Accomplishments: Lee Business School
John Starkey, Alondra Ortiz and Jamie Phillips (all Business) led 46 Lee Business School freshmen in a fundraising effort that raised more than $7,000 for the Nevada chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Their efforts were part of a service learning project that takes place in a first-year seminar course, Business 103. Not all the money…
Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts) and John Starkey (Business) presented at the 2016 NSHE Southern Diversity Summit. The presentation focused on how non-traditional students or adult learners on our campuses are ever increasing in numbers. Lifelong learning, career re-tooling, and re-entry into higher education calls for an integrated approach that is…
Heather Monteiro (Marketing and International Business) with co-authors from Georgia Southern University, Jacqueline Eastman, and Bradley University, Rajesh Iyer, recently published their article, "Perceptions of Millennials' Media Attitudes and Use: A Comparison of US and Indian Millennials" in Marketing Management Journal's fall 2016 issue.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) (Provost's Office) is the focus of the current issue of the journal Peer Review, published by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. A research article by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Provost's Office), Matthew Bernacki (Educational Psychology…
Joseph Gilbert (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) is the author of Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities. The second edition of the book recently has been published by Routledge. He is an emeritus associate professor.
Sutirtha Chatterjee and Gregory Moody (Management Information Systems) have been ranked (tied) No. 2 in the world for research published in the top six management information systems journals in 2015. In addition, the Lee Business School itself ranked No. 7 (tied).
James Cross and Nadia Pomirleanu (both Marketing & International Business) were honored this month by the Journal of Marketing Education (JME). They were awarded the Journal Article of the Year for 2015 for their piece, "Evaluating Educational Practices for Positively Affecting Student Perceptions of a Sales…
Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Pushkin Kachroo (Electrical and Computer Engineering), along with two past doctoral students, Orie Berezan, who earned a doctoral degree from the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration and is now a faculty member at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and…
Lee Business School professor Steve Brown (Economics) has been named editor of academic journal, Energy Policy. It is an international peer-reviewed journal addressing the policy implications of energy supply and use from their economic, social, planning and environmental apects. Papers may cover global, regional, national, or even local…
Tracy Johnson (College of Liberal Arts), Ed Ronca (College of Education), and John Starkey (School of Business) presented at the 2015 National Academic Advising Association National Conference. Titled, "Numbers Don't Lie: A Framework for Recognizing and Supporting Nontraditional Learners," their presentation focused …
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Collegiate DECA Members recently received several awards at the Utah Collegiate DECA's annual Fall Leadership Conference (FLC). Collegiate DECA is a career and technical student organization formerly known as the Distributive Education Clubs of America.
Among those receiving awards at the FLC were:
Daniel Dinev (Accounting/Global…
Paul Thistle (Finance) has been elected vice president of the American Risk and Insurance Association. He presented a paper, "The Principal-Agent Model When Agents Can Make Mistakes," at the association's conference in Seattle in August.