The Smith School welcomes hundreds of new faces this fall -- all ready to start an exciting new school year at the University of Maryland. MBA students and MS students were the first to arrive at Van Munching Hall in mid-August for orientations that included special speakers and team-building activities. For four years now, Ernst & Young has hosted the Freshmen Fellows Orientation at Smith, welcoming bright-eyed, eager students to the top-ranked business school. This year’s orientation took place on Aug.

An arm injury on the pitching mound prompted John-Patrick Paraskevas' exit from a St. Mary's College (Md.) baseball scholarship to Van Munching Hall's classrooms and a pathway to a supply chain management PhD from the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The University of Maryland and the Robert H. Smith School of Business are ranked No. 23 in the world for academic and research performance in business/economics in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by the Center for World Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China on August 15.

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 doctoral students, faculty and guests celebrated the achievements of the 2011-2012 academic year. It was a night to recognize students at the Robert H. Smith School of Business for academic milestones and extra achievements, as well as honoring doctoral students with awards. Upon welcoming everyone to the banquet, Dean Anandalingam spoke about the success of the PhD Program and recognized the hard work of the students by the increase in conference presentations as well as Financial Times placements.

On Sunday, May 20, 2012, thousands gathered in the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland for the commencement ceremony of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Over 1,000 students graduated with BS, MBA, executive MBA, MS, and PhD degrees. 2012 Smith School Commencement Keynote Speaker Michael Ward, Chairman and CEO of CSX

Three staff members at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business were honored at the school’s faculty and staff assembly on May 11 as the recipients of the 2012 Staff Excellence Awards. The Staff Excellence Awards were established in 2008 to recognize the critical role that non-academic staff members play in the Smith School's success. In creating the awards, the Smith School strives to single out and personally recognize staff members for their superior performance and significant contributions each year.

  2012–13 Krowe Award Winners The Smith School established the Krowe Teaching Excellence Awards to recognize those who have demonstrated superior teaching skills. The Smith School Teaching Enhancement Committee appoints an Ad Hoc Committee to recommend awardees based on nominations from students, faculty, and alumni. The awardees for 2012-2013 are as follows: Krowe Awards

hursday, March 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 18, 2012, 7:30 a.m. Your Cell Phone Makes You Selfish Though cell phones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Comcast Center was full of good cheer as the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business celebrated the commencement of 175 undergraduates, 187 MBA and MS students, 36 EMBA students, and 1 PhD student on Dec. 22, 2011.

First Row: Siddharth Sharma, Dr. Amna Kirmani, Tianshu Sun, Elad SherfSecond Row: Elijah Wee, Jorge Mejia, Ying GengThird Row: Olya Rachtchinine, Michael Parke, Weiming Zhu, Wenfeng Wang Fourth Row: Seoungwoo Lee, Rui ZhangFifth Row: Xiaoyuan Hu, Kyungran Lee, Yue DongSixth Row: Hadiye Celebi, Wen Chen, Anne Duquerroy, Isaac Elking