Maryland Day celebrates its thirteenth anniversary April 30 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Now one of the top annual events in the state of Maryland, the University of Maryland welcomes the entire Washington, D.C. region to have fun, learn and explore over Maryland's 1,250 acre campus.

College Park, Md. – January 5, 2011 – The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has partnered with the Gettysburg Foundation to develop customized leadership programs that integrate lessons from the historic Civil War battle. The intensely experiential programs will push participants to think differently about individual and organizational challenges through engagement in action-oriented sessions, both on the renowned Pennsylvania battlefield and in the classroom.

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 27, 2010, 7:30 a.m. Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom     As one of the most well-documented and studied battles in American history, the Battle of Gettysburg offers a rich set of characters, personalities, and examples of leadership decision-making that resonate in many organizations even today.

College Park, Md. – October 25, 2010 – Theexecutive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 15 in the United States and No. 36 in world, according to the 2010 Financial Timesexecutive education rankings published today. The influential rankings place the Smith School's EMBA No. 1 in the world for corporate strategy and No. 9 globally for entrepreneurship and for faculty research, an area of strength for which the school is consistently recognized as a leader.

The Smith EMBA program is more than a degree program — we like to think of it as an 19-month-long executive development experience. That experience is dynamic and life-changing, opening your mind to the essence of strategy, broadening your circle of connections to include new peers and faculty, and developing your ability to lead in ways that are difficult to imagine…and difficult to explain through a Web page. In fact, we’d much rather you open a personal dialogue with us than open our Web page.

College Park, Md. -- Sept. 30, 2010 -- The Executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business ranks No. 22 in the world, according to a Wall Street Journal report released today. Smith’s program ranked No. 15 for how well it imparts management skills to students and No. 16 according to alumni rating.

College Park, Md. -- Sept. 30, 2010 -- The Executive MBA program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business ranks No. 22 in the world, according to a Wall Street Journal report released today. Smith’s program ranked No. 15 for how well it imparts management skills to students and No. 16 according to alumni rating.

Comcast Center was full of good cheer as the Smith School celebrated the commencement of 780 undergraduates, 360 MBA/MS students, 51 EMBA students, and 9 doctoral students on May 21. William Gossman, MBA ’91, CEO of hi5 and keynote speaker at commencement, urged students in his commencement address to “practice their leadership skills on themselves.” “Don’t assume legitimacy. Don’t search for legitimacy. Create it for yourself, today,” said Gossman. “Once you have created that vision and that legitimacy, you need the courage to make it so.”

College Park, Md. – February 26, 2010 — The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business ranked No. 7 for research productivity among U.S. and foreign business schools, according to a study released yesterday by the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management.

he 2009 Winter Commencement for the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, in the Comcast Center. This semester, 145 undergraduate students, 129 Master of Business Administration students, 1 Executive Master of Business Administration student, and 5 Doctoral students will be graduating from the Smith School. Bob L. Johnson, the chief service officer for Sprint, will be the commencement speaker. Johnson is a University of Maryland alumnus and the co-chair of the Smith School Advisory Board.