Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had part one of a two-part report published in the Brookings Institution blog, Africa in Focus. The piece, "Russia’s Narratives about its Invasion of Ukraine are Lingering in Africa," analyzes Twitter data to examine the broader Russian narratives…

Jesse Barnes (Public Policy and Leadership), Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business), and Alexander Chan (both Business) recently published their article, "Passive and Active Peer Effects in the Spatial Diffusion of Residential Solar Panels: A Case Study of the Las Vegas Valley," in the Journal of Cleaner Production. In this…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) was appointed as the first Mel Larson Endowed Chair in Marketing. The endowed chair in was created to honor in perpetuity the memory and exemplary career of marketing pioneer Mel Larson and allows the Lee Business School department of marketing to recruit, retain, and recognize faculty for…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors have been chosen as the winners of the Best Paper Award in Strategy Division at the 2022 Annual Conference: ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada). They presented a research paper, "What's Inside the Mind of a CEO? The Effects of Discretionary Slack…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author David Wolf of Kobe University, Japan, recently published an article, "Time is Money: Water Quality's Impact on Home Liquidity and Property Values" in Ecological Economics. The paper explores home liquidity — how quickly a home sells after listing — in the context of environmental valuation, an oft-…

The following spring 2022 BUS 103 students from the class taught by John Starkey (Business) raised funds on behalf of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) this past spring and raised more than $3,500. These students held eight events (fundraisers and awareness campaigns) on campus to raise funds over the span of two months. Events…

John Starkey (Business) recently was elected chair of the Administrative Faculty Committee (AFC) for 2022-23. Starkey has been a member of the AFC representing Lee Business School, Harrah Hospitality College and Boyd School of Law. The remainder of the 2022-23 Executive Committee will be elected at the June meeting. The AFC is a standing…

Eda Anlamlier (Marketing and International Business) had a paper, "Temporary or Permanent Social Media Post? The Impact of Product Type," accepted in Psychology & Marketing journal with her co-author Sevinc Ulu (New Jersey City University). The article demonstrates the product display duration on social media (temporary via stories vs.…

G Liu (Finance) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented an interdisciplinary poster entitled, “Effect of Fear of Missing Out in Cryptocurrencies and Meme Stocks in a University Population” at the 15th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Liu, a graduate student, secured a grant…

Vivek Sah and Shawn McCoy (both Economics), along with their co-author Luis Lopez from University of Illinois, Chicago have had their paper, "Steering Consumers to Lenders in Residential Real Estate Markets" accepted at Real Estate Economics, the top real estate journal with an impact factor of 3.41. The journal is recognized as "A-" in the Lee…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with his former doctoral advisee, Jingfang Zhang who is currently at the University of Kentucky, co-authored an article, "Off-Balance Sheet Activities and Scope Economies in U.S. Banking," that has been accepted at the Journal of Banking & Finance, an A-level journal on the Lee Business School journal list.…

Giorgio Canarella (Economics) is co-author of a paper, "Topology Identification in Distribution System via Machine Learning Algorithms," that appears in Plos One. This paper contributes to the literature on topology identification (TI) in distribution networks and, in particular, on change detection in switching devices’ status. The lack of…