In The News: Graduate College

WYFF 4

Pamela Hernandez was excited to walk across the stage at her college graduation, but the moment got even sweeter when her military father was able to travel from overseas to surprise her at the ceremony.

Trial Site News

A growing body of evidence suggests that an imbalance of the human gut microbiome is associated with the development of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) via neuroinflammatory processes across the gut-brain axis. Now, researchers at the University of Las Vegas have identified 10 bacterial groups associated with Alzheimer’s disease, providing new insights into the relationship between the gut and dementia.

CNN

A commencement ceremony in Las Vegas turned into a heartfelt reunion between a military father and his daughter. For Douglas Hernandez, watching his daughter graduate was a moment he simply couldn't miss again.

Yahoo!

Father who has been deployed since July surprises daughter at UNLV graduation.

Las Vegas Review Journal

More than 3,500 UNLV students are graduating in three spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday at the university’s Thomas & Mack Center.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

On Friday night, a military father who has been deployed in the Middle East since July surprised his daughter at her UNLV graduation.

Live Now Fox

The members of the K-Pop stars, BTS will perform their required military service, placing the group on hiatus until around 2025.

Las Vegas Sun

Rob Lang, a renowned public policy expert in Southern Nevada, may have died in June 2021, but his legacy won’t soon be forgotten. You can drive around Las Vegas and see the fruits of his labor everywhere, from UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine to Allegiant Stadium — two projects on which Lang consulted. UNLV, where Lang was a longtime professor, is looking to raise some of the next “Rob Langs,” and the university has found its first of many.

Wired

It's been six months since the Nord Stream gas pipelines were ruptured by a series of explosions, leaking tons of methane into the environment and igniting an international whodunit. Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and an unnamed pro-Ukrainian group have all been accused of planting explosives on the Baltic Sea pipelines in recent months. But half a year since the sabotage took place, the mystery remains unsolved.

Nevada Independent

After more than a year of lobbying both on campus and in Carson City, graduate students at UNR and UNLV are on track to receive a $20 million boost in assistantship stipends under Gov. Joe Lombardo’s proposed budget.

The Ukrainian Review

The initiative on the Safe Transportation of Grain and Foodstuffs from Ukrainian ports was signed on 27 July 2022. This agreement is supposed to decrease the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on developing the world food crisis. “The Ukrainian Review” has checked three widespread Russian fakes about this deal.

Tallahassee Democrat

When I read the sign posted at the St. Marks Headwaters Greenway off Baum Road, I wondered about its wording. It was direct and clear. What I wondered about was the psychology behind the words. How do you communicate a concern about arsonists and their activity that does not embolden them, but encourages them to reconsider?