Daniel Chi (Business) is a participant in a grant awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for approximately $350,000 over a five-year period. Collaborating with him is Guotai Chi and his team at China's Dalian University of Technology. NSFC has designated the endeavor as a "key project." It will develop…

Dr Erica Stockwell (Business), an MBA student and a graduate of Nevada's only accredited fellowship program in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, recently had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the upcoming 46th AAGL Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. This annual scientific meeting is the premier scientific meeting…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen Miller (both Economics) have been published in Business Economics, the journal of the National Association of Business Economics. The paper, "Did Okun’s Law Die after the Great Recession?," looks at an old rule of thumb in economics, Okun's Law, which ceased to exist post Great Recession. According to…

Danny Siciliano, Marion Canestrier, Kevin Curry, Annie Bellorin, Andrea Debrino, and Daniel Dinev (all Accounting) won the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) Case Competition and took home $5,000. This marked UNLV's first time participating in the competition, which focused on cost allocations, performance evaluation and…

Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…

Stephen Brown (Economics) and co-author, Hillard Huntington of Stanford University have had their paper "OPEC and World Oil Security" accepted for publication in Energy Policy, a top journal in the industry. The publication date has not been determined.

Stephanie Vega (Business), along with Claudia Andracki, '17 MBA, won the grand prize in the 2017 Dominic Anthony Marrocco Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition for their Aftaz Growing Systems . The competition, which offers $50,000 in cash and prizes, wrapped up June 9 after more than a month of competition that included executive summaries,…

Robert Randolph (Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology) received the best paper award at the 2017 Family Enterprise Research Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, for presenting the research study "Seeing Forests for the Trees: Knowledge Diversity and Causation Logics in Family Firms." The paper was co-authored with faculty at…

Janet Runge (Center for Entrepreneurship) coordinated a five‐way partnership between Lee Business School, Cox Communications, Bank of Nevada, Caesars Entertainment, and Manheim Nevada that has produced 12 new graduates of the Small Business Leadership Academy (SBLA). The SBLA certificate program aims to empower participants with the…

John Starkey and Erica Shelton (both Business) were instrumental in Starkey's spring BUS 103 class, Business Connections/First Year Seminar, raising $4,054.66 for the National Children's Cancer Society. Shelton, a freshmen business student, took charge and led the class of 21 students in its fundraising efforts. The students…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) was invited to present at the International Conference on Business Sciences at Cairo University in Egypt in late April. Fellow presenters included professors from the business schools at University of Michigan, University of Portsmouth, University of Warwick, and the University of California,…

Rachel Farner, Muhammed Thabet, Drew Brunson, Wayman Wittman, Artur Maryamov, Daniel Vargas, Michael Philichi, (all Business), Brian Garrido (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), and Albert Antero (Computer Science) were honored at the recent 2017 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition. MBA students…