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Baltimore, MD - October 29, 1997 - U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes today presented the 1997 Senate Productivity Award to the University of Maryland Medical System.

College Park, MD - October 6, 1997 - Achieving excellence in customer service. Making the virtual office work for you. Achieving quality in a team environment. Creating successful business-education partnerships. Growing your small business. Substituting commercial practices for military specifications in DOD and NASA work.

College Park, MD - September 4, 1997 - Dr. Philip T. Evers, assistant professor of logistics management at the University of Maryland Business School, has been elected president of the Council of Logistics Management's Baltimore Roundtable for 1997-98.

College Park, MD - August 28, 1997 - For the fourth consecutive year, SUCCESS magazine has ranked the University of Maryland Business School as one of the country's 25 best business schools for entrepreneurs. The Maryland Business School is the only school in the Baltimore-Washington region that made the top-25 list.

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College Park, MD - March 19, 1997 - Michael D. Dingman, president and CEO of Shipston Group, Ltd., has donated $2 million to the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship to enhance programs and support new initiatives.

College Park, MD - January 9, 1997 - James P. Bedingfield, chair of the Maryland Business School accounting faculty at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been appointed to the federal Cost Accounting Standards Board for a four-year term.

College Park, MD - December 3, 1996 - James N. Graham has been appointed director of the Maryland Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, effective January 6, 1997. The Maryland SBDC Network is administered by the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, a major unit of the Maryland Business School, University of Maryland at College Park.

College Park, MD - July 10, 1996 - Dr. Rudolph P. Lamone has received the 1996 Maryland Entrepreneurship of the Year Award in the category of "Supporter of Entrepreneurship." The Entrepreneur of the Year honors individuals whose ingenuity, hard work and perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures. Dr.

College Park, MD - July 10, 1996 - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected The University of Maryland at College Park, UMCP, as one of the universities to serve as the FAA Air Transportation Center of Excellence in Operations Research.