Nontraditional Students Find Community in a Study Group
Although their journeys to graduation day are all different, these three social work students share how UNLV brought them together outside the classroom.
Award-Winning Faculty Member Drives Alzheimer's Research Forward
With women making up almost two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with the disease, Dr. Amanda Osse is focused on bringing women’s health to the forefront of Alzheimer’s studies.
Frontier Airlines moves to fill void left by Spirit. Will DTW benefit?
Experts say Frontier Airlines is likely to capture a significant share of Spirit Airlines’ business at Detroit Metro and across national routes, though they expect demand to be spread among the remaining low-cost carriers. Frontier offers service between Detroit and Spirit's top three markets, all of them popular among leisure travelers: Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Las Vegas.
Turbulent market: Las Vegas housing on decades-long roller coaster of extremes
Five years ago, Las Vegas’ housing market was red-hot. Homes sold rapidly, as buyers flooded properties with offers and routinely paid over the asking price. One agent said he held an open house that drew so many people that local security did crowd control. Soon enough, however, the market had slammed the brakes, as sales totals plunged and prices tumbled.
Ph.D. student Laurencia Bonsu (Environmental and Global Health) presented on collaborative research with Erika Marquez, Kwame Obeng, and Jefferson Totimeh, Blessing Gbadago, Louisa Messenger, and Josh Garn (all Public Health) titled "LEAD Exposure in Groundwater Drinking Sources Between a Mining and a Non-Mining Community in Kumasi,…
Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health) presented collaborative research with Laurencia Bonsu, Kwame Obeng, Totimeh Totimech, Gbadago Gbadago, Louisa Messenger, and Josh Garn (all Public Health) titled “Assessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater and Proximity to Illegal Artisanal Mining Sites in Ghana” at the International Conference on…
Presentation: Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Erika Marquez, Elizabeth Lawerence, Courtney Coughenour
Haboush-Deloye presented on collaborative research with Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Erika Marquez, Elizabeth Lawerence, Courtney Coughenour (all Public Health) titled, “Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate and Pyrethroid Pesticides in an Urban U.S. Population: Implications for Children’s Environmental Health,” at the International Conference on…
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