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…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his coauthors, Igor Postuła (University of Warsaw) and Adam Tatarynowicz (Singapore Management University), recently presented the paper, “Who Is in Charge Here? The Opportunities and Constrains of State Control in Polish State-Owned Enterprises," at the International Research Society…

Zihan Ye (Finance) and her co-authors, Kimberly Cornaggia, John Hund, and Giang Nguyen, recently had their paper, "Opioid Crisis Effects On Municipal Finance," accepted to The Review of Financial Studies. The paper investigates the effects of opioid abuse on municipal finance. Research shows opioid abuse lowers credit ratings, increases…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and her coauthors Yogesh K. Dwivedi, N. Bindu, and K. Satheesh Kumar, recently had their paper, "A Broad Overview of Interactive Digital Marketing: A Bibliometric Network Analysis," published in the Journal of Business Research. This paper tracks research dynamics in interactive digital…

Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology, World Languages and Cultures, Honors College) is the recipient of the Vista Group Outstanding Senior Award. Carrying a $1,000 scholarship, this is a distinguished award given to a UNLV College of Liberal Arts senior displaying exceptional achievement, leadership, and service. A member of the Honors College,…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Ian McDonough (Economics) published a paper with Chris Sutter (Miami), "Venture Acceleration and Entrepreneurial Growth in Central America," about accelerators supporting entrepreneurs in the most recent issue of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Using 24 months of…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science) and Peter Grema (Economics) presented their research at the 2021 Western Regional Honors Council Virtual Conference, last week. Cheche's research on "The Culture of Policing in Las Vegas" presents national and local data on disparities related to the racial, social, and fiscal aspects within the Las…

Kirk Silvernail (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), with colleagues at University of Otago in New Zealand; California State University, Fullerton; and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, published an article “Perceived Fairness of Faculty Governance: A Study of 51 Countries” in Higher Education. This study investigated the perceived…

Paulette Tandy (Accounting) recently received a $10,000 grant from the Internal Audit Foundation for The Institute for Internal Auditors' (IIA) Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) program for the 2021-22 academic year. The grant will be used to hire a teaching assistant to help with the internal auditing classes and continuing to…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) published an article, "Rethinking Global Vaccine Inequality: Lessons from Game Theory." in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the official publication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This article discusses inequality in COVID-19 vaccine…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) were interviewed by KNPR's State of Nevada this week. They participated as panel experts in the episode "Vaccinated, Now What?" Labus provided advice on COVID prevention measures as the proportion of vaccinated Nevadans increases. Krishen…