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Scholarship Week 2025 – Thursday Events

School of Humanities and Social Sciences – Communication – Power of Student Storytelling – Student Performances Session B

4:30 p.m.. | Plangere 235

Students in CO 381 “Power of Story” class will present a variety of personal and published short stories based on various themes relating to culture, identity, belonging, and social change. 

Leon Hess School of Business – 8th Annual Hess Excellence in Scholarship Series

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Bey 229

Showcase of best Scholarship by Leon Hess Business School students followed by Awards Presentation

Hess Excellence in Scholarship Series

Chair: Dr. Mikhail M. Sher, Management and Leadership

Members:

Dr. Janeth Merkle, Assistant Dean, Leon Hess Business School

Dr. Jonathan Daigle, Economics, Finance and Real Estate & MBA Program Director

Dr. Anna Sadovnikova, Marketing and International Business

PRESENTERS:

Blake Marushak, Concentration: Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship “ShackConsulting: Harnessing AI for Smarter Learning and Innovation

Sherly Gonzalez Lopez, Concentration: Management and Marketing “Green Marketing: Environmental Irresponsibility and its Effect on Sales”

Rachel L. Van Dalinda, Concentration: Finance “Municipal Bonds marked as green instrument indicators in the state of New Jersey”

Nicholas Brewer, Economics and Finance & Kyle Bleiweis, Finance and Real Estate “Evaluating Algorithmic Trading Strategies in Cryptocurrency: A Risk-Adjusted Comparison of Active vs. Passive Management

Ashley Zingillioglu, Minor in Management “Gamification in Special Education: “Talking with My Classmates,” An Interactive Social Story for Students with Autism”

The Leon Hess Business School (LHBS) at Monmouth University is accredited by AACSB International—The Association to Advance  Collegiate Schools of Business. AACSB Accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than six percent of the world’s business programs. Today,  there are 950 business schools in 59 countries and territories that maintain AACSB Accreditation.

Educating some 1100 business students at the graduate and undergraduate levels, the LHBS, the Monmouth University Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Kislak Real Estate Institute continue to innovate and lead in business education.

To learn more about the school and its activities, please visit us at: http://www.monmouth.edu/business.