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Campus News |

A scholarship program built around community has graduated 74% of its students and earned a $2 million NSF grant to expand.

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Campus News |

Some of the hottest headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.

Magnus Chun, MD, is a third-year resident in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine.
People |

Driven by all kinds of research, Dr. Magnus Chun has a keen interest in gastroenterology topics.

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Campus News |

Mural and leadership course pay homage to women who have elevated the hospitality industry while acknowledging the challenges that remain.

UNLV Experts In The News

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Prices for products and services are likely to surge because of the conflict in the Middle East, and Las Vegas drivers are already worried when it comes to gas prices. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of gasoline was $3.25 as of Thursday. In Las Vegas, that average is $3.90.

Wide Open Spaces

With constant news articles and images of plane crashes or accidents occurring, it is only natural that people would have some fear. However professor Dan Bubb helps put those anxieties to rest. The outlet shared that despite the fear circulating in the media, "rigorous safety standards in the aviation industry have exponentially reduced the number of yearly fatalities over the last half-century."

Martha Stewart

To break down these often-used terms, we chatted with experts to demystify the difference between disinfecting and sanitizing. Plus, the germ-eradicating mistakes you might be making at home.

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Arts and Culture |

The free concert features several world premieres of music ranging from miniature vibraphone interludes to compositions for mixed ensemble.

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Arts and Culture |

The classic Baroque opera seria dazzles with vocal fireworks and larger-than-life mythic figures.

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People |

This audiovisual specialist brought fun shirts and award-winning TV production experience to his job building technology spaces for Rebels.

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Research |

UNLV mechanical engineering lab creates 3D-printed synthetic sea lion pelvis, enhancing veterinary capabilities and countering ongoing beaching crisis.

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Campus News |

Lee Business School students volunteering with the VITA program can help you file with clarity and confidence.

Recent Accomplishments

Christopher J. Fang, Cameron Harris, Matthew Michelberger, Alex Woster, Hilary Koech, Karen Nelson (all Medicine) won “Top Paper Award” at the National American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2026 annual meeting. Selected out of 7,000+ abstracts 
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a senior collaborator in the GBD 2023 Breast Cancer Collaborators in the publication of the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of breast cancer among females, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in the…
Monika Karney, alumna Taylor Gerson, and Helen Wing (Life Sciences) published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). Gerson completed her Ph.D. in December and is a post-doc at Scripps Research, San Diego, Calif. Karney is a self-funded MS student who works as a lab manager on Wing's team. 
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