John Starkey (Business) was awarded the Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Advising Award - Advisor Primary Role by NACADA, an association of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators, and students working to enhance the educational development of students. The association has more than 12,000 members representing all 50…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Michael Cummings (formerly in department of Accounting) recently published a paper examining L3C and Benefit Corporation legislation from 2008 to the present in the Wyoming Law Review. These new legal forms are designed to better fit the needs of entrepreneurs seeking to…

The UNLV Debate Team (Communication Studies) of Matthew Gomez (Political Science) and Jeffrey Horn (Economics) won the Las Vegas Classic Debate Tournament, held at UNLV in October.  Gomez and Horn finished the preliminary debates with a perfect 7-0 record, defeating teams from Gonzaga, Arizona State University,…

Greg Moody (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently published an article in the prestigous information systems journal Management Information Systems Quarterly with his coauthors Mikko Siponen, and Seppo Pahnila. The forthcoming article is: "Toward a Unified Model of Information Security Policy Compliance."  He also published…

Andrew Hardin (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology).recently published a sole authored article in the prestigous methods journal Psychological Methods. The full reference is: "A call for theory to support the use of causal-formative indicators: A commentary on Bollen and Diamantopoulos (2017)". Psychological Methods, 22(3), 597-604.

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,…