World Class Faculty & Research / September 1, 2016

Smith Welcomes New Faculty Members

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is happy to welcome six new full-time faculty members for the 2016-2017 academic year. New faculty joined the Smith School in August in following areas:

Decision, Operations and Information Technologies

Wei Chen, Visiting Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD)

Courtney Paulson, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (PhD)

Logistics, Business and Public Policy

Ryan Cooper, Assistant Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis (PhD)

Marketing

Vivian Qin, Lecturer, Duke University (PhD)

Tharindra Ranasinghe, Assistant Professor, University of Houston (PhD)

Lingling Zhang, Assistant Professor, Harvard University (PhD)

Also joining Smith’s teaching roster this fall are new adjunct lecturers: Brent Solomon and Kenneth Grimm in Accounting and Information Assurance; James Hamerstone and Ella Washington in Management and Organization; and Ani Matson and Sunil Singh in Marketing. Paul Donohue and Lawrence Silver will also be teaching special courses for the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Office of Career Services, respectively.

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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 business education and cutting-edge research. The school’s world-class faculty facilitate experiential learning opportunities rooted in the real world. Smith students learn to think like entrepreneurs, prepared to drive positive impact. The school offers undergraduate, online and on-campus business master's, full-time, part-time, online and executive MBA, plus PhD and DBA degree programs, and non-degree and executive education programs. Where Smith leads, the future follows.

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