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 during this pandemic.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 development of innovations necessary to rapidly address the urgent problems facing the hospitality, entertainment and...Read More
VIA YOGONET The NGCB Chairwoman is part of the committee that reviews submissions to the Lee School Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a joint collaboration with the Lee Business School at UNLV, offering a million-dollar prize. "Some of the ideas that we've seen as part of that contest have been great, and they're from people from all different walks of life. There are actually international submissions that came in as...Read More