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September 3, 2015
Will Google Join These Logo Losers?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Google changes its logo every day with clever home page animations, but the latest iteration is more permanent.

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September 2, 2015
China Turmoil Spreads; Volatility the New Norm

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- After August marked the Dow’s worst month,&nbsp

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September 1, 2015
Smith Freshmen Attend Day of Service

More than 70 freshmen in the College Park Scholars’ Business, Society & the Economy program (BSE) began their college life by completing a day of community service. On Friday, August 28, one day after having moved onto campus, the BSE students fanned out to several sites across Montgomery County dedicated to helping the homeless.

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September 1, 2015
QUEST Welcomes 90 Students

Ninety students joined the Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) program this year, kicking off the semester with an orientation to their new program. 

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August 31, 2015
Freshmen Focus on Personal Brand at Smith Leadership Institute

The Smith School's nearly 500 incoming freshman started their college experience with a good breakfast, loud music, and a chorus of cheering on Saturday, August 29 at the Xfinity Center.

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August 28, 2015
UMD-FDA Workshop on Mobile Health and Social Media Analytics for Product Safety
UMD Smith Researchers to Join Experts to Address Harnessing mHealth, Social Media Data for Medical-Product Safety

The Food and Drug Administration is looking to get, and stay, on the same page with producers and users of medical wearables. The FDA mission to regulate medical devices to protect consumers is challenged by the mobile health field continuously innovating new products.

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August 27, 2015
Smith Welcomes 16 New PhD Students

Sixteen new PhD students are beginning their academic journey at the Smith School this fall. Hailing from all across the globe and from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds, these new PhDs will be researching alongside Smith's best and brightest minds.

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August 27, 2015
Seven Secrets About U.S. Oil Prices

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- U.S. oil prices have dropped to six-year lows, and the main reason is no secret.

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August 25, 2015
Smith Challenges new Part-Time MBAs to Improvise

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business welcomed its new part-time MBAs with a challenge to “do more with less” -- through improvisation.  

The test: team-improvise a catapult against the clock from a limited supply of office materials including binders, paperclips, rubber bands and No. 2 pencils.

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August 25, 2015
Will the Fed Raise Interest Rates? Kristen Fanarakis

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — 

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