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  Hilton College Seniors Bring Home HOP Awards

  At tonight’s 13th Annual Hospitality on Parade gala, two Hilton College seniors will take the stage to receive the Outstanding Lodging Student Award – Travis Kilway and Tuan Truong. Recipients of this award are nominated and selected based on industry experience, academic achievements, character, integrity, contributions to the College, and participation in College organizations and activities.
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  ESD Students Present Plan to Improve Public Health

  On Oct. 19-21, three members of the Eta Sigma Delta International Hospitality Management Society (ESD) – Iuliana Popa, Parmveer Lidhar and Maya Hajjar – represented Hilton College at the Community Innovation Challenge, where they pitched a plan to help make fresh, quality meals and produce accessible to families in Houston’s Third Ward.
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  Student Receives Honorary Seat at CIO Summit

  As the only student to attend the 17th Annual CIO Summit in Seattle, junior Juan Jesus Trevino came back to Hilton College with a wealth of professional connections and valuable information about the newest technology trends in the hospitality industry. Trevino received this opportunity thanks to the John Cahill Honorary Seat, an award that stemmed from his membership in the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) Cougar Chapter.
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  Hilton College Alumni Board Introduces New Initiatives

  Three of our very own “came home” this fall as the newest members of the Conrad N. Hilton College Alumni Board: Danny Arocha (’95), adjunct professor, Culinary Arts at San Jacinto College; Wen Kosters-Qin (’11), president of Kosters-Qin Enterprise, Inc. and JuiceWell Cold-Pressed Juicery and Health Bar; and Karla Acosta ('16, MS ’17), graduate student representative and doctoral candidate.
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  Houston Enjoys A Taste of Hilton College

  For more than 250 guests, it was all about sips and samples during A Taste of Hilton College, held Oct. 16 at the Hilton University of Houston. This first ever student-run event featured food and beverage delights from more than 30 of Houston’s favorite establishments, many owned and operated by Hilton College alumni.
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  First TABC Retail Executives Summit Opens Doors

  On Sept. 5, Hilton College partnered with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) to host the first ever TABC Retail Executives Summit. The agenda included discussions about economic growth, industry issues and international trade. The group of some 35 leaders of the retail sector also learned about collaborative research opportunities provided by the College.
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  Foods 2 Class Serves Heaps of Hospitality

  When Chef Anthony Chevalier and students from his Foods 2 class run a tailgate, it’s bound to be a great time! This season, they have once again teamed up with the Hilton College Alumni Association to provide pre-game grub at Party on the Plaza, held next to TDECU Stadium before each home game.
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  Fall Career Fair Hits Record Numbers

  More than 420 job seekers connected with representatives from 74 hiring employers during Hilton College’s annual Fall Career Fair, held Oct. 18 at the Hilton University of Houston. This record number of attendees included 29 students from Hilton College-San Antonio.
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  Alumni Profile: Anna Schmid Inspires at Career Fair Luncheon

  For Anna Schmid (’95), it’s all about making connections, powering through life’s challenges and always staying true to one’s roots. Schmid is vice president of administration and event optimization at The Venetian and The Palazzo in Las Vegas. On Oct. 18, she returned to Houston and her alma mater as the keynote speaker for the Fall Career Fair Luncheon.
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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
• 8,026 alumni 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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