The Smith School's Erich Studer-Ellis, Tyser Teaching Fellow of Management Science and Statistics, received a TIAA-CREF Top Terp Award at the Terps' Boston College basketball game in December 2005. Studer-Ellis was nominated by one of his students for the award, which recognizes someone in education for their outstanding performance. The award included tickets to the game and an on-court presentation of the game ball signed by Coach Gary Williams.

The reactions of business and government to the terrorist attacks of 9.11 and recent corporate misbehavior serve as dual themes for the second edition of Business, Public Policy, and Society, just published by Thomson. In response to these twin events, Lawrence M. Lesser, the book's author and LBPP faculty member, describes a new wave of regulatory activity that began with the enactment of two historic but controversial measures the USA Patriot Act in 2001 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. Both laws have global as well as domestic impacts.

College Park, Md. September 28, 2005 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced that Lawrence A. Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance Director, has been invited to join the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)s Study Group on Risk Management Approaches to Protection. The study group supports the work being conducted by NIAC.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is seeking nominations for the schools 2006 Smith Leadership and Excellence Awards. The annual awards, which pay tribute to business leaders and organizations that have made a significant and positive impact in the mid-Atlantic region, will be presented in four categories: Business Excellence, Leaders for the Digital Economy, Leadership Excellence, and Public Excellence.

Managing change in an increasingly dynamic and turbulent global marketplace environment can differentiate organizations that are ultimately successful from those that are not. About 75 executives left the Smith School′s Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology′s Leading Change at All Levels of the Organization conference with innovative new ideas and visions for their organizations.

Management Pay raise satisfaction and pay level satisfaction influence voluntary turnover in very different ways. Marketing A new forecasting model allows companies to reconcile sales forecasting with sales performance more accurately than ever before. Human Resources Commitment-based human resource practices foster knowledge creation and exchange within companies. New Center Opens at Smith Faculty Kudos Conferences and Symposia

College Park, Md. - August 31, 2005 Lemma Senbet, holder of the William E. Mayer Chair in Finance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, was recently granted an honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa from the Addis Ababa University (AAU), the oldest higher educational institution in Ethiopia and Senbets alma mater. AAU granted the honorary degree during its July 2005 commencement exercises in recognition of Senbets outstanding contributions to the discipline and practice of finance.

New research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business suggests there might be a right and a wrong time to introduce a new technology to guarantee the best reception. A study of a program that provided Nextel BlackBerry 7510 wireless handheld devices to all of the schools full-time MBA students found notable differences between first- and second-year MBA students use and acceptance of their handheld devices, with the first-year students expressing significantly higher levels of acceptance and commitment.

In June, the University of Maryland/Smith School and co-sponsors (the World Bank Institute, the U.S. Agency For International Development, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Cisco, and Avaya) welcomed leaders from around the globe to a workshop focused on identifying the intellectual and conceptual underpinnings and skills profile for a new type of development executive, the E-Leader.

College Park, Md. May 2, 2005 - The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, today announced that Mark Walsh, managing partner at Ruxton Associates, LLC, a private equity and investment firm, has joined the school's faculty as a senior executive fellow. Walsh will work with the faculty in the school's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, a nationally-recognized, leading entrepreneurial center, to advise graduate business school students on the development of their businesses and to provide expertise to regional entrepreneurs.