2011 UNLV Magazine cover featuring a child wearing a graduation cap and gown

UNLV Magazine

Spring 2011
Volume 19 Issue 1

In This Issue

Karla Washington leaning against a wall
A science teacher. A single mom. First-generation college graduates and business leaders. Read about how UNLV changed their lives and gave them value.
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Wali Zaidi and fellow engineering students win the international Humanitarian Technology Challenge with their plan for bringing electricity to people in rural areas of the world.
Three women discussing at a table with an iPad and notebook
The UNLV Psychological Assessment and Testing Clinic provides a much-needed, low-cost service to the community by evaluating cognitive and academic skills of kindergarteners through adults.
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Dave Rice, UNLV's new head basketball coach, shares his thoughts on the championship team he played on and the ones he hopes to lead now.
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Joe Carter of the Thomas & Mack Center is using the Bottoms Up beer dispensing system to speed up beer lines and to provide patrons with a commemorative magnet and fun experience.
A man wearing a baseball hat and red polo shirt leaning against a pole barrier
Tim Chambers works his way up the coaching ranks from local high school JV squad to Division I.
A sign in desert that reads "Private property. Sportsman welcome. Environmental maggots keep out. Bud Bedke"
State still contending with the history of tension between Nevadans and federal authorities.
A carlin-type gold deposit
A team of UNLV and UNR researchers have devised a new model for how Nevada’s gold deposits formed, which may help in exploration efforts for new gold deposits.
UNLV's Flashlight sculpture with red lighting shining outwards of it
The Flashlight has become a treasured part of the UNLV landscape. Here's the back story on how it came to be.
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Mike Miller, creator of our Hey Reb! mascot, died in fall 2014. Here's how the Las Vegas artist came to create the mountain man we have today.
A man having his arm perched on a desk with the foreground showing a shelf of various alcohol bottles
Alumnus Brett Ottolenghi builds a company as a treasure hunter for some of Las Vegas' top chefs.
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UNLV Team To Survey Students and Staff, Draft Tobacco Free Campus Policies and Introduce Cessation Programs at UNLV, CSN and Nevada State
A pregnant mom holding her belly
UNLV working with local nonprofits and churches to lead pregnancy prevention program.
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Professor Barbara St. Pierre Schneider Awarded $2.26 Million To Test Impact of Air Transport on Skeletal Muscle Crush Injury; Estrogen as Intervention
A mask with the background filled with a display of masks
The Barrick Museum's extensive collection of Mexican and Guatamalan masks.
A red notebook with white lettering of U-N-L-V on the cover
What have your fellow UNLV graduates been up to? Read about their latest accomplishments.