the United States’ approach.

UMES’ PA students in the Class of 2016 got a glimpse of Johnson’s personality outside the classroom at their Sept. 27 white coat presentation ceremony, where she delivered an original, free-form poem instead of a speech.

She told the gathering writing poetry is an outlet to relax.

Johnson considered other offers to return to teaching, but agreed to take the UMES leadership post because “it is a place to reconnect.” UMES, she said, is “an opportunity to grow professionally and grow the profession.”

“Being a physician assistant has been good to me,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve been able to touch so many lives.”

“If I was going to do this much work,” she said, “I wanted to do it at an institution committed to the profession and dedicated to educating underrepresented groups in the health profession for the PA workforce.”

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Joining a tradition of basketball programs across the county, UMES fans will gather for the first official practice of the upcoming season Oct. 17 at Hawk Hysteria.

The signature event for “Hawktoberfest,” parents’ and alumni weekend, begins at 6 p.m. in the William P. Hytche Athletic Center with volleyball taking on the Norfolk State Spartans in a MEAC conference matchup.

Then the party starts. OC 104’s Bill Baker and Force One Productions provide music while fans enjoy getting team autographs and participating in games and contests. UMES’ cheerleaders, the Diamonds and Ambiance dance squads, Greek organizations and the Thunderin’ Hawks Pep Band all perform.

Former members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams will be honored along with the 2014 bowling team for its MEAC championship and 11th straight NCAA appearance. The night comes to a close with scrimmages and skill contests featuring both

basketball teams.

"The Lady Hawks have worked hard all preseason and it is an opportunity for them to get out and showcase their talent," women’s basketball head coach Fred Batchelor said.

Hawk Hysteria will be a first for new men’s basketball coach Bobby Collins, who comes to Princess Anne following a successful run at Winston-Salem (N.C.) State. UMES fans will be watching him “like a Hawk” to see what he will bring to the program.

Hawk Hysteria would not be complete without celebrating UMES mascot Harry the Hawk’s birthday.

Rumblings are in the air that the 2014 edition will be special. Show up to find out what the buzz is about.

The following day, Saturday, Oct. 18, the 2014-15 edition of the Hawks baseball team hosts an alumni game at noon at Hawks Stadium. On Sunday, volleyball hosts a home match against Rt. 13 rival Delaware State.

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Career Services hosts Professional Fair

Nearly 500 students attended the Fall Career and Graduate Professional School Fair Oct. 2. Students networked with more than 60 representatives for summer internships, jobs and graduate school programs.

School supply drive beneďŹ ts local youngsters

The PRMC Wagner Wellness Van will deliver

FLU SHOTS Tuesday, October 28 10 a.m.- 2 p.m Student Services Center circle by the Theater entrance

The UMES Office of Residence Life organized a school supply drive for students at Greenwood Elementary School. From left, Rhett Burden, Sierra Ragsdale-Miller, Simone Mercer, Juan Harrison, Naomi Glen, Mengie Muluh and Jered Brown sponsored an outdoor party at Hawks Pointe Oct. 9 where some 500 unused or new supplies were collected.

Free for UMES students with valid Hawk Card. $10 for faculty, staff and members of the community.

You must be 18 years of age or older to receive a flu shot.

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Hawk Hysteria 6 -10 p.m.

Men’s and women’s basketball scrimmage.

Give-a-ways, contests, games, autographs and Harry the Hawk’s birthday party. 410-651-6499

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Ocean City, Md. Donate or join the UMES Physician Assistant program’s team at www.makingstrides.acsevents.org and click on the Ocean City event and team UMES PAs.

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Fall Theatre Production* 7:30 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center UMES’ Drama Society presents “A RAISIN IN THE SUN” $5 general admission, $3 seniors, $2 students w/ID 410-651-6571

Art Exhibit Opening Reception 4-6 p.m.

Mosely Gallery “EcoArt: Intersections of Art, Science and Activism.”

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

Show on display through Nov. 26.

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Richard F. Hazel Hall, Room 1020 Lecture on EcoArt by Mark Cooley, professor of new media at James Mason University. www.moselygallery.com /410-651-7770

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UMES Concert Choir Performance 4 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571

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William P. Hytche Athletic Center High school juniors and seniors can meet with reps from over 100 colleges. 410-651-6411

Art Exhibit Closing Costume Party 4 - 6 p.m.

William P. Hytche Athletic Center Volleyball takes on Norfolk State Spartans.

Making Strides 9 a.m. 5K Run; 9:30 a.m. 5K Walk

Tri-County College Fair 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Mosely Gallery Get in the spirit of Halloween at a costume party to close the exhibit of James O’Barr, graphic novelist of “The Crow.” www.moselygallery.com /410-651-7770

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Fall Theatre Production* 7:30 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center UMES’ Drama Society presents “A RAISIN IN THE SUN” $5 general admission, $3 seniors, $2 students w/ID. 410-651-6571

UMES Wind Ensemble Concert 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571

World Music Concert 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center Foty Fusion performs a blend of Middle Eastern & American rhythms and sounds and debke, a traditional dance.410-651-6543

UMES Jazz Ensemble Concert 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571

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International Student Ethnic Festival 11 a.m.

Student Services Center Ballroom 410-651-6079

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UMES Jazz ComboChamber Ensemble Recital 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571