Nearly 250 Southern Nevadans participated in Operation Battle Born this summer, marching 370 miles over 11 days across Nevada with nearly 7,000 dog tags to honor fallen service members since 9/11. The event was organized by the UNLV Military and Veteran Services Center, student government, and community partners.
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UNLV baseball's Bryson Stott was selected with the 14th overall pick by the Philadelphia Phillies during the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Draft in June. Stott becomes just the fourth Rebel in program history to be chosen in the first round, joining Matt Williams (1986), Donovan Osborne (1990), and Erick Fedde (2014).
UNLV’s Cybersecurity Center was recognized in June by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education. The distinction recognizes robust university programs in cybersecurity research and education, including those programs’ efforts to address a severe workforce shortage in the field.
Sociologist Ranita Ray was awarded one of just 30 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships by the National Academy of Education. The program encourages outstanding researchers to pursue critical education research projects, and Ray will focus her work on gender inequality in schools.
For the third consecutive year, a team of UNLV accounting students won the Institute of Management Accountants' annual National Student Case Competition. The event challenges students to analyze a relevant case study, evaluate business operations, and help the client meet their goals.
The UNLV Alumni Association recently launched Rebels Forever, an innovative new membership model where all of UNLV’s 120,000-plus grads automatically become alumni association members at no cost.
Astrophysicist Bing Zhang and an international team of astronomers discovered a new way to spot when collisions occur in distant galaxies between two neutron stars – incredibly dense, city-sized celestial bodies that possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe. “We can’t throw neutron stars together in a lab to see what happens, so we have to wait until the universe does it for us,” said Zhang. The team’s findings were published in the April 11 issue of the journal Nature.
UNLV School of Music undergraduate and graduate students won three prestigious 2019 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards this spring. These awards are among the highest recognition in jazz education worldwide. Winners were selected from more than 1,000 entries. The UNLV Jazz Studies Program has earned 20 awards since 2010.
Geoscientist Terry Spell and former UNLV grad student Dawn Reynoso, along with an international team of researchers, discovered 22 million-year-old fossilized teeth of a monkey in Kenya, finding a new species that helps fill a 6-million-year gap in primate evolution. Isotopic ages on the rocks were obtained in the Nevada Isotope Geochronology Laboratory on the UNLV campus. “This adds to our understanding of the earliest evolutionary history of Old World monkeys, including changes in their diet,” Spell said. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
First, a UNLV film script “The Big Wish” was selected as one of five finalists out 800 submissions, for the Coca-Cola/Regal Cinema’s contest. As one of the five finalist schools, along with film powerhouses NYU, UCLA, the Savannah School of Art and Design, and The New School, UNLV was given $15,000 to shoot a 30-second branded spot to appear in Regal theaters. That was the first wish come true. Then UNLV’s social media campaign vied for the top spot in the social media campaign component of the competition. UNLV's The Big Wish came out on top! Another wish come true, as the expertise of UNLV film students has been recognized in such a prestigious national competition.
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UNLV's School of Nursing was ranked No. 1 in Nevada, and was named one of the best nursing schools in the nation with a grade of 96.54 percent by NCareers.org.
A team of nurse educators, nurse practitioners, RNs, and LPNs evaluated 1,892 RN programs on a number of factors important to nursing students including first-time NCLEX passing rates, accreditation, program offerings and more.
Black Fire Innovation, an innovative collaboration between UNLV and Caesars Entertainment, will test and showcase new gaming and hospitality concepts. The hub will simulate real conditions in an integrated resort environment. It will include mock hotel rooms, a casino floor, sports book, and an esports arena to test new concepts in a realistic space. Black Fire Innovation, located in the UNLV Harry Reid Research & Technology Park, will open by the end of 2019