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A selection of top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
More than a quarter-century ago, Andrew Belanger landed an internship with the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s public services department — the same department the Honors College Alumnus of the Year now runs.
From trips to Peru and an alien zoo, UNLV faculty lead students on learning journeys via the university’s newest immersive learning tools.
Felicia Hersh’s original career plan vanished in the blink of an eye. Thankfully, another quickly surfaced, nudging the Liberal Arts Alumna of the Year into a career rich with history.
The top news stories starring university students and staff.
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Sporadic flight cancellations that have popped up over the government shutdown could quickly escalate after the Federal Aviation Administration said it would cut traffic by 10% at dozens of major airports as air traffic controllers work without pay with lawmakers struggling to break an impasse to bring an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The thieves who stole some of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre last month while dressed as maintenance workers may have been a shock to some, but for the Mob Museum’s Claire White, the brazen tactics utilized in the heist were nothing new.

President Donald Trump set off a flurry of questions with a recent social media post that puts Nevada squarely at the center of the ultimate hot button issue: nuclear testing.

President Donald Trump set off a flurry of questions with a recent social media post that puts Nevada squarely at the center of the ultimate hot button issue: nuclear testing.
Last week, a Virginia couple filed an emergency motion to stop President Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing, citing violations of federal preservation laws. To learn more about the history of the East Wing, LiveNOW’s Shawna Khalafi is speaking with Michael Green, an associate professor of history in UNLV's Department of History.

President Donald Trump’s call to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing prompted quick condemnation from some Nevada congressional Democrats. It’s unclear exactly what directive Trump gave in a Wednesday post on his social media platform and whether he meant that a nuclear warhead should be detonated in the testing. But any changes to the program could run through Nevada, home of the former Nevada Test Site where nuclear weapons were once tested and are now maintained as the Nevada National Security Site.
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