Topic: People

Medical student Daniel Houston
People | July 26, 2023

Daniel Houston founded student-led group Medical Students for Disability and Chronic Illness at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

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People | July 10, 2023

UNLV's Tribal Education Initiative gives its new director an outlet for advocacy and Native students the opportunity of a lifetime.

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People | June 26, 2023

Business Affairs’ new chief compliance officer was drawn to UNLV by its diversity.

Shaunicy Sturm, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Class of 2026 student
People | June 21, 2023

With plans to become a surgeon, medical student and award-winning equestrian Shaunicy Sturm wants 'to change a patient’s life so that they wake up to a better future.'

image from the James Webb telescope
People | June 16, 2023

From de facto time machines to the story behind your TV static, UNLV cosmologist and computer scientist Paul La Plante shares four facts you probably didn’t know about the universe.

Keith (left) and Kevin Noorda (right), third-year medical students.
People | June 7, 2023

Third-year medical students are set to be the first pair of identical twins to graduate from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

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People | June 5, 2023

Living in Vegas was the furthest thing from this Midwesterner’s mind, but now her mission is to give UNLV donors the “white glove treatment.”