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This landmark performance gathers an extraordinary community of choreographic voices whose works celebrate where UNLV Dance has been, honor who it is today, and imagine where it will go next.

Laurie Hartig and Lisa K. Habighorst
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The College of Education Alumnae of the Year co-founded Spread the Word Nevada, expanding access to books and literacy resources for young readers across the state.

Daniel Joseph Chenin
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The internationally recognized architect and College of Fine Arts Alumnus of the Year has built a practice inspired by Southern Nevada while mentoring the next generation of designers.

Ali Caliendo
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Urban Affairs Alumna of the Year founded Foster Kinship to support relatives raising children in foster care. The nonprofit has since helped nearly 24,000 Nevada children.

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International Workplace Group is adding eight new coworking centers to Nevada, bringing its statewide total to more than three dozen locations.

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When Heidi Shelton was a UNLV student in 2003, she never imagined that an interest in X-ray images and a life-threatening cancer diagnosis would lead her to the helm of one of the university’s oldest academic programs.

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When Heidi Shelton was a UNLV student in 2003, she never imagined that an interest in X-ray images and a life-threatening cancer diagnosis would lead her to the helm of one of the university’s oldest academic programs.

Tony and Elaine Sanchez
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University Libraries Alumni of the Year honorees have spent their careers and volunteer work supporting education, libraries, and their Southern Nevada community.

Katie Houk sitting with the medical humanities collection placed around her.
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Katie Houk builds a medical humanities collection that gives students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine space to reflect, create, and better understand the people they will care for.

A digital collage of a businessman in front of abstract representations of different art mediums: shining lights, music, dance performance, painting, a film reel.
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The bachelor's in creative practice gives students the flexibility to build a career as creative as they are.

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Arts and Culture |

The season-opening program features a cinematic work inspired by the composer’s travels and a guest performance by Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon.

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UNLV sociologist examines the often-overlooked population in trailblazing book.

Recent Accomplishments

David R. Gruber and Donovan Conley (both Communication Studies) published a co-authored paper titled, "The architecture of anomaly: agential errancy in human-AI relations" in Critical Studies in Communication. The article examines errors arising amid human and AI interaction, theorizing them as “agential errors,” namely, as generative…
Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health) was awarded a Community Champion Certificate from the national College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference in recognition of her community-based work with the Boys Town Nevada LIFT program. The program seeks to intervene in the lives of students before they suffer mental and behavioral health…
Kaiyu Ho (Physical Therapy) Interim Chair and Associate Professor in the UNLV Department of Physical Therapy, co-authored "The Temporomandibular Joint" chapter in the 6th edition of Current Concepts of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, published by the APTA Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, with Sally Ho, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at…
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