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How a stubborn bird dropping on a campus building helped spark the winning students’ idea for a high-rise window-cleaning drone.
Joyce Woodhouse leaves Nevada better for children and families.
Interim President Chris Heavey spoke of UNLV’s important role in the community and the power of research universities to drive progress worldwide.
UNLV plans a new Lee Business School building to strengthen the region’s workforce, expand industry partnerships, and support Southern Nevada’s growing economy.
Before heading to the State of the University address on April 8, take a peek inside Chris Heavey’s office.
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Back-to-school season kicked off with an opening ceremony for the Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus on Wednesday at UNLV. The Marlow campus is an expansion of the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool. The new campus will serve up to 80 additional preschool students and include space for early childhood and special education research.
It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.
It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.
A 2022 analysis by Brookings Mountain West at UNLV found the average debt for Nevada borrowers at the time was $34,000. The national average was $39,000.
Up and down and up again. This isn’t describing the stock market — it’s the many long-discussed ways planners have considered revamping the Tropicana Avenue/University Center Drive intersection. But after eight years of planning, multiple revisions and continued dialogue between Clark County and UNLV officials, it appears an agreed-upon project is ready to inch closer to construction.
After nearly two years of construction, Maryland Parkway is poised to see its biggest change yet: the launch of a new, higher-frequency bus rapid transit line this August, as work across the corridor shifts toward its final phases.
