More than 200 high school juniors and seniors and their teachers from eight Prince George's County public schools gathered at the Smith School on April 15 for Finance Field Day. Finance Field Day activities helped the crowd of mostly African-American and Latino students learn how to position themselves for careers in the fields of accounting or finance.

April 18, 2011 - The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health Information Technology Research (COEHITR) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program. The University of Maryland is committed to investing in research and innovation that accelerates the transformation of health care.

A group of five students won the 2011 Wikler Case Competition on Friday, April 15, 2011, after weeks of preparing to compete against six other peer groups. The groups argued a case titled, “Valuation of AirThread Connections” to judges earlier in the day. The case, which came from Harvard Business Publishing, involved the acquisition of AirThread Connections, a large regional cellular provider, by American Cable Communications.

The year 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of IBM, and students, faculty and staff at the Robert H. Smith School of Business heard just what it took for the company to reach its centennial.

Thursday, April 14, 2011 @ 5:00 p.m. BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership Stan Litow, IBM: Beyond Responsibility: The Role of Corporate Citizenship in Modern Business 1524 Van Munching Hall, Frank Auditorium College Park, Md. On Thursday, April 14, 2011, Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host the BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership, with featured speaker Stanley S. Litow of IBM.

Under Armour’s Kevin Plank and BB&T Sponsor Sixth Annual Event at University of Maryland’s Entrepreneurship Invitational

Two Smith School graduating seniors, Maseeh Roshan and Micheline Tocco, will be teaching—and dancing, and playing lacrosse--in Spain next year as winners of prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETA) for 2011-12. The Fulbright Scholars program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Roshan, an accounting and finance double major, hopes to eventually focus on international contract law after his year in Spain.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has inspired and motivated young minds for nearly a century. Now, for the first time, the school is leveraging the impact it can have on lives and careers in an advertising campaign aimed at prospective students for its graduate programs.

The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is proud to announce that first-year Smith MBA student Lakshmi Sankar and her team placed first at the 2011 Sony Marketing Strategy Case Competition, held February 18–19, 2011.