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  Doctoral Candidates Show Strong Presence at Research Showcase

  Doctoral candidates Karla Acosta, Nefike Gunden and Yi “Vanessa” Liu participated in the 2019 Graduate Research Showcase, held Feb. 11 at the University of Houston Student Center. Acosta and Liu displayed poster presentations, while Gunden advanced to the finals in the 3MT Competition.
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  Our Hilton University of Houston Debuts New Look

  Hilton University of Houston opened its doors after the holiday break with a fresh new look – premium plush carpeting with pops of Cougar Red in all ballrooms, meeting rooms and select public spaces. In the hotel’s guest room corridors, the carpet pattern is reminiscent of cowboy boot threading. Eric’s Restaurant also received a makeover to its wallcovering and flooring.
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  Study Aims to Decode the Brain on Wine

  How does the brain process the sensory experience of drinking wine? Dr. Chris Taylor, director of our Beverage Management Program, and co-researchers from the UH NSF Brain Center are collaborating to see how the mind works when analyzing, tasting and describing wine.
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  Fall Class of 2018 Celebrates Commencement

  Hilton College celebrated its Fall 2018 Commencement on Dec. 14 at Cullen Performance Hall, with 124 students receiving their BS degrees in Hotel and Restaurant Management, 12 earning their MS degrees in Hospitality Management, 31 receiving their MS degrees in Global Hospitality Business, four taking home their Executive Master in Hospitality Management, and one awarded with her Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration.
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  More Best Paper Awards at Annual Graduate Conference!

  On Jan. 3-6, more than 300 attendees converged at Hilton College for the 24th Annual Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism. Doctoral candidates Min Jung Shin and Jookyung Kwon won Best Paper awards, while event co-chairs, Drs. Yoon Koh and Juan M. Madera, hosted another a hugely successful event.
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  New Year, New Faces!

  In 2018, we bid adieu to some old friends in key staff positions, and this year we welcome the newest members of our team: Yasmin Ali, alumni/development coordinator; Caitlin Fuller (’18), recruitment manager; Shibu George, maintenance technician; Katie Highfield (‘15), banquet manager; and Marta Tesfamariam, conference sales & service manager.
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  More News, People and Happenings

  In case you missed an issue of our monthly Snap Shots e-newsletter, we have past stories archived here!

• 91%of our students have jobs upon graduation
• 54countries represent our student body, making us the most diverse hospitality program in the world
• 945undergraduate students
• 68MS and Executive Master's students
• 34MS in Global Hospitality Business students
• 14Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration students
• $1,000,000 in merit-based college and university scholarships awarded
• 8,252alumni work in hospitality leadership positions in more than 50 countries around the world

HOSPITALITY MEANS BUSINESS!

Our name says “Hotel and Restaurant,” but we are so much more! We are a specialized business degree program in hospitality, offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees in hotel and restaurant management, hospitality management, global hospitality business and hospitality administration, respectively, as well as a minor in beverage management and marketing. Our graduates realize incredible career opportunities around the globe in lodging, restaurants, catering and events, casino, spa and club management, food safety, conference services, hospitality technology, sports and entertainment venues, marketing and social media, tourism, revenue management, wine and spirits distribution – and these are just a few specialized areas of hospitality. A huge part of our industry is food & beverage, so our students spend quality time in chef coats learning basic cooking, food safety and knife skills. Our focus is always on management, not what’s on the menu! Still, many aspiring chefs come here to learn about the business and operational side of the restaurant industry either before or after they complete a culinary program. Here, we prepare the hospitality leaders of tomorrow. And with our specialized team of counselors in our Career Development office, we are ready and willing to help you navigate this global industry through internships and career fairs where we bring top hospitality employers to you.

Hospitality is the world’s No. 1 employer. We ARE hospitality. We will help you find your place in our industry!

 

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Faculty Accolades

Dr. Juan M. Madera has had two papers accepted for publication. The first, titled “Top Management Gender Diversity and Organizational Attraction: When and Why it Matters,” was accepted for publication in the Archives of Scientific Psychology, an APA journal. The second was accepted by the Harvard Business Review and is titled “How We Describe Male and Female Job Applicants Differently.”

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Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Trends has accepted a paper co-authored by Drs. John Bowen and Cristian Morosan titled “Beware hospitality industry: the robots are coming.” The purpose of their study was to provide an overview of how artificial intelligence and robotics can and will be used by the hospitality industry, and offers a glimpse of what the use of robotics will look like in 2030.

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Dr. Ki-Joon Back and his research colleagues in Korea, Malaysia and Switzerland have received acceptance notification from International Gambling Studies for their manuscript titled “A mixed method approach of developing a multidimensional scale for gambling fallacy in the Korean context.” The primary objective of their study was to develop a valid gambling fallacy scale for the South Korean population using qualitative and quantitative methods to thoroughly understand the underlying structure of erroneous beliefs toward gambling among recreational and problem gamblers.

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