Following the success of its inaugural spring 2022 cohort, the Maryland Smith Blockchain Accelerator is once again ready to help early-stage companies that are developing apps find ways to leverage blockchain technology.

For victims of financial fraud, the path to restitution is time-consuming and costly. But a new initiative from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is on the case to help bring them justice.

Tremendous opportunity for business students lies in an emerging and needed interdisciplinary approach to “making cyber and law work together.” This, according to privacy and cybersecurity attorney Kirk Nahra in delivering the Ira H. Shapiro Memorial Lecture as part of the 18th Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective.

We’re finishing out 2022 strong here at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Management professor Evan Starr’s research is having a big impact as the basis of a recently signed congressional bill to curb sexual harassment and limit nondisclosure agreements. Deloitte is partnering with us to offer scholarships to our brightest diverse accounting students. Our extraordinary research scholars have won prestigious honors at INFORMS and been awarded NSF grants. And we're celebrating that the University of Maryland is ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic region in the latest entrepreneurship education rankings from The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

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?

There are two things that U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos says have always been most important to him – statistics and helping others.

Two hundred twenty alumni, faculty, staff and company representatives gathered at Smith on Friday, October 7 for the Advisory Councils Fall Rekindling 2022.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses around the world faced unprecedented pressure to safely maintain their operations. Many struggled, but five Maryland-based exporting companies have shared how they rose to the challenge.

Dean Prabhudev C. Konana, along with faculty, administrators and students, took a bold step toward the school’s future by outlining goals to reimagine learning, curricula and programs, address society’s grand challenges, invest in people and communities, and build a solid foundation for operational health, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the school’s naming and the 50th anniversary of the school becoming a separate college.

The newest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings for undergraduate programs are out, with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business No. 13 among U.S. business schools at public institutions.