For 22 years, freshmen in the living-learning College Park Scholars program have spent their first full day at the University of Maryland with a day of community service at off-campus sites. On Friday, August 25, 2017, 70 students in the Business, Society and the Economy (BSE) program (one of the 12 thematic two-year programs) went to A Wider Circle, a non-profit organization in Silver Spring, Md., that provides basic need items to individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Aug. 23, 2017) — Four undergraduate students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business produced research for a new Social Enterprise Ecosystems Report, released Aug. 16 in collaboration with Deloitte, Capital One and Halcyon Incubator in Washington, D.C.

A team of aspiring entrepreneurs won the 2017 SELF Business Pitch Competition with Spot, a tiny GPS tracker that users can attach to car keys, smartphones or other items they don’t want to lose. “Our technology allows you to track certain items through GPS on our app and website,” presenters told a panel of judges at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “What sets it apart is its size. Spot is the smallest GPS tracker to date, and in the form of essentially a sticker, you can put it on anything.”

Rachel Hacker, a rising high school sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind., never saw college in her future. But her perspective changed following a residency program July 16-21, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Designing, building and racing autonomous robotic submarines is not your usual summer activity for business majors, but two undergraduates did exactly that as they proudly represented the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business last week in San Diego, Calif. Teams from the U.S. and around the world (Russia, India, China, Japan, to name a few) competed in RoboNation's International RoboSub Competition, July 24-30, 2017.

During the week of July 16, 2017, 12 high school women joined faculty and staff for the Smith Summer Business Program, Women Investing in Learning Leadership (WILL) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Presented by the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets and the Undergraduate Studies Program, WILL provided students with both classroom and experiential learning opportunities to develop and hone their emerging leadership skills.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has named nine new appointees to its Board of Advisors for three-year terms, effective July 1, 2017. UMD and Smith School graduates are among the new advisors:

Fifty-six sophomores in the by-invitation-only Business, Society & the Economy (BSE) program at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

Big ideas, the ones capable of fundamentally changing the planet, could come from anywhere, says Crista Gibbons, vice president of client solutions, strategy and operations at National Geographic. Gibbons, who graduated from the part-time MBA program at University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2004, leads a new initiative at National Geographic, called “Chasing Genius.”

By: Sam Harris, Marketing and Information Systems, Class of 2018Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland It’s not easy to land that dream summer internship. In fact, it can be downright difficult to find a gig that is a perfect fit.