Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), along with his co-authors Junjie Zhou and Ruochen Liao, received the “2024 Best Paper Award (Senior Category — Honorable Mention)” from the Special Interest Group on IT in Healthcare (SIGHealth) of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for their paper titled “Aging…

Hamid Reza Nikkhah (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) published a research article in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), a leading journal in the field of Information Systems and listed in the Financial Times FT50. In this multi-method study, Nikkhah, along with a professor from the University of Arkansas,…

The UNLV Rebels R.I.S.E. Program was selected as a recipient of the 2024 John N. Gardner Institutional Excellence for Students in Transition Award by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. This award recognizes institutions that have designed and implemented outstanding collaborative initiatives to…

Scott Jackson (Accounting) and his co-authors received the Teaching Innovation Award from the Forensic Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association at this year’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award is based on a case study the authors developed to teach students about financial statement and Fraud Triangle analyses in a real…

Bianca Ionescu, Christian Rodriguez, Arturo Roman, and Ashley Hernandez (all Information Systems and UNLV Cyber Clinic), had the opportunity to meet with The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) while they were in town for multiple cybersecurity/hacker conferences taking place in Las Vegas. They joined additional UNLV Cyber…

Stephen M. Miller (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) and Yevgeniy Teryoshin (Economics) had a paper published by Economics Letters titled "Income Inequality and Monetary Policy Regimes.” This paper reconsiders the possible effects of monetary policy on income inequality to determine whether monetary policy can indirectly…

Scott Jackson, Truman Rowley, and Aaron Saiewitz (all Accounting) each recently presented research papers at the prestigious International Symposium on Audit Research, held in Boston, Massachusetts. Jackson presented a paper titled, "Psychological Distance and Auditor Assessment of the Severity of an Internal Control Deficiency"; Rowley presented…

Payal Sharma (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) published a paper in MIT Sloan Management Review titled, "How to Come Back Stronger From Organizational Trauma." This was written in the aftermath of the campus shooting. It can be downloaded from the university library's database.

Gabe Berrios (Computer Science), Kaitlin Chan (Computer Science), Carlos Dye (Computer Science; Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), Victor Fearn (Computer Science), Mitchelle Gonzalez (Computer Science), Leo Menchaca (Computer Science), and Amy Wong (Computer Science) were all appointed to the role of intern with UNLV’s Cyber Clinic.…

Scott C. Jackson (Accounting) and co-authors Blake Steenhoven (Queen's University) and Kristina Rennekamp (Cornell University) recently published their paper, "CEO gender and responses to shareholder activism," in Contemporary Accounting Research, a premier accounting research journal. The study investigates how a CEO’s cooperative or…

Daniel Chi (Finance) recently wrote a guest column for Las Vegas Weekly/Vegas Inc. He explained the phenomenon of inflation and how to protect your wealth from inflation.

Nicholas B. Irwin (Economics) has been appointed as the Research Director at UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate. In this role, Irwin will expand the Center’s research program in both the academic and policy arenas. He will also work with Shawn J. McCoy, Lied Center Director, to further enhance Lied’s strong reputation in the state and local…