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    Lakshmi Reddi, an engineer with a ‘lifelong love affair’ with the arts, on how he came to understand the value of education.

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People |

While her fMRI journey has stretched nearly around the world, the chance to return to the university that helped shape her path was a no-brainer.

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Research |

UNLV boasts Nevada’s only MRI facility dedicated to university research. Here’s what our professors hope to discover with it.

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Campus News |

Meet some of the Mojave Desert critters that call our campus home.

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Campus News |

Communication studies classes and a new COM Lab feature help students from any major improve public speaking and listening skills.

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Capitalizing on “DExit” drama, Iowa and other states are working to raise their profiles as desirable litigation venues for companies questioning whether Delaware is still the default corporate domicile.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Fewer Nevada kindergartners are receiving life-saving early childhood vaccinations as vaccine exemption rates reach record highs, new federal data shows.

Live Science

While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.

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Campus News |

The COM Lab helps students prepare for presentations and develop confidence for in-person interactions.

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UNLV History |

Howard Hughes’ legacy lives on at UNLV, from artifacts and photographs in the Special Collections & Archives to the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.

Elissa Palmer, MD, FAAFP, and medical students at the UNLV Community Clinic, located at Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada’s Ruffin Family Clinic.
Business and Community |

The clinic provides care to the most underserved members of the Las Vegas community, all while offering critical learning experiences to Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV students.

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Research |

UNLV College of Engineering professors Chuck Tessler and John Businge each received highly coveted CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation to bolster their research programs. 

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Athletics |

Recently honored as one of the nation’s top player development leaders, the Rebels’ assistant athletics director shares his thoughts on life, leadership, and setting up student-athletes for off-field success.

Recent Accomplishments

Shengjie Zhai (PI), Emma E Regentova (co-PI), Ming Zhu (co-PI) (all Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Vanessa Vongkulluksn (co-PI) (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) from the have received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NF) award of $899,898 for developing "Pocket TA: A Multimodal AI Platform for…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an op-ed, "Volume Manipulation has become a Bigger Problem of Influence Operations than Fake News", in The Real Clear Defense. Volume manipulation means a country uses mass and social media to influence the issue salience of the targeted country and its population, which undermines its…
Timothy Cummings (Nursing) earned the Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist certification from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The certificate recognizes the experience, knowledge and expertise of individuals whose primary role is the implementation and delivery of simulation activities through the application of…
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