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Honors College News

The Honors College is a selective college within the university that offers an enhanced undergraduate core experience for highly motivated students. We partner with the "discipline" colleges at UNLV where honors students pursue their academic majors.

Current Honors News

A UNLV student studies with the Strip in the distance.
Campus News |

Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

exterior photo of MGM and Park MGM hotels in Las Vegas
People |

Go-getter Charles Weber found academic and professional development opportunities through MGM scholarship program at UNLV.

Portrait of UNLV alumnus Zachary Billot
People |

With resilience and resolve, award adds to Billot's legacy as one of UNLV’s most academically decorated graduates.

A rear view of UNLV students, dressed in red caps and gowns, filtering into the Thomas & Mack Center with the stage in the background
Campus News |

An enduring UNLV end-of-semester tradition is to highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

A student looks over an airport tarmac; a plane is in the background.
Campus News |

Students discover how aviation gave wings to the American West.
 

UNLV XMAS
Campus News |

This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.

Honors In The News

Yahoo!

How bleak is the future for low-cost airlines? For decades, budget carriers successfully offered travelers no-frills, cheap flights. But that scrappy business model is now eroding as costs soar and passengers opt for more comfortable seats and spacious upgrades.

KSNV-TV: News 3

President Donald Trump has been actively signing executive orders since taking office, prompting discussions about whether he is altering the traditional legislative process by bypassing Congress.

UNILAD

A list of requirements given for people hoping to land a job as a cabin crew member in 1954 has gone viral, with each request almost more wild than the last. And to give you a quick insight as to just how shocking they really are, the first one is 'Single - Not Engaged'. In a happy relationship? Sorry, you just don't make the cut.

Newsweek

Apost highlighting the rigid and appearance-based qualifications required to become a flight attendant in the 1950s has gone viral on Reddit. The post, shared by Reddit user ineedtofiguremys***, has amassed 34,000 upvotes since it was posted on February 11.

City Cast Las Vegas

A lot of wild ideas get launched in Vegas and we’re home to the weirdest combination of architecture on the planet. But is there another Vegas, an even weirder version, that was never built? As the city waits to see if the A’s baseball stadium will break ground this year, co-hosts Sarah Lohman and Dayvid Figler sit down with UNLV history professor Michael Green to run through the wildest Vegas projects that were never built.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Las Vegas City Hall does not display nor possess a photo of the mayor considered “the most controversial” in the town’s history, but historians say his tumultuous term is worth learning.

Honors Experts

A licensed clinical psychologist and noted expert on women's health and human sexuality. 
An economist studying microeconometrics, economics of food security, health economics, and urban economics        
An expert in Nevada, Civil War, and gaming history.
An expert on commercial aviation, airport history, and travel.
An expert in ethnic and national identities, geopolitics, and cross-border cooperation in Eastern Europe and the European Union. 

Recent Honors Accomplishments

Assistant professor-in-residence Michael Chin (Honors College) published a work of creative non-fiction with Eunoia Review, titled "RUN-HIDE-FIGHT." The essay pairs reflections on his experience teaching at UNLV during the tragic events of Dec. 6, 2023, with experiences from his youth
Gillian Gottlieb (Honors College; Nursing) with Corrin Sullivan, Dale Netski, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published an article, "Anxiety and Depression Among College Students in the Post-COVID-19 Phase," in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health. 
Gillian Gottlieb, Lisa Menegatos (Honors), Brenna Renn (Psychology), with Corrin Sullivan, Dale Netski and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "The Mental Health Impact Among College Students in the Post-COVID-19 Phase" at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium held at UNLV.  Gottlieb is graduating this…
Michael Green (History; Honors) was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a national research library and learned society founded in 1812.
Project Wellness President Jose Llanes, faculty co-advisors to Project Wellness Ursula Kamanga (Honors; Communication Studies) and Daniel Bubb (Honors; Academic Affairs), the Project Wellness Executive Board, and the Project Wellness Planning Board published an article in The Beacon, a newsletter distributed to colleges and universities…
Members of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the American Medical Student Association, Project Wellness, and other UNLV students participated in assembling hygiene and health kits for the unhoused. In all, 20 students participated in this project, resulting in 153 kits that will be given to the unhoused. Next week, the kits will be delivered to local Las Vegas…