Dingman Center Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of the Rudy Awards
Entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, students and faculty joined the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on Thursday, May 2 to celebrate the fifth annual Rudy Awards. Named after former dean and Dingman Center founding director, Rudolph “Rudy” Lamone, the ceremony honors and recognizes the school’s vibrant community of entrepreneurs. Awards were given to student and alumni entrepreneurs, venture mentors, angel investors and faculty.
U.S. oil prices fell to a six-year low on Aug. 11, 2015, and one person not surprised would be the late Smith School economist Julian L. Simon. "There is no compelling reason to believe that world oil prices will rise in the coming decades," he wrote in 1984 when most experts predicted overpopulation and depletion of the earth's natural resources. Six of Simon's former colleagues and children share their recollections of the man who took on the doomsayers and won with a high-profile bet that pundits still talk about today. 