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

Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of 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.

Graphic with words on screen, The Killing Drugs: Synthetic Opioids Around the World
Business and Community |

Brookings Mountain West and UNLV health care and criminal justice faculty experts partner with Washington think tank on podcast series addressing the opioid abuse epidemic.
 

Undergrad researcher Benjamin Sabir helps H. Jeremy Cho examine an atmospheric water harvesting device. (Jeff Scheid/UNLV)
Campus News |

A monthly roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV staff and students.

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Campus News |

Brookings Mountain West and the Lied Center for Real Estate at UNLV host national housing policy experts to present research and discuss housing finance system reforms on Sept. 23.

Brookings Mountain West In The News

Nevada Current

Statewide, there is one mental health professional for every 460 residents, and every Nevada county is federally designated as having a mental health provider shortage, according to a separate 2023 study from the UNLV/Brookings Mountain West. Nevada would need 235 mental health professionals to eliminate the shortage designation.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

The spotlight is on two movie studio bills going before Nevada lawmakers, as Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. look for tax credits in exchange for bringing thousands of jobs, new facilities and hundreds of millions of dollars in investments.

Triangle Business Journal

As a pediatric doctor in New Bern, Dr. David Tayloe III has experienced months long delays when referring his patients to a specialist. This can lead to delays in a diagnosis, which impacts treatment and can affect the health of the child, said Tayloe, the executive vice president of the N.C. Pediatric Society.

KNPR News

The metropolitan Las Vegas area continues to be a popular destination for folks looking to leave Southern California.

KNPR News

The metropolitan Las Vegas area continues to be a popular destination for folks looking to leave Southern California.

Las Vegas Sun

Jeremy Aguero started his yearly economic report at Preview Las Vegas on Thursday morning reiterating the valley’s “remarkable” development over the past few decades.

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Recent Brookings Mountain West Accomplishments

David Damore, Caitlin Saladino, and William Brown (all Brookings Mountain West) recently published a commentary piece in a Brookings Institution blog titled, "A constitutional amendment to change higher education governance in Nevada." Their piece discusses the history and implications of ballot Question 1 which appears in the upcoming State of…
William Brown, Caitlin Saladino, and David Damore (all from Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) co-authored a piece titled, "County needs a stand-alone children’s hospital," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece recaps an recent community forum that detailed the health and economic benefits of a stand-alone children’s…
Annie Vong (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), Zachary Billot (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), and Nicole Dias Del Valle (Political Science; Philosophy Law & Justice; Brookings Public Policy) recently co-authored a Brookings Institution blog post titled, "Youth voices in the 2024 election: What students want to see on the…
Anirudh Polagani (The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently had their op-ed, "Still overdependent on tourism after all these years," published in the Nevada Current. The piece insites a call to action for Las Vegas to continue to invest in building a robust and diverse economy and lessen its reliance on the tourism sector.
Monserrat Cristando-Romo and Caitlin Saladino (both The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently published "Child care is a daily puzzle Nevadans must put together to participate in the workforce" in the Nevada Current. Their op-ed discusses the imbalance between the need for quality child care and the supply of such facilities,…
Maryam Raja (The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West; Political Science) recently attended the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Western Governors’ Association, representing Nevada as part of the Western Governors' Leadership Institute (WGLI). The WGLI is a prestigious program developed by the Western Governors' Association to…