If a picture is worth 1,000 words, the judges of Smith’s Photo Contest had 199,000 to read through – that’s approximately a 633-page book, in case you are curious. We received 199 submissions for our second iteration of the Smith Photo Contest at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and after a month of online voting and judges’ deliberation, we are proud to share the 18 winning photographs from the talented Smith community.

This month, accounting undergraduates at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business took 10 days to visit 15 accounting destinations in Washington, D.C., as part of Jim McKinney's "Tax Avoidance, Tax Policy, and Tax Research Techniques" course. Students met with individuals, groups, and organizations that create, influence, interact, enforce, and adjudicate U.S. tax policy. Read about their visits and see what it’s like to be an accounting student at UMD-Smith in 2015. 1. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Jan. 6, 2015

The Robert H. Smith School of Business hosted the 2010 annual American Marketing Association (AMA) collegiate mid-Atlantic conference on Feb. 26. The Smith School’s chapter of AMA, TerpAMA, arranged for six diverse marketing companies – including Arnold Worldwide, Constant Contact Email marketing Solutions, OP Digital, National Ad Council, Williams Whittle, and Octagon Sports and Entertainment – to lead sessions and interact with students from the Smith School and other regional business schools.

A team of students in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will serve as consultants for a call-to-action campaign as part of continuing efforts to restore New Jersey shore communities still affected by Superstorm Sandy. Smith School undergraduates, representing the new Smith Consulting Fellows program, will collaborate with Maryland-based Humanity TV Inc. to develop a social media strategy to promote the nonprofit group’s Jersey Shore Volunteer Challenge to 18-25-year-olds.

Thirteen teams of undergraduate QUEST honors students presented the results of their capstone projects to an audience of hundreds at the annual QUEST Conference on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, at the Riggs Alumni Center. Dressed in business professional attire, and with their presentations memorized, the students were highly polished. Each session was timed and carefully orchestrated to deliver maximum impact – it was clear they had been preparing for this moment for some time.

Smith School faculty and staff were clad in chef hats and “I Heart Smith Seniors” aprons for the Second Annual Smith Senior Pancake Night on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Van Munching Hall’s Executive Meeting Space was filled with seniors who were ready to dig in to the all-you-can-eat pancake menu, complete with an assortment of toppings. Smith seniors were enthusiastic to attend an event celebrating their successes as students. The delicious food and break from studying was an added bonus.

“You don’t need to leave the United States to develop a global mindset,” said sophomore supply chain management and international business major Stefanie Kilyk after attending Smith’s Global Mindset Colloquium Celebration on Dec. 5, 2014. Kilyk, like many other undergraduates who participated in the pilot semester of the global mindset course, found tremendous benefit in the colloquium developed in collaboration between the Smith Undergraduate Program and Ernst and Young.

The University of Maryland's Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams honors program, known as "QUEST,” is holding its Senior Conference on Thursday, December 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Riggs Alumni Center. Stop by to see student presentations and learn more about the QUEST program! As a preview, we asked current QUEST students what their favorite parts of the QUEST program are in an online survey. Here is what they say are the best aspects of the program:

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business “discovers, equips, connects and celebrates entrepreneurs” through events and opportunities such as Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which took place the week of Nov. 17, 2014.

Smith Students Earn Trip to Unilever’s Connecticut Campus Three students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have earned the opportunity to visit Unilever’s Trumbull, Connecticut research and development center.