The Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach earned $7.6 million in federal Educational Talent Search grants to help thousands of low-income and/or first-generation middle and high school students at 18 CCSD schools complete high school and move on to college. Program services include academic advising, mentoring, financial literacy and college planning, career exploration, tutoring, and related support for families.
UNLV’s mission to help students bring their brilliant ideas to life took a step forward Sept. 29 with the opening of the UNLV Incubator at Hughes Center. The unique space, and a network of faculty and industry support, will help aspiring student entrepreneurs bridge the crucial stage of the innovation process between concept and reality.
UNLV has again reached the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the nation’s most diverse universities, placing in a four-way tie for first. More than 70% of UNLV’s Fall 2021 undergraduates identify as part of a racial or ethnic minority.
Communication studies major Saha Salahi was awarded Nevada’s first John Lewis Youth Leadership Award. Salahi was recognized by Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske. Salahi is a Brookings Mountain West student researcher and has worked on several civic engagement programs.
The UNLV Support Team (UST) connects students in distress with campus resources that support their well-being, personal safety, and academic success. In the past twelve months, UST has helped over 600 students (a 70% increase from the previous year) experiencing significant personal challenges accessing resources including counseling, health services, classroom accommodations, and advocacy, representing a nearly twofold increase in the number of students referred over the previous year. Significant challenges we have helped students navigate include suicidal ideation, physical health concerns, interpersonal violence, homelessness, food/financial insecurity, and more. Together, UST creates pathways to wellness for students in need and stands ready to assist any member of the university community who is concerned about a UNLV student.
UNLV School of Nursing cracked the top 50 of U.S. News and World Report’s best undergraduate nursing programs of 2021, coming in at 43rd. UNLV Nursing currently ranks in the top 100 for best master’s and doctoral programs and is ranked 7th in the country for online master’s programs.
Nursing runs in the family for three UNLV Nursing students. In a News Center feature, these students and their UNLV alumni parents explain why they share a passion for helping others. This article also led to a FOX5 news story detailing one of the families and how COVID-19 inspired their students to stick to nursing.
The Kirk Kekorian School of Medicine at UNLV will create a Division of Rheumatology thanks to a generous donation from the Engelstad Foundation. The donation will be used to hire and train rheumatologists, helping combat a severe shortage of specialists in Southern Nevada. Rheumatologists typically treat arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions and systemic diseases that can cause pain, swelling, and stiffness in joints, muscles, and bones.
In July, the UNLV Food Pantry teamed with food pantries at Nevada State College and the College of Southern Nevada to host a donation drive aimed at eradicating food insecurity among students, faculty, and staff who were hit hard by illness, joblessness, and other harms stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this summer, a team of UNLV Accounting students won the 2021 Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Student Case Competition - which marks the fourth time in five years a UNLV team has won the competition.
“Urban Adventure,” an experiential, scenario-based class in UNLV’s Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, creatively incorporates each of the college’s diverse academic disciplines to give students a unique opportunity to learn about the impact crime can have on a community. Students are thrust into the middle of a simulated crime scene, and throughout the semester they traverse the case and a wide-range of complex related issues as social workers, crime scene investigators, public information officers, policymakers, and journalists.
Transforming lives through new treatments for Alzheimer's, dementia, and other brain disorders: this is the mission behind UNLV's Department of Brain Health. Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings, a research professor and leading expert on Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, oversees the world's only research observatory that connects programs across the world. He and his team are broadening efforts to share trial outcomes and get new treatments to patients in record time.