As part of a 2023 Faculty Opportunity Award (FOA) program, Bill Bai (Hospitality), Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality), and Shashi Nambisan (Engineering) received $34,998 in funding for their project titled, “An Examination of Transportation for Service Employees from Socio-economically Disadvantaged Populations in Las Vegas.” FOA is intended to help identify core interdisciplinary research teams at UNLV and increase innovative, multiple investigator research and scholarly/creative projects that are funded by extramural agencies, private foundations, or industry. This year’s program was extremely competitive and only five awards were made.