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Cliff Rossi, professor of the practice and director of the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium, received a Smith Teaching/Learning Innovation Grant for 2024-25 to advance innovative, data-driven teaching practices that support the School’s strategic focus on smart learning environments.

Margrét Bjarnadóttir received the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her pioneering research in pay equity and her significant contributions to HR analytics and workplace equality initiatives.

Bruce Golden was designated a Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). 

Trevor Foulk received the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP) early career award in Science.

Rebecca Ratner has been elected President of the Association for Consumer Research. She will serve a 3-year term, serving as President-Elect in 2024, President in 2025, and Past President in 2026.

On January 25, 2024, Smith Professor Anil Gupta (along with his co-author Haiyan Wang) were the invited guests of the Strategy Imagination Forum, a fireside chat on “China and India: What Next” hosted by Strategic Management Society, the premier academic body of business strategy scholars worldwide. In October 2023, SMS honored Gupta with its annual C.K. Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice.

Mary Harms received the 2023 Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW) Educational Foundation 2023 O’Hara Leadership Award.

Albert "Pete" Kyle received the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for his research on market microstructure, based on his 1985 Econometrica paper, “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading.”

Anil K. Gupta received the 2023 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice from the Strategic Management Society. 

Russ Wermers won the top prize in the International Centre for Pension Management 2023 Research Awards.

Bruce L. Golden was nominated and selected as the recipient of the Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks: An International Journal in 2022. The prize was announced in December 2023.

Bobby Zhou is one of the 12 recipients of the 2023 Marketing Science Service Awards for their premier journal, Marketing Science.

Roland Rust was named one of the top 86 most impactful researchers in business and economics worldwide, the only University of Maryland professor on the list. The list was assembled using an objective analysis of citations and other variables, by Clarivate, 2023. He was also ranked 88th in the world in Best Scientists in Business and Management by Research.com (top active researcher in any field at the Smith School), based on h-index in the business discipline. Also ranked #52 in the US across all business fields. Awarded Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award, 2023.

Oliver Schlake, working with Stephanie Lansing in UMD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a multidisciplinary team, received a $5 million NSF grant to develop NourishNet, featuring Quantum Nose, a portable and user-friendly food quality sensor that can detect early-stage food spoilage, and FoodLoops, a real-time app to optimize surplus food distribution to food insecure people.

Articles

April 7, 2023
UMD Recognizes Smith’s Rajshree Agarwal for Research Excellence
Rajshree Agarwal was recognized for her “insights into how innovation and entrepreneurship impact the evolution of industries, firms, and individuals,” as part of the recent 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.
Read News Story : UMD Recognizes Smith’s Rajshree Agarwal for Research Excellence
February 22, 2023
Smith School Awards 14 Faculty Grants for Innovative Research
Fourteen faculty teams at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have been awarded three-year grants from the school for research projects that address the world’s grand challenges and reimagine learning in support of the University of Maryland’s vision and the Smith School’s strategic plan.
Read News Story : Smith School Awards 14 Faculty Grants for Innovative Research
February 17, 2023
Smith Faculty Leading, Collaborating in UMD Grand Challenges Projects
Robert H. Smith School of Business faculty members are engaged in three projects selected by the University of Maryland for Grand Challenges grants supporting research “to spur world-changing, interdisciplinary research and solutions."
Read News Story : Smith Faculty Leading, Collaborating in UMD Grand Challenges Projects
December 10, 2022
Hann Recognized as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

Since arriving at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2008, Rebecca Hann has remained steadfast in her mission to positively impact her students and the world with her research. Those efforts recently earned her the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher award.

Read News Story : Hann Recognized as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
October 28, 2022
Faculty Members Earn Distinction at 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Smith Chair of Management Science Michael Fu, was presented with the George E. Kimball Medal for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the operations research profession and that of management sciences.
Read News Story : Faculty Members Earn Distinction at 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting
March 15, 2022
Kirmani Named 2022 Fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology
Amna Kirmani, the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, was named a 2022 fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology. Her appointment was announced at the academic and practitioner group’s annual conference on March 4.
Read News Story : Kirmani Named 2022 Fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology
March 2, 2022
Smith Study Selected for Part of $3M in Seed Grants for Collaborative Research
A study co-led by Maryland Smith’s Ritu Agarwal to improve clinical decision making in the treatment of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome has been selected among projects for $3 million in new grants through the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) to address “critical areas of paramount importance to the state and the nation.”
Read News Story : Smith Study Selected for Part of $3M in Seed Grants for Collaborative Research
November 29, 2021
Fu Wins Saul Gass Expository Writing Award
Maryland Smith’s Michael Fu has won the 2021 INFORMS Saul Gass Expository Writing award, becoming only the second Maryland Smith professor to earn the distinction.
Read News Story : Fu Wins Saul Gass Expository Writing Award
November 19, 2021
Maryland Smith’s Anil Gupta, Haiyan Wang Named Again to Thinkers50 List
Noted again as “global strategists, experts on entrepreneurship and the transformational rise of emerging markets, foremost China and India,” Maryland Smith’s Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang, MBA ’95, were recently named in the 2021 Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers.
Read News Story : Maryland Smith’s Anil Gupta, Haiyan Wang Named Again to Thinkers50 List
October 5, 2021
Maryland Smith's Ritu Agarwal Elected 2021 INFORMS Fellow
Maryland Smith’s Ritu Agarwal was elected as a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The honor is in recognition of her lifetime contributions to the profession and is reserved for only the very top academics and professionals in the field.
Read News Story : Maryland Smith's Ritu Agarwal Elected 2021 INFORMS Fellow
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