According to an official statement from Keith E. Whitfield, Ph.D., President of University of Nevada - Las Vegas, “We’ve now learned that two of the victims who passed away – Patricia Navarro-Velez and Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang – were members of our Lee Business School faculty. The third victim, also a UNLV faculty member, will be identified following notification of next of kin.”
According to UNLV on X, another faculty member remains hospitalized.
Dr. Navarro-Velez, 39, was an assistant professor of accounting. She joined UNLV nearly five years ago, and her research focused on cybersecurity disclosures and assurance, internal control weakness disclosure, and data analytics.
Dr. Chang, 64, was a professor of management information systems, spending more than 20 years of his academic career teaching at UNLV Lee Business School.
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