Security is a hot topic, but its not one that is easy to get your arms around. Our increasingly global and interconnected society is forcing us to think of security, whether of information or infrastructure, in entirely new ways. Scholars and security experts came together to address a wide range of global security concerns at the Global Security and Enterprise Resilience conference sponsored by the Center for International Business and Research (CIBER) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business on April 12 and 13, 2007.

On October 6, 2006, the Smith School hosted its first Digital Economy Forum in partnership with the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) of Switzerland. The event was the first major conference sponsored by the school's new Smith Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

College Park, Md. May 16, 2006 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced that it has received a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) grant that awards the school a total of $1.42 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Education. The Smith School CIBER will be further supported by 100 percent matching funds from the school and will leverage the Smiths leading-edge global competencies to provide superior education, research, and assistance on issues central to building U.S.

The Smith School has been awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to fund a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). This high honor designates the Smith School as a national resource center in international business education and research. There are only 31 CIBERs in the nation.

"To be a top-class business school you must have a top-class international component," said Martin Gannon, professor of management and founding director of the Smith School's Center for Global Business, as he received the university's prestigious Landmark Award.

Brian Wallace is American, studying for an MBA at the Smith School of Business, and spending the fall semester at a business school in Germany. Norma Athamary is Peruvian, studying for an MBA at ESADE in Barcelona, now spending a semester abroad in the U.S. at Smith. Both students are profiting from the Semester Exchange Program managed by Smiths Center for Global Business in partnership with top business schools worldwide.

The campus, the professors, the technology - 40 MBA and undergraduate business students from Australia and Poland are impressed by it all. Coming from 110-degree temperatures in Australia, through heightened security (even shoe checks), 31 students from RMIT University (the former Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and nine students from the Polish-American Center at the University of Lodz arrived in the United States in January for a two-week academic study program at the Smith School.

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