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Melba Borrero, Dr. David Di John, and Aaryana Mostafaeipour posing in a clinic hallway.
Business and Community |

The Maternal Child Wellness Program provides family-centered outpatient care for low-income women, infants, children, and youth affected by HIV.

Jeremy Kilburn on right speaks with a surgeon wearing scrubs
People |

UNLV, UMC, and military medicine partners are on a mission to strengthen healthcare in Southern Nevada.

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People |

The Integrated Health Sciences professor has cultivated his career by helping students succeed.

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People |

Lee Business School alumna Krishna Jayasankar Menon overcame injury to earn All-American honors and a national title. Now she's eyeing the Olympics as she works on a master's degree.

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The man convicted of rap icon Tupac Shakur’s murder gets 40 years to life in prison, but remains defiant.

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Skimpy, stretchy gym outfits have been around longer than the recent “SNL” host has been alive.

Associated Press

Janelle Sorenson loves the clear night skies in Boulder City, less than an hour’s drive from the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. It’s a small, quiet town, and she thinks an artificial intelligence data center would ruin the community and scar the desert landscape.

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Campus News |

Students in the new bachelor's program benefit from a Las Vegas home field advantage and industry connections.

Dr. Nadia Gomez and Dr. Yarini Quezada alongside medical equipment.
Research |

Two national studies led locally by UNLV Health physicians expand options for patients while raising the profile of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV as a center for clinical research.

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People |

The senior associate director of Student Government and Activities brings more than a decade of UNLV event experience to her new role co-chairing the university’s 60th Homecoming.

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People |

An ‘eventful’ life and career led the 2026 Silver State Award honoree to develop a philanthropic relationship with UNLV that has proven to be mutually beneficial.

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People |

For the Patrick T. Smith Achievement in Service honoree, offering a helping hand to those in need isn’t an obligation — it’s a way of life.

Recent Accomplishments

Hikmet Loe (Art) served as juror for two art organizations this fall: she was invited to jury the new hybrid art form category for Friends of Great Salt Lake annual "Alfred Lambourne Prize" (Salt Lake City); and was curator and juror for the Clark County Public Arts exhibition "Desert Pools" held at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center in Las Vegas.
Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented her research titled "Associations of Prenatal and Childhood polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) with Kidney Function at Age 12" at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Nevada Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) recently had an encyclopedia entry accepted for publication in the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy about Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory. The entry describes the propositions, scope, and state of research utilizing CPM as a framework to…
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