QUEST News

October 4, 2024
QUEST Honors Program Sees 48% Increase in 2024-2025 Cohort Applications
The QUEST Honors Program at the University of Maryland attracts top students from business, engineering, and science disciplines, offering a selective, dynamic learning experience. With a 48% rise in applications this year, QUEST fosters teamwork, innovation, and leadership through experiential projects and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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January 17, 2024
QUEST Conference Sees Students Showcase Successful Consulting Projects
With its highest-ever turnout of 342 attendees for its biannual conference, students in the Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Program saw immense support for showcasing their impactful, real-world consulting projects.
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April 7, 2023
Smith Names Joseph Bailey as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Joseph Bailey has been named Associate Dean of

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November 22, 2022
Making It Everyone’s Business

In May, National Student Clearinghouse reported that 662,000 fewer students enrolled in undergraduate programs in spring 2022 than a year earlier, a decline of 4.7%. But first-time, first-year enrollment increased by 4.2% in the same period. Why the overall decline yet increase in first-year enrollment?

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November 11, 2022
A Three-Decade QUEST

For 30 years, when companies and municipalities have faced especially vexing and persistent predicaments, they’ve turned to an elite squad of problem solvers: the students of the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ QUEST Honors Program.

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January 28, 2022
QUEST Undergrads Impress During Capstone Conference
From agriculture and manufacturing to supply chain management, students from the Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Program are ready to help businesses achieve their operational goals. In December, nine student teams from Cohort 34 showcased their semester-long capstone projects during the bi-annual QUEST Capstone Conference at the University of Maryland.
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October 14, 2021
Smith, UMD Unveil 2 New Programs for Top Scholars
The University of Maryland and its Robert H. Smith School of Business are launching two new undergraduate programs that will give highest-achieving students a big-picture view of business and industry in the changing workplace. The Interdisciplinary Business Honors Living-Learning Program and the Smith Business Leadership Fellows Program are each designed to enrich the college experience for the…
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February 12, 2021
In Hospital Project, QUEST Students Prescribe Changes

A virtual trip to the doctor’s office was quite productive for these Maryland Smith students.

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April 13, 2020
QUEST Honors Program Celebrates Diverse Incoming Class

The University of Maryland’s Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Program will welcome one of its most diverse classes ever in the fall of 2020.

Since its founding in 1992, the undergraduate program has maintained a commitment to increasing student diversity, with the aim of enriching the learning experience of all members.

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March 27, 2020
Undergrads Help Build Businesses in Africa

Few class projects deliver the kind of global impact that comes from those in David Ashley’s course. Ashley, an executive in residence at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, teaches a course that links undergraduate students with entrepreneurs in Africa and helps them grow their businesses.

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