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William DeWitt has been named Professor of the Practice of Logistics, Transportation, and Supply Chain Management, an appointment given by the University of Maryland to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in the practice as well as leadership in specific fields.
With academic programs on four continents (North America, Asia, Africa, Europe), campuses at four locations in the U.S. (College Park, Rockville/Shady Grove and Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C), it's only fitting that Smith should be launching four new academic programs.
Research by Rachelle Sampson
The Smith School is pleased to welcome the following new faculty for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Accounting and Information Assurance James McKinney, PhD ’02, Smith School
The final winners of the Second Annual China Business Plan Competition were announced on September 13, 2006. The announcement of the three winning teams is the culmination of the year-long national competition, which began with nearly 150 entries. Howard Frank, dean of the Smith School and Mr.
College Park, Md. August 18, 2006 - The undergraduate program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked among the best in the nation with the school ranked as No. 18 in the United States according to the latest U.S. News & World Report college ranking report released on August 18, 2006.
College Park, MD August 2, 2006 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced professor Kathryn M. Kay Bartol and professor emeritus Edwin A. Locke, both management and organization department faculty members, have been honored by the Academy of Management for their scholarly and professional contributions to the field.
Our friends at ExecutiveBiz present The New New Internet: Web 2.0 for Business, an interactive conference on Web 2.0 applications that includes discussion from high-level experts about the future of IT, adaptive Web technologies and how they apply to business.
Several Robert H. Smith School of Business freshmen got to know their classmates even before the fall semester began Aug. 30. The approximately 250 first-year students played games, bonded over meals and helped each other complete a ropes course and climbing wall as part of their orientation to the Smith Undergraduate Fellows Program.
Stories concerning cybersecurity issues are now common in the news media. Articles addressing the theft of laptop computers with entire confidential databases have topped the list in recent months. The need to protect the nations infrastructure, a large part of which is controlled by computer networks, has also been the subject of many recent news stories and government reports.