VIA TRAVEL WEEKLY Necessity may be the mother of invention, but few things help scale an invention faster than a sizable cash prize. With Nevada's tourism sector in free fall this past spring, the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and the Ted and Doris Lee Family Foundation looked to...Read More
VIA KTNV The results are in. UNLV announces the winners of its global contest to help bring business back to Las Vegas after taking a hard hit from the pandemic. 13 Action News anchor Tricia Kean has the top innovators, including a look at a local entry...Read More
VIA WSJ Financial adviser Ana Raviña used to travel overseas almost every week of the year, hopping from one hotel to the next. As part of her job in international development, she regularly flew to Latin America and Africa. She also traveled widely around Europe to meet with donors, investors and clients. For many traveling...Read More
VIA SMART MEETINGS If someone reports sick after a gathering, a new AI-based system can trace contacts across four days and thousands of people in just four seconds. AI This week, UNLV Lee Business School awarded Volan Technology the coveted Lee Prize Nevada Innovation Award for its advanced solution for enterprise-scale, precise and private contact...Read More
VIA LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL Five teams of entrepreneurs have been awarded $900,000 combined to help the hospitality, entertainment and travel industries recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The five finalists of the Lee School Prize..Read More
PRESS RELEASE Today during a virtual Demo Day, the Lee Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announced the winners of its prize competition aimed at addressing the urgent problems facing the hospitality, entertainment and travel industries resulting from COVID-19...Read More
VIA UNLV NEWS CENTER Plywood covered entryways that weren't even designed to have doors. Streets once choked by bumper-to-bumper traffic and sidewalks stuffed with tourists now were deserted. The unnatural calm on the Las Vegas Strip came after Gov. Steve Sisolak's mid-March order to close casinos in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus.Read More
PRESS RELEASE Lee Prize winners debut their ideas to help the hospitality, entertainment, and travel industries recover from COVID-19 pandemic to investors, manufacturers and customers.Read More
VIA NEWSRADIOWRVA Executive Director at the Troesch Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UNLV Leith Martin explains that the University is set to hold its competition for the Lee School Prize for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, which hopes to speed up development of innovations necessary to address problems the Hospitality, Entertainment, and Travel industries are facing...Read More
VIA FORBES Andre Carrier is the COO of Eureka Casinos, Nevada's first 100% employee owned casino. He is also a Prize Steering Committee Member for the Lee School Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a partnership between The UNLV Lee Business School and the Ted and Doris Lee Family Foundation aiming to speed entrepreneurs in the...Read More
