UNLV Barrick Lecture Series Welcomes Brooke Shields on April 20
Actress, model, and best-selling author will present "From Icon to Author: Brooke Shields on Life in the Spotlight" at 7:30 p.m. on April 20 at UNLV; tickets are free.
Dr. Dan Bubb talks Malaysia Flight 370 | Midday Break Room with Tiffany Bacon
March 2026 is the 12 year anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight MH370, which disappeared from radar on March 8th, 2014. MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed. Dr. Dan Bubb joins the show to further discuss the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 in regard to what people know about the plane, theories on what happened to the plane, and why the main wreckage of the aircraft has not been found to this day.
Plane Passenger in Shock at Reason Pilot Has Windshield Completely Covered
Former airline pilot Dan Bubb, who is a historian and professor at UNLV, told Newsweek that what viewers are seeing reflects a balance pilots must sometimes strike between visibility and other in-flight risks.
Study: New Explanation for Unique ‘Negative Superhump’ Features of Deep-Space Binary Star Systems
UNLV-led team of astrophysicists resolves decades-old conundrum with new theory on mechanisms driving periodic brightness variations in cataclysmic variable star systems.
Won-Yong Oh (Management & Entrepreneurship), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Manitoba and Nanjing University, was awarded an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. The project, totaling $118,566, will be funded through March 2030. The research, titled "When…
Amy Mathis-Leonard (Undergraduate Education and High-Impact Practices) presented on a panel at the Dana Center Launch Years Initiative convening "Shared Goals, Shared Success: Advancing Math Pathways" at the University of Texas at Austin, discussing lessons learned during implementation of corequisite math instruction
Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published an article, “Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep,” in the journal MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. The article examines how early twentieth-century theories of race, beauty, and women’s health and reproduction influence the representation of women’s bodies and identities…
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