A plane crashes into one of the dormitory buildings on the UNLV campus on this night in December while a few hundred feet away thousands of fans are packed into the Thomas Mack Center for the National Finals Rodeo. This hypothetical situation is one of the simulations used in a master’s degree program at UNLV on emergency and crisis management, in which students are taught how to prepare for, respond to, mitigate and recover from natural and man-made disasters.

Jackie Trujillo appears to be seasoned for any crisis that comes her way.

Skyler Lange took a geology class at Nevada State College this spring, but she couldn’t do much classwork after the college shut down because of technical issues during Zoom lectures.

Skyler Lange took a geology class at Nevada State University (NSC) this spring, but was unable to do much of the class work after the university closed due to technical problems during Zoom classes.