Mr. Smith Goes to Georgetown
On Januay 26 & 27, a handful of students from R. H. Smith attended the Georgetown Capital Technology Summit, held on the campus of Georgetown University. The two-day summit included keynote speakers each morning, interesting panel sessions and a small career fair on Saturday afternoon...

First Years' First Impressions of R.H. Smith
Well, we made it through the first semester! At some points, it wasn't apparent just how we'd make it through, but our many sleepless nights did pay off - and we're here to tell the story. In response to a variety of questions, a group of first-year students shared their opinions on the first-semester experience...

Clubs Update
Updates from the Black MBA Association, BIO|PhARMA, and Net Impact...

Moving Up in the Rankings
Step back in time: It's the "big day" and someone named Sabrina White is going to contact me. I wait at home, staring at the phone, asking everyone to stay off the line since I'm expecting this very important call. Right on time, Sabrina calls. She introduces herself and the interview starts, and it goes well. Then, all of a sudden she asks, "So why do you want to come to R. H. Smith?"...

Disease at Smith!! Arrrgghh!!
Authorities at the University of Maryland School of Medicine appeared stunned today by findings that students at the RH Smith School of Business are being afflicted with a rare and esoteric brain disease. The Department of Infectious Disease has given the condition the preliminary name of Student Spongiform Encephalopathy Syndrome, or SSES...

Cyberposium 2001: The New Rules for Playing Online
I'm sitting between Jeff Biedell '02 and Kevin Hung '02 in HBS's Burden Auditorium among nine hundred MBA students from top schools around the world. Thomas Newman's score for AMERICAN BEAUTY is playing out of the PA system. On both sides of the cavernous arena and high above steep rows of comfortable yellow chairs, hang chime-like sculptures of a hundred dangling copper leaves casting shadows on the walls. Tim Koogle (T. K. to his peers), Chairman, CEO and Director of Yahoo!, has just finished his speech...

Internship Edge Program Launches Summer Job Search
Would you like to dine with some of the top recruiters of R. H. Smith School MBAs? If you are a first-year MBA candidate, the answer is probably - YES! As part of a two-day training seminar held in Van Munching Hall on January 26th and 27th, Internship Edge program participants used this opportunity to extend their career search networks...

Smith in Africa
"The Harmattan" in Ghana is the West African version of winter. During this season, the nights are cool and still, dry winds blow down from the Sahara desert. Sand fills the air, leaving a thin red film of dust covering every surface...

Star Struck
It was one of those rare, Hollywood moments of glory - the ones you read about in People. Everyone is seemingly congenial, happy, full of life and loving it. Success is in the air, and smiles are as wide as a Hummer. Instead of kicking and screaming like they were only a few days ago about changing the ending to the film, tonight everyone is stroking each other's ego like it was all a bad dream. Such is the euphoria at a Hollywood premiere, and Bounce was no exception...