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Campus News |

Student Counseling and Psychological Services and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine are working together to expand the availability of psychiatric services for students.

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Campus News |

Students illustrate the invisible factors that define our status quo, one game at a time.

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Business and Community |

More than 3,500 new UNLV graduates crossed the Thomas & Mack Center stage. Watch the video recap.

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People |

The assistant ombuds approaches mediation with culturally competent and trauma-informed strategies.

UNLV Experts In The News

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

Social media is offering educators new ways to engage students. But whether it's effective,  depends on who you ask.

Gambling News

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) International Gaming Institute has announced a collaboration with the Responsible Online Gaming Association (ROGA), which will seek to create a laboratory to examine the risks and opportunities of AI in the gambling industry.

K.N.P.R. News

May 25 marks five years since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking protests about police conduct nationwide, including in Las Vegas. In the aftermath of that movement, what, if anything, changed about the Black experience in Las Vegas? What reforms have police made? Did George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin really change police behavior?

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Arts and Culture |

UNLV’s literary institute launches two new fellowship programs.

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Campus News |

UNLV received no recommendations as part of the Year Seven Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness.

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Business and Community |

New report by UNLV MGM Public Policy Institute examines a high school Career and Technical Education program to increase job placement in hospitality sector.

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Research |

Arthur Soto-Vásquez, journalism and media studies professor, offers tips on media literacy.

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Arts and Culture |

This showcase of emerging artists will present work to challenge norms and reflect a complex world.

Recent Accomplishments

Assistant Professor Megan Griffard, Ph.D., and doctoral student Danette Barber (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published the article, “This Is Not Online Education. It’s Disaster Education”: A Qualitative Study of Remote and Hybrid School Climates During COVID-19" in AERA Open, the open-access journal for…
Kavita Batra, together with Cathleen Danheiser, Alexa Doromal, Molly Drader, Karen Gordon, and Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine), presented the poster, “Advancing Veteran Health Through Collaborative Research,” at the 100th Anniversary of VA Research, hosted by the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System. The presentation underscored the Kirk…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently co-authored a timely and impactful study titled,“One Way or Another: Consequences and Coping Strategies Among Students and Employees Experiencing Stalking,” published in the Iranian Rehabilitation Journal. The research sheds light on the psychological and behavioral toll of stalking in academic and workplace…
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