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July 14, 2020
Virtual Tax Filing Assistance: How Maryland Smith Students Serve Peers, Community

When COVID-19 prompted a mid-March campus “Terp” shutdown it also halted TerpTax, a 6-year-old, free on-campus tax-filing service. Maryland students – mostly Maryland Smith accounting majors and including both master’s students and undergrads – had been assisting student peers and low-income members of the surrounding community, as both walk-ins and by appointment, from 6-9 p.m.

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July 9, 2020
Lucy Bedewi '20, Talks about Her Global Learning Journey

As a first-generation American, Lucy Bedewi has had the desire to have international experiences since she was a little kid. This desire continued into Bedewi’s undergraduate career at Maryland Smith, where she studied abroad six times.

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July 8, 2020
From a Fantasy League, Helping Dreams Come True

How a long-connected group of alumni came together to start a scholarship for new Smith students

It all started with Fantasy Football – 16 members in the league, all of them alumni of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and all of them former members of the Delta Sigma Pi co-ed business fraternity.

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July 7, 2020
Maryland Smith to Offer Free Business Education Program for Maryland Residents, Businesses

“Maryland Business: Rebooted” Starts Online July 13

To help Marylanders get back into the workforce and prepare for the new economic and business environment, The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has developed an online business program — free to all residents of the state of Maryland.

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July 6, 2020
When Everything Went Online, Smith Was Ready
Online MBAs laud the program’s collaboration tools and ‘rich interactions’

Back in March, when schools and universities closed their doors and shifted learning online, there were skeptics. How could students learn effectively from laptops? What about those essential interactions between students and instructors? What about student collaboration and teamwork?

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July 2, 2020
CHITA 2020 Goes Virtual

Maryland Smith’s CHIDS prepares to host its Conference on Health IT & Analytics (CHITA), online. Now in its 11th year, the conference is more relevant than ever.

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July 1, 2020
A Freshman Internship to Jumpstart a Finance Career

With a career goal to eventually land a job on Wall Street, Sean Liu is starting early. Liu, who just finished his freshman year studying finance at the University Maryland’s Robert H.

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July 1, 2020
Maryland Smith Welcomes UMD President Pines

Darryll J. Pines officially takes the helm of the state of Maryland’s flagship university on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, becoming the 34th president of the University of Maryland, College Park, and continuing a career of leadership and excellence.

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June 30, 2020
Maryland Named No. 1 College in U.S. for LGBTQ+ Students

The University of Maryland was named the No. 1 college in the nation for LGBTQ+ students, according to rankings released in June by Campus Pride and BestColleges.

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June 29, 2020
Building a Business on Building Credit

When their lack of credit prevented them from living off-campus, University of Maryland students David Potter and Abb Kapoor made it their mission to prevent other young students from sharing the same fate.

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