SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Getting admitted to the hospital means a 1-in-20 chance of contracting an infection, maybe even a potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, also referred to as multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Baseball prognosticators love statistics, but performance over the course of 162 games does not necessarily predict postseason success.

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.

By using advanced baseball statistics, it’s possible to predict the monetary value of baseball players' future contributions — and avoid awarding massive multiyear contracts to players whose best days are behind them, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School, at the University of Maryland.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — By using advanced baseball statistics, it's possible to predict the monetary value of baseball players' future contributions — and avoid awarding massive multiyear contracts to players whose best days are behind them, according to new research from the Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- 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 can, according to new research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, at the University of Maryland. In some cases, the computer does even better.

Symptoms resulting from a bioterrorism attack could be alarmingly similar to those of the flu. A computer model developed by Sean Barnes, assistant professor of operations management, aims to identify one from the other by their very different transmission dynamics.  Barnes built his original simulation model for his dissertation as a mathematics PhD student at the University of Maryland (2012) to help public health officials seeing the two scenarios play out and determine which they are dealing with. 

Research by Sean Barnes and Bruce Golden Social Network Modeling Can Control Hospital Acquired Infections

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament will officially get under way next week, which means it's time to fill in your bracket. Maryland Smith's Sean Barnes shows you how to play to win.

Maryland Smith faculty share their best travel hacks, from traveling early to the best ways to tolerate traffic, to make your holidays easier.