McNair/AANAPISI programs for low-income, first-generation students matches undergrads with faculty mentors that share their focus and goals.
UNLV undergraduate and NASA intern Amber Turner shares her remarkable research journey, which may someday lead to human civilizations on other planets.
Margie Toves is among the first graduates from a program to produce social workers specializing in children’s mental health.
UNLV hosts three-day college bound program for high-achieving Las Vegas students.
This fall’s freshman class is the biggest, smartest class to date. Here’s how new strategies kept Nevada’s brightest in state and opened the eyes of first-gen college students to the opportunity at their doorstep.
College once seemed so unobtainable to academic advisor John Starkey. He'll share his inspiring story of rising from poverty with incoming freshmen this week.
William on mentoring, the relationship between humans and flies, and how they both will make him a better doctor.
Tiffany on research and why there might be more to the relationship adage "in sickness and in health" than we thought.
Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.
Carmen on starving bacteria and the transition from art student to biologist.
Beatriz was a good student but college seemed impossible. Then UNLV and the Millennium Scholarship came along.