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There’s always cause for celebration at the end of semesters, and Maryland Smith’s Social Innovation Fellows (SIF) made the most of theirs.

In their seven-week experiential learning projects, master’s of quantitative finance students are given a task that realistically would take many months to accomplish. That’s intentional, says Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi.

Jasmine Snead, Virginia Pierrie Selected by Poets & Quants as Among World’s Top 100 Graduating Full-Time MBAs

As Jason Malkofsky-Berger, Elana Sichel and Jonathan Taylor graduate this week from Robert H. Smith School of Business, they’ll celebrate another prestigious accomplishment as well – being honored with a 2021 Do Good Medallion.

They are among the 40 Class of 2021 graduates to receive the medallion from the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute.

Shelly Kapoor Collins started the Shatter Fund LLC in 2017, on a mission to increase female entrepreneurship by providing female founders with greater access to capital. The venture capital firm invests exclusively in high-potential disruptive technology companies led by female entrepreneurs.

Eight faculty members earned Maryland Smith teaching honors last week, as part of an annual tradition at the business school.

Maryland Smith’s Center for Global Business has been awarded the Advancing International Trade State Award by NASBITE International, the leading association for global business education, professional development and trade skills credentialing.

The Center for Global Business (CGB) successfully closed out a fully virtual 2020-21 academic year delivering programming that continued to support its mission of being the driving force behind global learning at Maryland Smith.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler is looking to the future – one oriented around the intersection of finance and technology, climate change and human capital.