As a young boy growing up in Iran, Amirhossein Moadab experienced the devastation of earthquakes and observed suffering after resources failed to reach people in need. Today, as a doctoral candidate studying operations and management science, he aims to improve drone technology in response and recovery efforts following natural disasters.
» More ...
Shirin Shahsavand was thinking about getting an MBA when one of her professors pushed her to aim higher. “Dr. Chuck Munson kept talking to me about a PhD. I owe him a debt of gratitude,” says Shahsavand, who is studying operations management with plans of becoming a university professor.
» More ...
Reducing the pay gap between top male and female managers could be as straightforward as adding more women to a company’s board of directors, according to research by Gurdeep Singh Raina, a Carson College doctoral student.
» More ...
Yafang Li’s research on how to keep people using fitness trackers placed first in the Carson College’s Three-Minute Thesis event. The competition requires doctoral students to explain the significance of their research in three minutes or less.
» More ...
Demi Deng was managing restaurants and bars in New Zealand when she started following the Carson College of Business’s hospitality research. It eventually led Deng to WSU, where she will graduate with a doctorate in 2023.
» More ...
Doctoral Student Mycah Harrold looked at how identifying as feminist influenced women’s purchases of beauty-related products. The findings were surprising: Women who identified as feminists placed more value—and spent more—on items such as makeup, grooming products, and other accessories than their non-feminist peers.
» More ...
Oscar Chi (’21 HBM), a newly minted assistant professor in tourism, hospitality, and event management at the University of Florida, has his sights set on advancing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the hospitality industry.
» More ...
Doctoral student Kamal Ahmmad recently received an Alice O. Rice Graduate Fellowship to study how product labeling, advertising, and promotion influences consumer perceptions of lab-grown meat.
» More ...
