College Park, Md. March 29, 2007 World-leading academics shed new light on how psychological factors and emotional biases affect financial decision-making and stock market price as they share research findings at the seventh finance symposium Behavioral Finance, hosted by Finance Department of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, March 29-31.

For more than 20 years, the Smith School has been honoring and rewarding outstanding faculty members, instructors and PhD students for their teaching excellence. The Krowe Teaching Award committee, comprised of faculty Smith School faculty members Galit Shmueli, Charley Olson, Mary Harms, and Jeff Kudisch, has announced the following winners and finalists for the 2006-2007 Krowe Teaching Awards and the Legg Mason Award. Nominations were received from students, alumni, deans, department chairs, directors and administrators.

For more than 20 years, the Smith School has been honoring and rewarding outstanding faculty members, instructors and PhD students for their teaching excellence. The Krowe Teaching Award committee, comprised of faculty Smith School faculty members Galit Shmueli, Charley Olson, Mary Harms, and Jeff Kudisch, has announced the following winners and finalists for the 2006-2007 Krowe Teaching Awards and the Legg Mason Award. Nominations were received from students, alumni, deans, department chairs, directors and administrators.

Smith School Dean Howard Frank, Dingman Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Tien Wong and Smith School Fellow Wei-Wu He were among the business leaders providing insight into doing business in China and India at a Northern Virginia breakfast forum on February 28, 2007. Dean Frank moderated an expert panel that included Wong, Wei-Wu He and three others at Surviving & Thriving in the Flat World: China, India, and You! The event, presented by Potomac Executive Biz and co-sponsored by the Smith School, drew more than 150 area business people.

For Dr. Stephen Loeb, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Accounting and Business Ethics, ethics isn't just his job, it is a part of his psyche. Each decision he makes is carefully contemplated, with absolute respect and consideration to moral principles. Ethics is something that Loeb was thinking about long before it was in vogue to do so. That's why he has been cited over and over again and is internationally known in the area of accounting ethics.

Smith Also Earns No. 5 World Research Ranking College Park, Md. January 29, 2007 - The MBA program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 17 in the U.S. in the Financial Times MBA 2007 rankings, published today. The influential rankings also place Smith No. 5 in the world for research, which is based on the number of faculty research articles published in worlds top academic journals.

College Park, Md. January 24, 2007 The American Finance Association has honored two professors at the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business with the prestigious Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize. Gregory Willard and Mark Loewenstein won the award for their paper, The Limits of Investor Behavior, published in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Finance. The prize was presented at the associations annual conference, held January 5-7 in Chicago.

College Park, Md. January 24, 2007 - The American Finance Association has honored two professors at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business with the prestigious Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize. Gregory Willard and Mark Loewenstein won the award for their paper, The Limits of Investor Behavior, published in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Finance. The prize was presented at the associations annual conference, held January 5-7 in Chicago.

College Park, Md. January 8, 2007 Rebecca Hamilton, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has been identified by the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) as among a select group of scholars most likely to become the marketing fields next generation of leaders. In that role, Hamilton participated in MSI's fourth, biennial Young Scholars Program, January 4-7, 2007 in Park City, Utah.