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This fall is especially exciting for the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Thanks to its growing reputation as a leader in management education and research for the digital economy, the school has attracted a talented group of new faculty members and students.
As part of a national program that teaches children about business and entrepreneurship, elementary students in Prince Georges (Md.) County Schools benefited from the business savvy of Smith MBA volunteers. Almost 200 fifth graders were able to participate in the program this past spring.
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and Webmergers.com have launched the Business Plan Archive (BPA), a Web-based initiative designed to create a permanent record of the historic dot-com era. The BPA is part of a major Smith School research project on the dot-com boom and bust period of the late 1990s.
The Accenture MBA Case Competition, the third of four experiential learning modules (ELMs) for Smith School MBAs, took place May 3-8, 2002.
Smith School MBA student Bonnie Glick has been selected by the U.S. Department of State, to be part of a three-member team that will visit China this month to provide an objective assessment of the activities of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The Graduate Women In Business Club (GWIB) and the Master's Programs Office recently invited prospective female MBA students to explore the Smith MBA from a woman's perspective. GWIB's first annual open house showcased the dynamic women of Smith's past, present, and future, by joining alumnae, current students, and incoming students.
Five first-year MBA students - Emilia Koesmanto, Kerry Garland, Elisa Foltz, Josh Saragovi, and Kevin Papacek - represented the Smith School at the First Annual Simon-Johnson Case Competition at the University of Rochester, April 6-7, 2002.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business and the University of Maryland welcomed tens of thousands of people to Explore Our World on Saturday, April 27, at the Fourth Annual Maryland Day celebration.
Two incoming Smith School MBA students have received book fellowships through the memorial fund created to honor two Smith MBA students killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. The students receiving the fellowship money are Timothy Soltren, a first-year, part-time MBA student at the Shady Grove campus, and Michelle Gray, a first-year, part-time MBA student in Washington, DC.