Faculty Notes: January 2014

School of Accounting Brent Lao, assistant professor, presented an academic study on January 11, 2014 at the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section conference in Houston, Texas, sponsored by the American Accounting Association. Jonathan Milian, assistant professor, presented his research paper “Overreacting to a History of Underreaction?” at the annual meeting of the American Finance Association […]

Faculty Notes: December 2013

School of Accounting Manny Pravia (MST ’92), adjunct, presented a presented a Federal Tax Update to the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) Tax and Financial Planning Conference on November 21, 2013, and to the Miami-Dade and South Dade FICPA Chapters on December 7. Department of Management and International Business Jerry Haar, professor, associate […]

Real estate students tour the Miami River with a team of experts.

Aboard a “floating classroom,” 150 undergraduates, graduate students and alumni learned valuable real estate lessons as they toured the Miami River on September 27, 2013 with a team of real estate planners, developers, government officials and other experts. The boat tour was organized by Suzanne Hollander, an attorney and real estate broker who teaches in […]

Faculty Notes: May 2013

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems An article titled “The Future of Nursing—Leadership” by Neera Bhansali, visiting clinical assistant professor, appeared in the May issue of Hospital News and Healthcare Report. Joyce J. Elam, professor and James L. Knight Eminent Scholar Chair in Management Information Systems, was featured in an article titled “Women on […]

Faculty Notes: September 2012

School of Accounting Wendy Gelman, senior instructor, received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty Convocation on September 27, 2012. Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor, and Barbara Perez-Deppman, College of Nursing and Health Sciences adjunct, co-authored the article, “Healthcare managers need to be collaborative leaders […]

Guess who’s coming to class? Heavy-hitters visit international real estate students all semester long.

“I read about these people in the news but never expected to have the chance to meet—and talk–to them,” said Raymond Clamens (MBA ’11), now a student in the Master of Science in International Real Estate program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). Clamens is speaking of the guest lecturers […]