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New technologies and employer expectations are pressuring traditional colleges to innovate instruction.

When Maj. Vickee Wolcott, PhD ’15, arrived at the Smith School to work toward a doctoral degree, she had to hit the ground running.

Project manager Chau Hegg, OMBA ’15, knew her Smith School online MBA program would be challenging.

Predicting presidential election outcomes has gotten tricky in the digital age because the rising generation of voters doesn’t answer their phones or buy newspapers. Instead, they communicate online.

A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients will be discharged from a hospital unit on a given day as doctors and nurses, according to new research coauthored by Sean Barnes, assistant professor of operations management. In some cases, the computer does even better.

Wall Street could learn something from baseball, investment guru John W. Rogers Jr. said during Smith’s Diversity Fireside Chat on Oct. 9, 2015. “Major private equity firms have basically never had a Jackie Robinson moment,” he said.

Word spread quickly about the Smith School’s online MBA program, launched in January 2014. After attracting 70 students during the inaugural year, enrollment more than doubled to 158 in 2015.

Smith School marketing professor Rebecca Ratner reached millions of news consumers with her study on the upsides of solo consumerism.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Experts from the University of Maryland’s Robert H.