Maryland Day celebrates its thirteenth anniversary April 30 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Now one of the top annual events in the state of Maryland, the University of Maryland welcomes the entire Washington, D.C. region to have fun, learn and explore over Maryland's 1,250 acre campus.

“Royal Wedding” fever has engulfed the media and captured the public both here in the U.S. and across Great Britain as Prince William is set to wed Kate Middleton in an April 29 ceremony. Why the obsession with an English prince marrying his sweetheart? With commemorative merchandise, big money in advertising dollars surrounding the event, and endless media coverage, some of it is just business – with a captive audience.

Frank Islam, a Washington, D.C., entrepreneur, spoke at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on April 27, 2011 about his book with co-authors George Muoz and Ed Crego, “Renewing the American Dream: A Citizens Guide for Restoring our Competitive Advantage.”

Students get some realistic advice about how to break into the sports business.

MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business won the Second Annual Darden MBA Cricket Tournament, hosted by the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia on April 23, 2011. Having won the first edition of the tournament last year, the expectations were much higher from the Smith cricket team. Unfortunately, no other school could participate because of their busy commitments and the tournament was reduced to best of the three matches’ series between Smith and Darden teams.

Two Smith School graduating seniors, Maseeh Roshan and Micheline Tocco, will be teaching—and dancing, and playing lacrosse--in Spain next year as winners of prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETA) for 2011-12. The Fulbright Scholars program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The Executive Education team at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Executive is excited to announce that Dr. Anil Gupta will be joining the miniMBA2.0 faculty to teach the June 2-3 course on Strategy. Dr. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and globalization.

More than 200 high school juniors and seniors and their teachers from eight Prince George's County public schools gathered at the Smith School on April 15 for Finance Field Day. Finance Field Day activities helped the crowd of mostly African-American and Latino students learn how to position themselves for careers in the fields of accounting or finance.

April 18, 2011 - The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health Information Technology Research (COEHITR) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program. The University of Maryland is committed to investing in research and innovation that accelerates the transformation of health care.

A group of five students won the 2011 Wikler Case Competition on Friday, April 15, 2011, after weeks of preparing to compete against six other peer groups. The groups argued a case titled, “Valuation of AirThread Connections” to judges earlier in the day. The case, which came from Harvard Business Publishing, involved the acquisition of AirThread Connections, a large regional cellular provider, by American Cable Communications.