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People |

 Students share their hopes for the semester ahead.

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Campus News |

University’s online nursing master’s programs, bachelor’s in psychology, and master’s in engineering crack the top 50 in publication’s annual list of nation’s best online degree programs. 
 

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People |

After a life-altering diagnosis, this Lied Center for Real Estate assistant director reflects on resilience, reinvention, and leading with empathy.

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Business and Community |

These Rebels learned firsthand how AI, data, and technology are reshaping modern finance.

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Campus News |

A one-of-a-kind seminar brings UNLV students inside Las Vegas’ most iconic resort properties, giving them access to MGM executives and an inside look at an industry that shapes the region.

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Campus News |

Faculty and staff made sure students looked their best before crossing the Thomas & Mack stage during Commencement last week.

Business In The News

Realtor.com

Las Vegas could face a downturn in international tourism from Europe over rising tensions between the United States and European countries, experts say—just weeks after Sin City's housing market showed strong signs of a comeback.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The chances of another federal government shutdown rose after many Senate Democrats said they would oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

KSNV-TV: News 3

As some federal workers are still working to recover from the historic government shutdown near the end of 2025, another shutdown could be just days away. Economic experts say projections for Las Vegas tourism in 2026 are looking stronger than last year, but a second federal shutdown could quickly reverse that momentum and place renewed strain on thousands of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers in the valley.

Las Vegas Sun

Vice President JD Vance claims mass deportations are slashing housing costs in cities like Las Vegas with large undocumented populations, easing affordability for American families, but economists and real estate experts say high interest rates and a sluggish market are the real drivers.

CityNews

Whether it’s due to objections over the current political climate in the United States or a sagging Canadian dollar, Las Vegas has been feeling a blunt impact as visitors from Canada are choosing to travel elsewhere.

The Baltimore Banner

The Sphere — that luminous, ginormous orb of entertainment ostensibly suited only for Las Vegas — might soon send a smaller sibling rolling into Maryland.

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Recent Business Accomplishments

Daniel Chi (Finance) has been appointed by Chancellor Matt McNair to represent the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) on the Nevada Advisory Council for Financial Literacy. As the Council’s higher education representative, Chi will help ensure that postsecondary perspectives are integrated into statewide financial literacy…
Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) received the 2026 Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT) Best Paper Award for his paper, "Theoretical and Practical Guidance for Incorporating Auditor-Client Communication in Experimental Research." The paper, co-authored with Rick Hatfield (University of Alabama), was published in AJPT in 2022.…
Truman D. Rowley (Accounting) recently presented his research at the American Accounting Association Auditing Midyear Meeting in San Antonio, one of the leading conferences in the field of auditing. The paper, titled “Staffing Continuity and Audit Quality: How Anticipated Continuity Affects Auditor Cognition and Skeptical Action,” is coauthored…
Jueer Wang, Jungsun Kim, Andrew Hardin, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ashok Singh (all Hospitality) and Andrew Hardin (Business) published "Perceptions and acceptance of guestroom control technologies: a cross-cultural study," in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. The study evaluates whether four predictors from the Unified…
CyberCorps® SFS scholars Hareign Casaclang (Computer Science) and Bianca Ionescu (Computer Science and Information Systems) were selected to present their research on “Self-Hosted Workflow Automation For AI-Based Cybersecurity Operations” at the 2025 Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE™) conference that took place at…
Saunak Basu (Information Systems) presented a research paper titled "Explainability in Human-AI Hybrid Decision-Making on Crowdfunding Platforms" at the INFORMS 25 Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. This study investigates the role of explainability in artificial intelligence recommendations and how it can enhance human-AI collaboration in…