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FACULTY NEWS
VP for Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, and Dean of the School of Business Dr. Mouwafac Sidaoui appeared on Sky News Arabia during the Academic Global Immersion trip in January. He spoke about how local students can study abroad and earn scholarships.
Vice President of Athletics and Enrollment Management Keith Spataro and Head Men’s Wrestling Coach Joey Martinez ’03 were featured in FloWrestling on the prowess of Menlo Athletics’ wrestling teams.
Associate Professor Manish Tewari (left) and Assistant Professor Faten Ben Bouheni (right) cowrote two papers. The paper entitled “Over-Optimism, Credit Expansion, and Banks’ Risk and Return” can be found in The Banking and Finance Review. The paper examines the relationship between periods of rapid credit expansion and predictors of the future substandard performance of banks.
Providing strong evidence of the fight-to-safety phenomenon from the real estate market, with REITs as the proxy to the bond market during elevated real estate market volatility, their paper “Common Risk Factors and Risk-Return Trade-off for REITs and Treasuries” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Asset Management.
Associate Professor Tewari, Assistant Professor Ben Bouheni, and Dean Sidaoui co-wrote a paper titled “An Econometric Understanding of Fintech and Operating Performance” for The Review of Accounting and Finance.
Adjunct Professor Don Uy-Barreta made a presentation on the U.S. debt limit to the Menlo Park Rotary Club in February.
Executive Director for Academic Success Dr. Lisa Villarreal presented her research on a panel entitled Incorporating Medical Humanities in Teaching and Research at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Her paper was entitled “Gothic Aesthetics of Race and Class in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine: A Case Study in the Anxious Medical Gaze.”
Former Adjunct Professor Bill Widmer was named Atherton’s town mayor. The Almanac published an article that reviewed his top priorities for his term.
