Smith Day is an annual tradition celebrating the strong Smith community of alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Join the Smith community on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, for the Fifth Annual Smith Day that will include interactive activities, opportunities to show why you are #UMDSmithProud and opportunities to connect with fellow Smith Terps.

For the tenth year, Women Inspire will showcase Maryland Smith’s fearless alumnae leaders excelling in business. This annual event will celebrate female empowerment that inspires attendees and challenges them to realize and reach their full potential.

The 2021 Women Inspire Honorees will be the following Maryland Smith alumnae:

Committed to creating an innovative team? Want to learn why your (or your team’s) creative ideas seem to go nowhere? Ready to learn about the roadblocks to innovation?

Join Maryland Smith professor Vijaya Venkataramani, associate professor of management & organization, as she discusses her research about creativity in the workplace. This interactive discussion will include a short presentation followed by time for participants to ask questions.

How do you define being an ally, partner, accomplice or co-conspirator? Join the Smith community to learn more about what it means to show up as an ally.

Smith alumni panelists will share examples of effective and ineffective forms of allyship at work. Moderated by Jeanette Snider, Ph.D., associate director of undergraduate programs, this open discussion will provide steps on how to navigate moments where you can show up in the workplace for your team and colleagues.

Alumni Panel

In order to help our faculty and staff stay mentally well and respond to the mental health needs of our students, the Counseling Center will be offering workshops exclusively for UMD faculty and staff throughout the fall semester.

This workshop will help faculty and staff navigate strategies for engaging in self-care and coping with stress and other common difficulties we are experiencing as faculty and staff.

Get in the holiday spirit with BlueDyer Distilling Co.! Join Smith alumni and friends for a virtual mixology event. Stir up the drinks in your most festive attire along with our hosts or just watch! There will be a contest for the best Smith Terp drink with prizes and an opportunity to win a bottle of Blue Dyer spirits! There will be a non-alcoholic option for at least one of the drinks.

This event is brought to you by the Smith alumni chapter board and is part of the Unlocking Experiences event series.

Don your chef aprons, grab your whisks and let’s get baking! Join Smith MBA student Tina Elhindi for a virtual live macaron making class! In this fun class, you will learn the fine art to making macarons by Elhindi, a classically French-trained pastry chef who received her pastry diploma from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France. Come be transported to the patisseries of Paris.

This family-friendly event is open to the entire Smith and UMD community. The event is brought to you by the Smith alumni chapter board and is part of the Unlocking Experiences event series.

In order to help our faculty and staff stay mentally well and respond to the mental health needs of our students, the Counseling Center will be offering workshops exclusively for UMD faculty and staff throughout the fall semester.

This workshop will address common student mental health concerns, ways to communicate about mental health with students, available mental health resources (including the Counseling Center) and how to refer to them, and methods of coping for everyone involved.

In order to help our faculty and staff stay mentally well and respond to the mental health needs of our students, the Counseling Center will be offering workshops exclusively for UMD faculty and staff throughout the fall semester.

This workshop will help faculty and staff navigate strategies for engaging in self-care and coping with stress and other common difficulties we are experiencing as faculty and staff.

In lieu of our traditional annual Mortgage Risk Summit, please join us for the second of three digital events. Our second event focuses on the economic outlook for 2021 featuring:

• Michael Fratantoni, Chief Economist and SVP of Research and Industry Technology – Mortgage Bankers Association
• Doug Duncan, SVP, Chief Economist – Fannie Mae
• Sam Khater, VP, Chief Economist – Freddie Mac