CHRIE FutureFund™ Celebrates Graduate Student Winners in Montreal

Your CHRIE FutureFund™ provided a $1,000 award to eight graduate students, enabling them to attend the 2024 ICHRIE Global Conference in Montreal. There were four Best Paper Winners from the 2024 Graduate Research Conference held at FIU in January, and four winners of the 2024 Dissertation Proposal Competition. One student, Juhwan Lim, from Kansas State University, won both awards.

CHRIE FutureFund™ congratulates the following students on winning Best Paper at Graduate Conference

Chang Ma of Purdue University: Unveiling the role of congruity in service robot design and deployment (with faculty Alei Fan & Seonjeong Lee)

Alberto Beiza of University of Houston: Communal and agentic? The impression management of gay men in the hospitality industry (with faculty Juan Madera)

Xinying Xu of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Becoming a digital nomad: Exploring the happiness of remote work tourists (with faculty Haiyan Song & Qijie Jiang)

Juhwan Lim of Kansas State University: Using machine-learning approach to predict big-five personality traits based on communication types (with faculty Jichul Jang)

CHRIE FutureFund™ congratulates the following students on winning the Dissertation Proposal Competition

Juhwan Lim of Kansas State University: Using machine-learning approach to predict big-five personality traits based on subconscious behaviors

Peihao Wang of Temple University: Cultivating a sustainable ecosystem for platform service businesses: A multi-stakeholder inquiry in the hospitality and tourism industry

Araceli Hernandez of University of Houston: The role of corporate digital responsibility in hotels: Driving enhanced organizational performance and perceived justice

Huihui Zhang of Virginia Tech University: Strategizing in response to environmental uncertainty in the hospitality industry: A data-analytical approach 

Special notice

Araceli Hernandez won a Best Paper Award in 2023, so she is the first to win each award in consecutive years.

Juhwan Lim is the first to win each award in the same year. A remarkable achievement by each student!

Your CHRIE FutureFund™ is pleased to provide $8,000 of support to these graduate students.

Future Fund depends on contributions to provide this graduate student support. Supporting graduate students is part of the mission of CHRIE FutureFund™, as these individuals are the future professoriate. CHRIE FutureFund™ looks forward to the 2025 Graduate Student Research Conference in Houston next January, and the 2025 Dissertation Proposal Competition held in spring.