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Page 3P.A. Chair Takes PostInnovation Fellow Named

Page 4James O’Barr Visits UMESFall Play Scheduled

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Page 6Hawk HysteriaAthletic Gear

Page 7Career FairSchool Supply DriveClub Football ScheduleFlu Shots Offered on Campus

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We believe our students areunique. They are curious,passionate, involved, ambitious andinterested in what’s ahead. A newcampaign employing the slogan,“Are You The One?,” has beencreated to remind UMES studentswe think they are special—and toreach out to high school studentsto see if we are “The One” forthem.

The campaign focuses onsome of UMES’ niche and highprofile programs by asking:

• “Are you the one whocares?” promoting theSchool of Pharmacy and Health Professions.

• “Are you the one who leads?” promoting Business andOrganizational 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 serveas a reminder to everyone that we think the contributions students make toour campus and to the world are important.

The Parents’ Association and Office of AlumniAffairs have planned a weekend filled with events toconnect with the campus and your student or toreconnect with fellow alumni and friends.

Friday, parents can register and get information atthe Student Services Center Rotunda from 1-5 p.m.While you’re in the SSC, stop by the bookstore to getyour “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, basketballscrimmages, autographs, games, contests, music andHarry the Hawk’s birthday are in store for fans.

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

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

Wrap up your weekend Sunday by attending theInterfaith Worship Service at 11 a.m. at MetropolitanUnited Methodist Church in Princess Anne or considertaking your student to brunch from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in thePlateau Dining Hall in the Student Services Center, or atone of our local restaurants.

Stop by the Office of Alumni Affairs in the StudentServices Center across from the UMES Bookstore for acomplete list of alumni activities.

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ALUMNIWEEKENDOCT. 17-19

Curtis A. Ward, former Jamaican ambassador to theUnited Nations, will be the next speaker Nov. 6 for the UMESPresidential Lecture Series. The hour-long lecture will be heldat 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 theworld for meetings with high-level government officials andspecializes in national and international security law andpolicy, counter-terrorism legal and operational capacityassessments and solutions, international sanctions, rule of lawand governance, geopolitical strategy analyses, internationalbusiness transactions and international governmentalrelations.

“Ambassador Ward has served on the Security Council of the UnitedNations and is tremendously informed about international and regionalsecurity issues including counter-terrorism,” said Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and chair of the cultural

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Dr.Kathryn D.Sullivan,Under Secretaryof Commercefor Oceans andAtmosphere andNOAAAdministrator,visits UMESMonday, Oct. 27, to participate in a national education and science forumthat the university and a federal agency are co-hosting.

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

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

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

affairs committee. “Attendees will hear about strategiesthat countries have adopted to deal with these issuesand can confer with Ambassador Ward about solutionsto threats facing the United States. We hope faculty, staff,students and members of the community will attend thissignificant event.”

Ward’s background is storied having served as aresource facilitator of the Geneva Games at the Geneva(Switzerland) Center for Security Policy (2007-2010),two years on the U.N. Security Council, a counterterrorism expert participant in the International PeaceInstitute’s task forces on Strengthening Multilateral

Security Capacity (2008) and its retreat to examine Peace and SecurityThreats to Latin America and the Caribbean (2009) among others.

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

ResourcesCooperativeScience Center,one of four suchcenters thatwork to advancecollaborativeresearch inNOAA-missionsciences. Eachcenter focuseson one area ofNOAA’s mission,includingweather,satellites,coastalmanagementand marineecosystems.

Flanked bythe Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, UMES’ center conducts researchon marine and estuarine ecosystems while training students for careers inresearch, management and public policy in those specialized, NOAA-mission science fields.

Among Sullivan’s top priorities since being nominated by PresidentObama to lead the agency, has been to diversify the pipeline of students inNOAA-mission sciences for the future workforce. Another priority isproviding environmental intelligence to help citizens, businesses andgovernments make smart choices.

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

Former U.N. ambassador to speak at UMES

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

NOAH / CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

Photo courtesy of Vernon Morris, Ph.D. EPP NCAS

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3The Key / October 17, 2014U M E S P E O P L E

Among Theresa A. Johnson’s first priorities as the new chair andprogram director of UMES’ Department of Physician Assistant studies islearning the names of all 74 graduate students as quickly as possible.

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

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

Johnson joined the UMES faculty Sept. 8 and has been so caught upin the whirlwind that accompanies the start of a new academic year shehasn’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 wouldbe busy from Day One and I haven’t been disappointed.”

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

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

She previously worked for the Veterans Health Administration inFayetteville, N.C., where she also taught at nearby Methodist University aswell 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. “Sheis systematic, strategic and goal-oriented.”

“Already, I can see her commitment to collaboration acrossprofessions,” Boyle said. “I appreciate her creativity and team-basedapproach 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 whereshe earned her undergraduate degree and physician assistantcertification. Her Master of Science in Health Services Administration isfrom Barry University in Miami, which she earned while teaching fulltime as an assistant professor of physician assistant education. Shecurrently is working on a doctorate in public health through WaldenUniversity.

Nicholas Mutai, a junior from Kenyain the construction management technologyprogram at UMES, joined a group of 58 U.S.college students in an innovation andentrepreneurial training session directed byStanford University in California as theuniversity’s second Innovation Fellow.

“Now I think differently, not the way I didbefore I came (to the U.S.),” Mutai said.“There is so much that I have gathered andlearned from my studies at UMES and frommeeting the other students from around the country at the UniversityInnovation Fellows (training).”

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

The program is funded by the National Science Foundation and run bythe National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, or Epicenter.Fellows are charged with being change agents at their schools working toensure their peers “gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required tocompete in the economy of the future.”

“It is so critical for students to have an entrepreneurial mindset in today’seconomy,” Humera Fashihuddin, leader of the University Fellows program,said. “They need more than just technical skills to solve the big problemsour world is facing,”

Mutai was nominated by UMES administrators and faculty to representthe university.

“Nicholas is focused, hard-working, self-motivated, dependable andloves to explore and look for alternative solutions to challenges,” said Dr.Joseph O. Arumala, professor of technology and Mutai’s faculty sponsor. “Heis an active member of Sigma Lambda Chi, the International Honor Society forConstruction. He is quite fascinated with the current campus-wide campaignof Innovation and Entrepreneurship and wants to be part of a proposed E-Team 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 goalsinclude: creating an entrepreneurship club with dedicated space for studentinnovation and entrepreneurship on campus, forming a speaker’s series,incorporating innovation principles in freshman experience courses andworking toward creating a for-credit entrepreneurial course, and introducingmandatory senior year design projects as a graduation requirement.

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

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

New PA chair: “We are clinicians first”

UMES student namedInnovation Fellow

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“It’s not every dayyou get to meetsomeone like JamesO’Barr,” SeanMilbourne, a junior inthe Fine ArtsDepartment, said. “It’sreally awesome to havethe creator of such astaple film (of thesupernatural actiongenre) like ‘The Crow’here on campus. It givesme greater hope as asequential artist.”

Milbourne andother students got toshow their portfolios toO’Barr during theartist’s two-day visit Oct.6 and 7, which included a meet-the-artist opening reception, ascreening of the movie, “The Crow,” and workshops for art studentsincluding a painting demonstration.

“He’s so famous,” Milbourne said. “Talking to him, I’ve stumbled onmy 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 thegraphic artist on his technique. “Always pencil first—you wouldn’t build ahouse without the wood frame first,” O’Barr told them. “There’s no magictool, just practice. You have to do it all the time.”

“I ink all my own stuff,” he said. “Not many people use brushanymore. It’s about line, weight and pressure A lot of people use digital, butit 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.

Milbourne was oneof the lucky studentschosen to help MoselyGallery director SusanHolt frame the 30original works of artselected by O’Barr forthe exhibit.

“You can look atthe art online, but it

doesn’t hold acandle to seeingthe originalartworks with thebrush strokes andholding them. It’slike having a pieceof the artist’s heartor mind in yourhands.”

When talkingto students,

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

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

“Dark Dreams” is on display Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5p.m. in the Mosely Gallery in the Thomas Briggs Arts and TechnologyBuilding at UMES. The show closes Thursday, Oct. 30 with a Halloween Evecostume party from 4-6 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. Call410-651-7770 or visit www.moselygallery.com for more information.

UMES presents

“A RAISIN IN THE SUN”

Oct. 30- Nov. 1

7:30 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts

The production is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway play by LorraineHansberry and is directed by Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson, who has servedas 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 onthe South Side of Chicago struggling to live the American dream. The familyis waiting on an insurance check for $10,000 following the death of thefather. Each family member anticipates how they will spend the money whenit arrives.

“Values, dreams, future aspirations and more are challenged asdecisions 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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High school juniors and seniors can connect with some100 colleges at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’sTri-County College Fair. The event, in its 13th year, is freeand 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 optionsto consider, Tyrone Young, UMES’ director of admissionsand recruitment, said. Adding to the traditional mix of publicand private four-year colleges are technical and communitycolleges, specialty schools and branches of the militaryservices.

“The university is proud to provide this valuable serviceto the community each year,” Young said. “It provides areastudents with a way to meet with representatives from acrossthe country in one location here on Delmarva—a one-stopshop for higher education.” Prospective college students, hesaid, can learn about admissions requirements andprocedures, areas of academic study, scholarships and otheropportunities.

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

Admission is free. Registration is recommended bycalling 410-651-8403.

Tri-County College Fair an annual community service

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

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

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

Sullivan is also an accomplished oceanographer and served asNOAA’s Chief Scientist in 1993, during which time she oversaw aresearch 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 ofCalifornia at Santa Cruz. She earned her doctorate in geology fromDalhousie University in Canada.

Congressman Andy Harris, whose district rings much of theChesapeake Bay, has accepted an invitation to attend the forum withSullivan. Sullivan is expected to highlight the successes of UMES’collaboration with NOAA and address the sustainability of ChesapeakeBay 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 onin 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 institutionestablish physician assistant training. That experience provided her with adifferent perspective and convinced her that there are aspects of value in healthcare delivery that can be found in socialized medicine as there is strength andvalue in the United States’ approach.

UMES’ PA students in the Class of 2016 got a glimpse of Johnson’spersonality outside the classroom at their Sept. 27 white coat presentationceremony, 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 takethe 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 enjoyedit. 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 aninstitution committed to the profession and dedicated to educating under-represented groups in the health profession for the PA workforce.”

basketball teams."The Lady Hawks have worked hard

all preseason and it is an opportunity forthem to get out and showcase theirtalent," women’s basketball head coachFred Batchelor said.

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

Hawk Hysteria would not becomplete without celebrating UMESmascot Harry the Hawk’s birthday.Rumblings are in the air that the 2014edition will be special. Show up to findout what the buzz is about.

The following day, Saturday, Oct. 18,the 2014-15 edition of the Hawksbaseball team hosts an alumni game at

noon at Hawks Stadium. On Sunday, volleyball hosts a home match againstRt. 13 rival Delaware State.

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Joining a tradition of basketballprograms across the county, UMES fanswill gather for the first official practice ofthe upcoming season Oct. 17 at HawkHysteria.

The signature event for“Hawktoberfest,” parents’ and alumniweekend, begins at 6 p.m. in the WilliamP. Hytche Athletic Center with volleyballtaking on the Norfolk State Spartans in aMEAC conference matchup.

Then the party starts. OC 104’s BillBaker and Force One Productionsprovide music while fans enjoy gettingteam autographs and participating ingames and contests. UMES’ cheerleaders,the Diamonds and Ambiance dancesquads, Greek organizations and theThunderin’ Hawks Pep Band all perform.

Former members of the men’s andwomen’s basketball teams will behonored along with the 2014 bowlingteam for its MEAC championship and 11th straight NCAA appearance. Thenight comes to a close with scrimmages and skill contests featuring both

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Career Services hosts Professional Fair

Nearly 500 students attended the Fall Career and Graduate Professional School FairOct. 2. Students networked with more than 60 representatives for summerinternships, jobs and graduate school programs. The PRMC Wagner Wellness Van

will deliver

FLU SHOTSTuesday, October 28

10 a.m.- 2 p.mStudent Services Center

circle by the Theater entrance

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.

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

School supply drive benefits local youngsters

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Hawk Hysteria 6 -10 p.m.William P. Hytche Athletic CenterVolleyball takes on Norfolk State Spartans.

Men’s and women’s basketball scrimmage.

Give-a-ways, contests, games, autographs and

Harry the Hawk’s birthday party. 410-651-6499

Making Strides 9 a.m. 5K Run; 9:30 a.m. 5K WalkOcean 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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Tri-County College Fair9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.William P. Hytche Athletic CenterHigh school juniors and seniors can meet with reps from over

100 colleges. 410-651-6411

Art Exhibit Closing Costume Party4 - 6 p.m.Mosely GalleryGet 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

Fall Theatre Production*7:30 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald CenterUMES’ Drama Society presents “A RAISIN IN THE SUN”$5 general admission, $3 seniors,$2 students w/ID. 410-651-6571

1Fall 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/ID410-651-6571

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. 26.3 p.m.Richard F. Hazel Hall, Room 1020Lecture on EcoArt by Mark Cooley, professor of new media at

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NOVEMBER

UMES WindEnsemble Concert

7 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571

World Music Concert7 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Center Foty Fusion performs a blend of Middle Eastern &American rhythms and sounds and debke, atraditional dance.410-651-6543

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

International Student Ethnic Festival 11 a.m.Student ServicesCenter Ballroom 410-651-6079

UMES Jazz Combo-Chamber Ensemble Recital 7 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Center 410-651-6571