Faculty Accolades

Stowe Shoemaker
Associate Dean of Research and Donald Hubbs Professorship

Dr. Stowe Shoemaker, associate dean of research and a professor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, is the author of a weekly column in the electronic edition of The Wall Street Journal, the premier business daily in the United States and around the world. The column, which looks at trends in the hospitality industry, is published every Friday in the electronic edition of the Journal.

Dr. Shoemaker also writes a column for Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Management Quarterly, an academic and management journal specific to the industry. He has written three articles for Hospitality Journal Magazine.

He recently traveled to Bucharest, Romania, to present a discussion on customer loyalty executives at HBC Romania, the largest bottler of non-alcoholic beverages in Europe. The company, a division of Coca-Cola, operates in 28 countries. The lecture was part of an executive education program, and the executives received certificates from the Hilton College.

Stephen Barth
Professor

Dr. Stephen Barth, a Hilton College professor and founder of Hospitalitylawyer.com, will welcome the distinguished leaders from the hospitality industry who will gather February 9-11 for this year's Hospitality Law Conference, the premier gathering in the field.  Dr. Barth, who literally wrote the book on hospitality law, is the nation's foremost authority on the subject. The conference will take place at the George R. Brown Convention Center and cover topics such as franchising, liability, legislation and employment contracts.

Dr. Barth served as a panelist at the annual conference of the International Bar Association this October in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He participated in a discussion called "Travel Law Hot Spots Around the World."

This past summer, Dr. Barth was ranked among the top lawyers in Houston by H Texas magazine. In the June 2008 edition of the magazine, which publishes annual rankings of Houston professionals for its 240,000 readers, Dr. Barth was listed among the top 4 percent of lawyers in the greater Houston area. The rankings were based on peer voting and reader nominations.

Glenn Cordúa y Cruz
Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of W&SMI

Congratulations to Dr. Glenn Cordua, who recently passed the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 3 Advanced Certificate Exam with merit. Recipients of this prestigious certification must prove their in-depth knowledge of a wide range of wines and spirits, with an increased focus on tasting technique. Dr. Cordua’s next steps toward becoming one of roughly only 130 Masters of Wine in the world are to take a series of six diploma exams over the next year, followed by the Master of Wine exam, tasting and dissertation. Because Dr. Cordua has passed this level of certification, the Hilton College can now become a training and testing center for the introductory and intermediate certificates of the Wine & Sprits Education Trust.

The WSET was founded in 1969 to provide high quality education and training in wines and spirits. Headquartered in London, the organization conducts wine education courses, spirits courses and wine tastings in 39 countries. It has grown into the foremost international body in the field of wines and spirits education, with a suite of sought-after qualifications.

Dr. Cordua is the founder and director of the Wine & Spirits Management Institute at the Conrad N. Hilton College. As a member of the faculty, he teaches courses on Beverage Management, Standards of Alcoholic Beverages, and other alcoholic beverage and bar management related classes. He is an active researcher in the area of the responsible promotion of consumption of wine in restaurants.