Varun's UMD Smith MBA Experience

Author: Varun Saxena

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How I am helping in the development of a cancer drug

I came to the Smith school in pursuit of a career in healthcare, but I never expected to present scientific data to leading scientists and PhD students. That is what I just did as a President’s Entrepreneurial Fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, a sister school of the flagship...

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Smith celebrates the holidays with gingerbread homes

Happy holidays from Smith! Students, faculty and staff celebrated the end of the year with some good old-fashioned fun: making gingerbread homes.  It was a nice way to show off our creativity and take a break from studying for those final exams. I was truly impressed with everyone’s creations. It...

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Swag from Philadelphia’s National Black / Prospanica career fair

Some first-year MBA students from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business walked away from the  Sept. 28-29 National Black / Prospanica career fair in Philadelphia with internship offers from companies like Johnson & Johnson and ExxonMobil. Even better, all of us managed to get our hands...

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Kicking off the school year with a successful case presentation

I knew our team did something right when I saw the Pepsi executives deep in thought following the class of 2019’s full-time MBA case competition presentation, held Aug. 25. Later, Dean Alex Triantis came up and congratulated us on our presentation, another good sign. Finishing in second place in the...