Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors recently presented the paper, “Tree or Forest? Moral Legitimization Tactics of Family-Based Business Groups," at the 16th Family Enterprise Research Conference 2021. 

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author Mitchell Livy of California State University, Fullerton, recently published an article, "Price and Liquidity Dynamics for Single and Multi-Family Homes during Housing Market Shocks" in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. The paper explores the heterogeneous responses of different…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) has a co-authored paper, “Older Adults in Virtual Communities: Understanding the Antecedents of Knowledge Contribution and Knowledge Seeking through the Lens of Socioemotional Selectivity and Social Cognitive Theories,” accepted by the Journal of Knowledge…

Jesse Barnes (Public Policy & Leadership), Anjala Krishen (Marketing & International Business), and Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology) recently had their paper, "Untapped Knowledge about Water Reuse: the Roles of Direct and Indirect Educational Messaging," published in Water Resources Management. This study…

Robert M. Cornell (Accounting) has a forthcoming article with Eddward T. Herron (University of Central Oklahoma) in Journal of Business Research, titled “Creativity Amidst Standardization: Is Creativity Related to Auditors’ Recognition of and Responses to Fraud Risk Cues?” The research examines the association between aspects of creativity…

Makayla Palmer (Economics) and co-authors Mireille Jacobson, and Susan Enguidanos had their paper, “Advance Care Planning For Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, But Prevalence Remained Low,” featured in the Health Affairs’ April Issue: Access, ACA Spending, & More. The authors note that despite low advance care planning…

Katelin Gilbertson (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics) recently had her OpEd, "Nevada’s Broken Unemployment System Must be Fixed — Now," published in the Las Vegas Sun. Gilbertson discusses the need for Nevada to craft concrete solutions to address the failures of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training…

Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had a report published in the Brookings Institution blog, Up Front. The piece, Assessing the Social and Emotional Costs of Mass Shootings with Twitter Data, analyzes emoji and hashtag usage on Twitter after mass shootings and finds that society…

Jeff Waddoups (Economics) won the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 2021 Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award. The Eaton award is given annually to a member of LERA for achievements of distinction as both an academic and practitioner in the field of economics. Waddoups was selected because of his…

Richard Gardner (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently was selected as one of this year's "Best 40-under-40 Business School Professors” by Poets & Quants, a website that shares creative content and rankings about MBA programs.

John Starkey (Business), Savannah Baltera (Campus Life), Amy Carito (Business Affairs), Amber Sevart (Student Engagement and Diversity), and Liane Lee (Alumni) headed an awareness and fundraising event in April on behalf of the Administrative Faculty Committee that benefited the local nonprofit Project 150. Project 150 is an organization dedicated…

Richard A. Darnold (Business) this month was issued his third patent around a system that learns, measures, and monitors water flow in an irrigation system. Incorporating a smart phone or other device, the system will interrupt water flow when anomalies are detected and will notify users. The Smart Irrigation System for Monitoring and Controlling…