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The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business’ iSmith program was recognized for the Outstanding New Program and Exceptional First-Year Experience awards at Suitable’s Pathways to Student Development conference in July.

COLLEGE PARK (8/6/20) — Philip Merrill College of Journalism students have published a groundbreaking report in the Anchorage Daily News illustrating the detrimental effects of global warming on military operations at three of Alaska’s four major U.S. military bases, all located in areas...

First-year MBA Jared Turetsky lets us in on what it's like to work as an MBA Intern at Pepsi.

Amid constraints, team members focused on what they could do—and the result was a productive season.

It’s not every Maryland Smith alum who can blow away the judges of America’s Got Talent, earning a spot in the live shows. That’s a very tough crowd. But for mentalist Max Major, ’05, leaving people speechless is just another day at the office. Major performs at more than 200 events a year f...

New undergraduate degree merges biology, data science, and computer programming

In a special summer edition of the Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series (DSS), the Center for Global Business and academic director, Kislaya Prasad hosted a conversation with Emmanuelle Ganne, senior analyst in the economic research and statistics division of the World Tra...

Funded teams feature UMD faculty from 15 academic departments and six centers and institutes

Max Major '05 can read your mind. It's a passion he parlayed into the only career he ever really considered. While at Maryland Smith, he honed his entrepreneurial skills to build a business as a renowned mentalist. Major, who describes his craft as combining "the showmanship of a magician mi...

The only type of institution of its kind in the world, the museum's mission is to serve as America’s resource for nuclear science and history.

Peter Kofinas and Jesse Matthews team up to mentor high school students in a program hosted by the UMD Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering.  

Plans include increasing diversity, drawing broader range of majors.

COLLEGE PARK (7/28/20) — Krissah Thompson, a 2002 master’s alum of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has been named The Washington Post’s first managing editor for diversity and inclusion....

Kimberly Lumpkins and Patricia Turner, representing the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, are featured among the world’s “Best and Brightest Executive MBA Graduates” in the class of 2020, by Poets & Quants, the digital news outlet dedicated to global coverage o...

The Center for Global Business presented the fifth installment in an ongoing series of webinars by the MAPIT Alliance, “Show Me the Money: Financing Exports in Uncertain Times.” Building on the previous webinars that focused on shipping, logistics, and market research, this edition was creat...

Founded in 1988, Academia Europaea is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and letters.

When businesses want to expand their presence around the world or solve a global challenge, Maryland Smith’s MBA or undergraduate students are there, with valuable insights. That’s what the Maryland Global Export Consulting Program is designed for. And it’s particularly relevant now, with CO...

Chellappa will be joining Johns Hopkins on August 1 as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, but will continue his research collaborations at UMD.