College Park, Md. - February 1, 2008 - A group of Robert H. Smith School of Business undergraduate and MBA students had the honor of ringing the bell to open trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange this morning. The students manage the Smith Schools two investment funds the Mayer Fundand the Lemma Senbet Fund and are in New York for an educational trip to meet with financial professionals.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 30, 2015) Organizers of the University of Maryland’s Do Good Challenge have announced “Do Good Booster Fund” recipients for this year’s competition.

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.

This fall, twenty-one MBA students at the Robert H. Smith School of Business worked on semester-long consulting engagements with Amtrak, The National Aquarium and Remain Home Solutions. All of these organizations aren’t social ventures, but each contracted students to explore a social impact component of their organization.

This semester Center for Social Value Creation program Manager Pammi Bhullar connected the 17th cohort of student to high performing nonprofits for semester-long consulting projects through the ChangeTheWorld.org Nonprofit consulting program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. This year, fifty UMD students, both graduate and Undergraduate, worked with eleven nonprofits on strategic consulting projects.  

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.

Students in the five specialty master's programs at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business participated in Smith’s first MS Case Competition on Nov. 14, 2014. Cross-functional teams were formed of 4 to 5 graduate students studying in the following programs: Master of Science in Accounting, Master of Finance, Master of Science in Information Systems, Master of Science in Marketing Analytics, and Master of Science in Supply Chain.

“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.