Smith Profiles
Student Profile
Spreading the 'Smith Family Philosophy'
Parker Rist, Undergraduate ’19
During Parker Rist’s freshman year, a senior at the Robert H. Smith School of Business inspired him to go into finance. The older student was headed toward a finance career and spoke about it daily, and Rist began seeing himself pursuing a similar career path.
Student Profile
Volunteer Leader Provides Tax Help
Hayley Smith, MS Accounting ’18
Hayley Smith ’15, MS ’18 has not yet graduated from the Master of Science in Accounting program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. But already she has people coming to her for tax advice.
Student Profile
Caps Recruit Sports Management Fellow
Erica Sandidge, Undergraduate '19
Erica Sandidge '19 understood that a career in sports management would be competitive. After all, she had applied to nearly 50 internships during her freshman and sophomore years at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Alumni Profile
Quiet on the Tee: He’s Working
George Bradford, Undergraduate
Former Terrapin golfer George Bradford, a 1997 graduate of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, had a quick response when people told him to “get a job” after college. “I have a job,” he told the skeptics. “I’m a professional golfer.”
Faculty Profile
Accounting Scholar Pays It Forward
Rebecca Hann, Professor, Accounting
Life’s unexpected and often rewarding turns are manifested in Rebecca Hann’s path to becoming a professor. Growing up in Hong Kong, she wanted to be a teacher.
Student Profile
Johnson & Johnson Dream Job Awaits
Julian Colicchio, Undergraduate
Before classes even began at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in fall 2018, senior Julian Colicchio could breathe easy, knowing he already has a job lined up when he graduates.
Faculty Profile
Cotton Games Spur Landmark Study
Albert “Pete” Kyle, Professor, Finance
Wall Street traders play for higher stakes than Monopoly rivals collecting plastic houses and fake money.
Alumni Profile
Working With IBM's Watson
Kristie C. Bradford, A Front Row Seat at the Intersection of Business and Tech
What does a typical work day look like for Kristie Curameng Bradford, a 2005 full-time MBA graduate at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business? Well, there’s really no such thing — and that’s precisely why she loves her job.
Faculty Profile
Act of Defiance Leads to Academia
Rajshree Agarwal, Professor, Management
Teaching started as an act of defiance more than a career choice for Rajshree Agarwal, the Rudolph P. Lamone Chair and Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Alumni Profile
Fighting Food Waste and Hunger
Evan Lutz ’14
Entrepreneur Evan Lutz ’14 hates to see food go to waste. So in 2014 during his senior year at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, he co-founded Hungry Harvest from his dorm basement in College Park, Md.