Smith Students on 'Reforming Business Schools'
Associated Press – Broadcast – May 15, 2009 – Smith MBA students Alon Gotesman and Matt Minchew, leaders of Smith’s Net Impact chapter, talks about how the economic meltdown has given rise to socially conscious business students.

MotorWeek Features BioDiesel University
In March, MotorWeek had a segment featuring Biodiesel University and the Green Guild Biodiesel Co-op with clips filmed inside the Smith School's Van Munching Hall. The Green Guild is a University of Maryland student-created non-profit which was incubated at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Brodcast on PBS, March 19 at 8 p.m. in Maryland.

A Surprising Journey
Kendall Mau, a 1976 MBA graduate, is CFO and COO of Prisma Microfinance, a privately owned credit union that operates in Nicaragua and Honduras. The company provides small loans, sometimes as tiny as $50 or $100, to help with enterprise development, or simply as consumer loans to help people purchase a refrigerator or washing machine, or add another room to their house.

Student Project Grows Organization to Help Orphans
A group of University of Maryland undergraduate student in the QUEST program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business set out to make a difference in the lives of orphans in Ukraine. At the start of the Fall 2008 semester they set out to figure out a way to help the orphans benefit from the opportunities of higher education. By the end of the semester they had built an organization, come up with a unique way to use photography to connect donors with orphans, built a Web site, and started collecting money.

Bringing Light to One African Community
Smith students join Clark School of Engineering students to bring clean, safe light to one of the world’s poorest countries.

Turning Trash Into Treasure
You’ve heard of turning trash into treasure. Well, some enterprising undergraduates in the Smith School’s QUEST program are turning food waste into…dirt. Along the way, they also turned it into a top grade. And with a little luck, they might turn it into a prosperous business as well.