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Letter in support of DACA and Latix students September 6, 2017  Dear Students and Colleagues, AnnouncementsGeneral AudienceSchool of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

UMD Loop was one of only six teams selected to complete an open air run in the Hyperloop tube.

Victor Mullins, associate dean of the undergraduate program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently asked Alex Bergman ’20 to share her unique experience during this past summer. Alex’s “Summer Story of “WOW”” is part of her Smith journey and it may be an...

Victor Mullins, associate dean of the undergraduate program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently asked Lina Bauer '18 to share her unique experience during this past summer. Lina Bauer’s "Summer Story of “WOW”” is part of her Smith Journey and it may b...

2017-18 NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD. Announcements, New AppointmentsFaculty, Graduate, UndergraduateKeener, Kim, Namkoong, Fuentes, Wilder, Rain, Gironzetti, Frisof, Lie, Short, Bhogal, Kogelmann, Liberto, Davis, Ramos, StabileArt...

You can recognize that iconic, bright yellow Cheerios box in an instant. But a U.S. trademark court says that's not reason enough to grant the cereal maker an exclusive claim to the color. The case illustrates how tricky it is to trademark a color, though a number of firms have done it, and ...

Professor M. Cecilia Bustamante at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was an invited speaker at the first conference organized by the Association of Female Academics in Finance, a subsidiary of the American Finance Association.

Victor Mullins, Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently asked Nick Giannascoli ’19 to share his unique experience during this past summer. Nick’s “Summer Story of “WOW”” is part of his Smith Journey and it may b...

The University of Maryland will welcome Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards, as the first speaker of the Robert G. Hisaoka Speaker Series on Sept. 19, 2017, at the College Park campus.

Alumnus to join Innovation Hall of Fame roster in Nov. 27 ceremony.

Victor Mullins, Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently asked Oru Okogbule-Wonodi to share her unique experience during this past summer.

On this episode of Bootstrapped, we interviewed veterinarian Dr. Mark Olcott, co-founder and CEO of VitusVet. After losing a pet patient because he couldn’t access their medical records on a weekend, Mark started VitusVet to electronically connect pet parents and their care providers to impr...

Send a text and you could miss one: Fox Sports is rolling out, new 6-second television commercials for the start of the NFL season. The move to exceptionally short ad spots comes after the network saw a dip in viewership last season, to 16.5 million, from 17.9 million the season before. But ...

The Wall Street legend behind a new endowed chair in financial history will speak on Sept. 13, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Henry Kaufman, a former Salomon Brothers executive who founded his own economic and financial consulting firm in 1988, esta...

Writing Skills are rising on the list of job requirements an “I was a math major,” the interviewer said, “but the biggest differentiator in business now is good writing.” Weighing InSchool of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

NOT ON MY DOORSTEPSThu, 8/24/17 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies’ Director Fatemeh Keshavarz commemorates Lt. Richard Collins III through poetry. AnnouncementsFaculty, General AudiencekeshavarzCollege of Arts and Humanities, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages,...

The first day of class dawns upon the students of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. The freshman class of Smith race to get to their lectures and discussions, praying they are not late. Internship opportunities and full-time jobs are most likely the last things on their mind as they ti...

National and local news outlets turned to University of Maryland engineers for their disaster expertise.