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Campus News |

Accounting lecturer Tammy Perri brings regulatory realities from the world's largest poker tournament to her classroom.

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Campus News |

The top headlines featuring UNLV’s staff and students.

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Campus News |

The program, which is now accepting applications for the fall, prepares students for an industry experiencing record demand.

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People |

The second place winner of the 2024 Classified Employee of the Year award winner goes the extra mile to make UNLV a better place.

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People |

This two-time Classified Employee of the Year award winner keeps the dean's office at Lee Business School in shipshape.

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Business and Community |

Foundation’s generous $735,000 donation will offset tuition for first cohort of new UNLV bachelor’s degree in insurance and risk management, which will launch this fall.

Business In The News

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An economist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas expressed concern about Las Vegas gaming and tourism for the rest of the year and the start of 2026.

Las Vegas Business Press

Keep your powder dry. That’s the midyear ominous message or warning to Southern Nevada businesses from UNLV Economist Stephen Miller over concerns that show the school’s Center for Business and Economic Research Leading Index for Nevada has fallen 0.9 percent month over month and is down for the year.

ProPublica

On Monday, June 23, a crowd of about 2,000 people surrounded the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet had come for a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association. “Not for sale!” the crowd boomed. “Not one acre!” There were ranchers and writers in attendance, as well as employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory, all of whom use public land to hike, hunt and fish. Inside the hotel ballroom where the governors had gathered, Michelle Lujan Grisham, the New Mexico governor, apologized for the noise but not the message. “New Mexicans are really loud,” she said.

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Cybercrime is a threat for many Americans, including small businesses. More than 40% of small businesses were victims of a cyberattack in 2023, according to the SBA. A majority of them won’t survive because of the financial losses.

USA Today

May was the fifth consecutive month Las Vegas has seen a year-over-year decline in tourism traffic, with visitor volume down 6.5%, per the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

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UNLV added a new major called Insurance and Risk Management.

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Recent Business Accomplishments

Graduate students Garrett Prentice (Computer Science) and Anubhab Mahapatra (Computer Science and Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology) recently presented on the UNLV Cyber Clinic at the United Way of Southern Nevada’s Nonprofit Connection meeting. Nonprofit Connection is a monthly gathering that serves as a vital space for nonprofit…
Wonyong Oh (Management and Entrepreneurship) has published a paper in Business & Society titled, "Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk." This study conducts a meta-analysis of 197 empirical studies to examine how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate…
Marla B. Stafford (Marketing and International Business) has been named a winner of the inaugural AAA-EAA Collaborative Research Competition, jointly sponsored by the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) and the European Advertising Academy (EAA). Her co-authored submission, "Betting on Better: How Cause Marketing Strategy by Gambling Companies…
Wonyong Oh (Management and Entrepreneurship) has been honored by Ivey Publishing, as one of his business cases, "Netflix: International Expansion," was recognized as an Ivey Classic, ranking #5 among the 25 most-used Ivey cases of the past decade (2015–2025). The case explores the strategic challenges faced by Netflix and remains widely…
Scott Jackson (Accounting) recently published a case study, "A COVID-19-Related Fraud at Applied BioSciences Corp.: What Are the Lessons?" in Issues in Accounting Education, the premier educational journal in accounting. The case, co-authored with Paul Ordyna (University of Missouri - St Louis) and Srini Ragothaman (University of South…
Jingwen Yang (Marketing and International Business) recently published "Towards the Integration of Precision Medicine in Psychiatric Care Delivery: Evaluating the Impact of Clinical Guidelines on Drug-Related Adverse Events" in Journal of Operations Management.  The study investigates the impact of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics…