Accomplishments: Lee Business School
Tashauna Stewart (Lee Business School Advising Center) recently presented on innovative approaches to advisor wellness and professional sustainability at the 2026 NACADA Region 8/9 Conference in San Diego, California. Her session, titled "Beyond the Desk: Fostering Advisor Wellness Through Micro-Externships," highlighted the Lee Business School’s…
Kevin McVay (College of Sciences Advising Center) and Charlene Gonzales (Career and Professional Development Office, Lee Business School), alongside colleagues Andrea Aduna from San Diego State University and Derek Furukawa from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, recently presented at the 2026 NACADA Region 8/9 Conference in San Diego, California…
UNLV’s Rebel Recon team recently took first place in the national CISA-recognized Social Engineering Competition (SEC). The team is made up of graduate students Shanzeh Aslam, (Computer Science; Information Systems), Hareign Casaclang, (Computer Science; CyberCorps SFS Scholar), Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science; Information Systems; CyberCorps…
Hamid Reza Nikkhah (Information Systems) has published a research article in Information & Management, a leading journal in the field of Information Systems. This interdisciplinary study examines the rapidly evolving domain of Cybercrime by integrating insights from both information systems and criminology fields. Drawing on a…
Team UNLV took first in the nation in the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE) Cyber Games Invitational. This win comes after the competition's regional event which saw 1,100 students from across the nation compete for the opportunity to test their skills at the Invitational.
Led by Layer Zero, the team was comprising…
Rajiv Kishore (Information Systems) was recently invited to visit five major universities in China for academic exchanges with faculty and students. The universities visited include: a) Fudan University, Shanghai; b) Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province; c) Renmin University of China, Beijing; d) Shantou University,…
Helena Otero, Juan Otero, Shaima Mahamud, Iqra Faisal, and Emtiaz Emon (all Business), MBA and MIS students on UNLV's Business School team, brought home two awards from the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition.
This five-month competition challenged the team to think strategically, make decisions under pressure, and apply…
CyberCorps SFS scholars Hareign Casaclang (Computer Science) and Bianca Ionescu (Computer Science; Information Systems) recently had their research paper, "Self-Hosted Workflow Automation for AI-Based Cybersecurity Operations," published in the Spring 2026 edition of the Journal of The Colloquium. The journal is published by the Colloquium…
Nadia Pomirleanu, Ph.D., (Marketing and International Business) and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts) were awarded the iRDA Creative Media, Entertainment, and Cultural Industries grant to support interdisciplinary initiatives examining how experiential marketing strategies shape engagement within the creative industries. This interdisciplinary grant…
Scott Jackson (Accounting) and co-authors Paul E. Ordyna (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and Srinivasan C. Ragothaman (University of South Dakota) received the 2026 “Excellence in Accounting Ethics Education” Award from the Public Interest, Ethics and Sustainability Section of the American Accounting Association.
The award recognizes their case…
UNLV’s Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Student Chapter recently received the National 2026 Student Chapter of the Year award from the international WiCyS organization.
Students received the prestigious recognition while attending the 2026 WiCyS Conference that took place in Maryland in March.
The award recognizes the outstanding leadership and…
At the recent American Academy of Advertising Conference, Marla Royne Stafford (Marketing and International Business) and her Georgia colleague received the Temerlin/AAA grant for social responses d ethics to support their work on using humor and humorous threat in responsible gambling messages.