There’s a new gallery of 16 LED screens lining a prominent hallway on the first floor of Van Munching Hall, showing off some of the Smith School’s most illustrious alumni. The vertical screens rotate through photos and short bios of dozens of impressive graduates, donors and school champions. The entire display can also be quickly adapted to highlight specific groups — for example, individuals in specific industries, or graduates of a particular program.

Van Munching Hall now features advanced upgrades, including a virtual teaching studio and active learning classrooms. Paulo Prochno, clinical professor, highlights the studio’s immersive technology, enabling online courses to feel like in-person teaching for enhanced student learning experiences.

The Smith School is making way for new, more effective venues for student collaboration. Follow our progress as we work towards our goal of opening these new spaces in 2024.

Now that UMD’s School of Public Policy has moved out of Van Munching Hall for new digs across campus, the Smith School has the go-ahead from the university to take over the vacated wing of the building.

Food trucks will visit the Robert H. Smith School of Business this fall semester on the following Thursdays: September 10 September 24 October 15 October 29 November 12 The participating food trucks vary by week and will include: 

Food trucks will visit the Robert H. Smith School of Business on May 7 and May 14 to serve a variety of lunch options to hungry students, faculty and staff. The participating food trucks vary by week and will include: 

Join us for Food Truck Thursdays at Van Munching Hall this week, Nov. 13. Three food trucks will visit the Robert H. Smith School of Business to serve a variety of lunch options to hungry students, faculty and staff. The participating food trucks are:

Oct. 30 kicks off the inaugural Food Truck Thursdays event at Van Munching Hall. Three food trucks will visit the Robert H. Smith School of Business to serve a variety of lunch options to hungry students, faculty and staff. The participating food trucks are:

Smith School Dean Howard Frank and Christine Stewart, assistant dean for administration, took a hard-hat tour through the North Wing construction site on Friday, Aug. 31. The $21-million, 38,000-square-foot wing of Van Munching Hall is nearing completion, with the crew shooting for a finish date in early October.

In July 2007 fences went up outside the main entrance to Van Munching Hall as construction of the university's Southwest Campus Gateway began. Lee Comstock, director of operations at Smith, says, "This Gateway will serve as the main pedestrian entrance to the campus on the south side. As part of this construction, a clock tower will be constructed." Additional plantings are also planned and this effort should address the pooling of water that currently occurs in the Mowatt Lane Parking Garage, adds Comstock.