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• At last

  - 2008-07-21

  At Last: Clarence B. Hawkins III wed Erika R. Coffey at the Beaches Negril Resort in Jamaica. The newlyweds are both graduates of the University of Maryland. The beaming bride focused on communications while in college and is an associate buyer for the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring. MD. Her...

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• Charting a new course: the University of Maryland Eastern Shore becomes the first HBCU to receive a PGA Professional Golf Management Program

  - 2008-05-29

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beginning in fall of 2008, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore UMES will become the 20th university in the nation--and the first historically Black university HBCU--certified by the PGA to offer a Professional Golf Management Program. "To have the distinction of 20 and 1 is not...

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• Widespread Unease About Economy and Globalization: Global Poll

  - 2008-02-06

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Steven Kull, Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, +1-202-232-7500, cell: +1-301-254-7500 Most See Unfairness in Distribution of Benefits and Burdens of Economic Growth COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 22 out of 34 countries around the...

  Tags: Globalization, Strategy, University of Maryland

• Jim Chung Named Director of MTECH VentureAccelerator

  - 2007-09-12

  To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: Eric Shurr of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, +1-301-405-3889, schurr@umd.edu Early-Stage Venture Capital Professional, Stanford Graduate to Lead Program to Help Faculty, Students Launch Technology CompaniesCOLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute today announces that Jim Chung has joined the institute as...

  Tags: director, FINANCE, Investment, Strategy, University of Maryland

• To Lohn Or Not To Lohn: A Puzzle In Subcontracting Arrangements

  BNET - 2007-08-01

  In the last two decades everybody has witnessed a dramatic fragmentation and globalization of the production process. While there is now a large and growing theoretical literature seeking to understand international outsourcing and the choices involved, a lot is still left to be explained. One feature that the vast majority...

  Tags: University Of Maryland, Subcontracting, Production, Outsourcing, Globalization, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Strategy, Management

• Lessons of the Last Bubble

  - 2007-07-01

  Notable Papers and ArticlesLessons of the Last Bubble; Tim Laseter, David Kirsch, and Brent Goldfarb; strategy + business; www.strategy-business.com/resiliencereport/ resilience/rr00044This paper by faculty from the University of Virginia Darden School Laseter and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business finds that the dot-com failure rate between 2000 and 2002...

  Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, University of Maryland, University of Virginia

• Fortress International Group Announces New Executive Appointments

  - 2007-03-19

  COLUMBIA, Md. -- Fortress International Group (OTCBB: FAAC), doing business as Total Site Solutions, a company providing comprehensive services for the planning, design and development of mission critical facilities and information infrastructure, today announced several executive appointments. Executives who have recently joined the company or who were appointed to new...

  Tags: CAREER, Company, director, FINANCE, Regional, SALES, Strategy, University of Maryland

• New University of Maryland dean uses bicentennial celebration to

  - 2006-11-30

  The new dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine is seizing the occasion of the school's bicentennial celebration to implement his new vision for its future. As the institution, the nation's oldest public medical school, yesterday publicly unveiled plans for its yearlong celebration of its 1807...

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• Erickson Retirement Communities to build on bwtech@UMBC

  - 2006-11-22

  The University of Maryland, Baltimore County announced that Catonsville-based Erickson Retirement Communities will construct a $20 million building at the university's on-campus research and technology park, bwtech@UMBC. Erickson will move its information technology department, its adult living national broadcast network, Retirement Living TV, and its private charitable foundation to the...

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• College Coders Converge on San Antonio for 30th Annual International "Battle of the Brains"

  - 2006-04-05

  The most talented students of computing, from all corners of the world, will travel to San Antonio for the 30th annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, April 9-13, 2006. The ICPC is the world's most prestigious university competition in computing sciences...

  Tags: ACM, China, IBM Corp., Russia, Strategy, University of Maryland