Students Engage in Research Emphasis Week

La Sierra University is home to incredible research opportunities for students and faculty, and our School of Business is no exception. The annual Research Emphasis Week at La Sierra provides an excellent opportunity to share the intense challenges and breakthroughs that come with engagement in research. Tonight, we were proud to have two groups of students share their work and insight.

Maria Andrea Mattheus speaks to an audience member
during her Colombia Project presentation

Representing two years of work by our SIFE team, developing a project for displaced families in Colombia, was Maria Andrea Mattheus. She spoke tonight on the intensive research needed to plan the implementation of the project, the assessment and feedback tools needed to continuously improve it, and the importance of strong partners and mentors such as renowned business author Linda Pinson.

(Left to Right) Lizzie Arouca, Vanisara Nicole Anthony
and Alexandre Schmidt discuss their marketing research work 

Last Fall, a team of four students, Lizzie Arouca, Alexandre Schmidt, Vanisara Nicole Anthony, and Courtney Yamanishi, were selected from a field of tough competition in our very first Dean's Challenge of the year. The team was awarded $2,500 for their development of an excellent marketing plan for Turner Development and their 100,000-square-foot center of stores, service establishments, a hotel and restaurants along Riverwalk Parkway. Tonight three members of the team were back to share their experiences and methodology in the in-depth research needed for such a task.

Dr. Gary Chartier

Research Emphasis Week is far from over at La Sierra University. For a complete schedule of events provided by the Office of Sponsored Research, click here.

And be sure to join us tomorrow evening, Wednesday June 1 at 7:00 P.M. in Cossentine Hall Room #106 for what is certain to be a thought-provoking Faculty Senate Distinguished Scholarship Award Lecture by our very own Dr. Gary Chartier: “Anarchy as a Research Program in Law.”

SIFE Presentation Team Tryouts | Jan 28

For the past twenty years, our La Sierra University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team has shown the world what students are truly capable of. Each year, while continuing to develop amazing projects in our local and global community, the team is given the opportunity to share its story. A presentation team is formed to take this story to thousands of professionals and other students through Regional, National, and World Cup levels of competition. Members of the presentation team are given the unique opportunity to engage with executives of the top companies in the world, and represent La Sierra University in a competition process including over 1500 universities.

Join us in the School of Business room #206 this Friday at 1:00. We will be holding auditions open to all La Sierra University students. Just as with the overall team, a student is not required to be a business major to join the SIFE team. To inform the SIFE Team of your intention to audition, or if you have any questions, please contact Amanda Oberg.