The Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Smith Internal Research Grants (SIRG). The SIRG program is designed to foster innovative, high-impact research across disciplines. This year, 20 faculty-led teams have been awarded funding to support innovative research projects across a wide range of topics, including AI-human collaboration, digital platforms, labor market dynamics, corporate communication, early entrepreneurship, and online learning.

Fourteen faculty teams at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have been awarded three-year grants from the school for research projects that address the world’s grand challenges and reimagine learning in support of the University of Maryland’s vision and the Smith School’s strategic plan.

Can you revel in happy moments now, to soak them in and store them up to help you through future sadness? New research from Maryland Smith’s Ali Faraji-Rad finds that many people actively try to bank their happiness so they can draw on it later to cope with a sad event.

In times of uncertainty – which, with COVID-19, we’re all familiar with these days – consumers often buck the brand choices they’d normally make and gravitate toward the opposite, finds new research.