Join the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on Friday, May 20, 2016, as we celebrate the accomplishments of more than 1,200 business graduates at two commencement ceremonies. The ceremonies will take place in the Xfinity Center in College Park, Md. Tickets are not required for the Smith ceremonies but please note that tickets are required for the campus-wide ceremony on May 18 at 7 p.m.

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Business or Pleasure? These Alumni Choose Both. Filmmaker Bradley “BJ” Levin ’03 has reached millions of viewers with his documentaries on HBO, MTV, National Geographic and other channels. Along the way he has collaborated with celebrities, met world leaders and won two Emmy Awards.

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about a case competition for high school students on April 8, 2016, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Philadelphia Flyers founder and Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider ’55 died April 11, 2016, following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 83. Gifts and other support from his foundation enabled the University of Maryland to launch the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2014. “From him we learned the importance of helping others and the value of supporting our community and beyond,” his children said in a prepared statement. “He was a man with deep convictions and never hesitated to promote causes in which he believed.”

Don’t doubt your potential, alumni women executives told the next generation of talent at the fifth annual Women Leading Women conference March 31, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. "I ended up in this role because someone saw something in me that I would not have seen in myself," said panelist Kristen Welch ’90, MBA ’96, senior vice president of global content operations for Discovery Communications.

Life at Van Munching Hall is about to get a whole lot more exciting. Dining Services has announced that Rudy’s Café will turn into a pub after 5 p.m., Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Read more about this and other exciting Smith news: 1. Kermit and Piggy to wed in ceremony at UMD’s Memorial Chapel

Undergraduate students have access to new programs and opportunities at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as a result of differential tuition. Funds generated from the policy, adopted in fall 2015, have allowed the school to ramp up its investments in four key areas related to the undergraduate experience and the Smith Journey.

[April 4, 2016: Event Highlights] The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business presents the Fifth Annual Women Leading Women event on March 31, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. in Van Munching Hall. Women Leading Women celebrates fearless female Terp trailblazers in business and is open to all Smith and University of Maryland women, including alumnae, faculty, staff and students, their guests and friends.

Retired KPMG partner Terry Iannaconi, MBA ’78, did not start her career looking for a fight. As a college graduate in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, she just wanted a job. Her grades earned her an interview with one of the big accounting firms at the time, but the hiring managers made a false assumption when they screened her résumé.