University of Maryland Eastern Shore News

A federally funded program that provides outreach and technical assistance to minority farmers has been renewed for another three years at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

PRINCESS ANNE - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore will receive a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the purpose of providing help to socially disadvantaged farmers on the Eastern Shore.

Adonis Ajayi, a senior mathematics major at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore recently received a $1,000 scholarship.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Four evenings of food for the soul are planned for Tuesday-Friday as part of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Gospel Choir's annual revival beginning at 7 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center.

SALISBURY - Arvi Arunachalam, assistant professor of finance at Salisbury University, recently participated in a business colloquium at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

SALISBURY -- During the season of Advent, people scramble to prepare for Christmas Day by following a lengthy to-do list, which includes decorating the tree with ornaments, stringing lights around the house and purchasing gifts for loved ones.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- The Somerset branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met with Somerset County to make final recommendations for the representation of minorities in the workforce and in government.

Maryland will expand its efforts to redesign the college courses most responsible for stalling students' pursuit of degrees, using a $1 million grant from the Lumina Foundation.

PRINCESS ANNE - The Little Soup Kitchen on the county's northern end, and Marion Baptist Church to the south, are familiar Somerset County institutions to whom the community turns for food during the Thanksgiving season.

U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton's notability for human rights and feminist activism rivals her records in public office as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and, earlier, on the Washington City Council.

They've got to be one of the oddest-looking couples in rock: this big, hulking black man who looks like he just stepped off a football field, and this wiry, streetwise white guy, with his scruffy beard that, even when they met in the early 1970s, screamed beatnik chic.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is rolling out the red carpet for a Hollywood-style fundraiser that will bring five big-name celebrities to the school.

PRINCESS ANNE - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is rolling out the red carpet for some notable names who they say will attend a fundraising gala early next year.

Only 42 percent of black college students actually receive degrees, according to the latest statistics posted in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, and much of the focus of a national conference in Baltimore was on how to solve the problem.

WESTOVER -- Branches of Somerset County government already are moving toward satisfying a newly adopted vision driven by local and state civil rights groups to correct a long history of racial disparities in county hiring practices.

SALISBURY -- Trevor H. Jones of Berlin was recently hired as the dean of occupational education at Wor-Wic Community College.

Host Our Coast, a tourism initiative featuring an online contest and the use of social media to highlight local travel, was honored with two awards at the 29th annual Maryland Travel and Tourism Summit.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- Due to budget cuts, the Princess Anne police south substation will close by the end of the month.

SALISBURY -- Loney Brown Stewart Jr., 66, of Salisbury, and formerly of Mount Holly, N.J., died Friday, Nov.

High school juniors and seniors from as far away as New York are expected to show up at today's Tri-County College Fair hosted by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.