One of the world’s top schools for business research, Maryland Smith also is where students experience top-level teaching in a highly supportive community. Smith chronicles and celebrates this distinction at the end of each academic year by honoring its outstanding faculty and staff members with awards of excellence.
Faculty Recognition Awards
Junior Researcher Award:
Musa Subasi
Kunpeng Zhang
Outstanding Researcher Award:
Rellie Derfler-Rozin
PK Kannan
Long-Term Research Impact Award:
Albert “Pete” Kyle
External Research Funding Awards:
Evan Starr
Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence:
T. Leigh Anenson
Nicole Coomber
Rellie Derfler-Rozin
Paul Shapiro
Pablo Slutzky
Michel Wedel
Legg-Mason Teaching Innovation Award:
Jennifer Carson Marr
Distinguished Teaching Awards:
Aysun Alp Paukowits
T. Leigh Anenson
Joseph Bailey
Jessica Clark
Cristian Dezso
Michael Faulkender
Judy Frels
Mary Beth Furst
Jennifer Gershberg
Samuel Handwerger
Jewelyn Harrington
Robert Hoffman
Melissa Lucas
Jennifer Marr
Michael Padhi
Julie Pavlovsky
Debra Shapiro
Subra Tangirala
Roy Thomason
Tunay Tunca
Michel Wedel
Sarah Wolek
Bobby Zhou
Faculty Honor Roll
Celebrating our unique Robert H. Smith School community, the Faculty Honor Roll acknowledges faculty who were collaborative champions for the administrative work of the school in the past academic year.
Finance and Accounting
Tom Corsi
Martin Dresner,
Human Resources and Payroll
Zeinab Karake,
John Bono
Development and Alumni Relations
Michael Kimbrough
Tom Corsi
Dingman Center
Brent Goldfarb
Subra Tangirala
Center for Global Business
Jon Crocker
Center for Social Value Creation
David Kirsch
Marketing Communications
Hank Boyd
Smith Service and Support Center (Operations, Programs & Events, and Scheduling)
Jeff Miller
MBA Programs
Nicole Coomber
Sujin Kim
MS Programs
Jeff Milton
Emanuel Zur
Office of Digital Learning
Idil Yaveroglu
Office of Experiential Learning
Mary Harms
Executive MBA Program
Kislaya Prasad
OCS Undergraduate Career Services
Rajshree Agarwal
Christine Schaaf
OCS Employer Relations
Mary Harms
Michael Kimbrough
OCS Graduate Coaching
John Bono
Emanuel Zur
Smith IT
PK Kannan
Undergraduate/QUEST
Hassan Ibrahim
Undergraduate Core Curriculum
Erich Studer-Ellis
Rebecca Hann
Undergraduate/Smith Business Leadership Fellows
Rajshree Agarwal
Christine Schaaf
Staff Recognition Awards
Smith Rookie of the Year Award:
Feven Girmay
Michael L. Rogers
Smith Values Award:
Tyrone Hagans
Smith Innovations Award:
Kayla Joyce
Andrew “AJ” Jonathan Lintag Rivera
Staff Excellence Award:
Rowena Corpus
Tagrina "Taj" Rayham
Smith Ambassador Award:
Sydney Wade
Miloyka Wilson
Smith Student Champion Award:
Calvin "CJ" Oates
Smith Unsung Hero Award:
Michael Sparrow
Laura Renae Steeg
Smith Champion for Diversity & Inclusion Award:
Tsega Tadesse Belachew
Smith Collaboration Award:
JeShawna Stevens
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About the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and flex MBA, executive MBA, online MBA, business master’s, PhD and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community. The school offers its degree, custom and certification programs in learning locations in North America and Asia.