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Spring 2023

Opportunity vs. Exclusivity: A New View of a University’s Value

UNLV is emerging as a national leader in fostering the economic mobility of its graduates. For Southern Nevada, that means a healthier middle class.

Current Issue: Spring 2023

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UNLV is emerging as a national leader in fostering the economic mobility of its graduates. For Southern Nevada, that means a healthier middle class.

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UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield introduces "The Rebel Ride" — and offers a challenge to the campus community. 

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President Keith E. Whitfield turns his treasured classic car into a UNLV conversation-starter.

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The UNLV/CSUN Preschool at the Lynn Bennett Center for Early Childhood Education is about to hit a big growth spurt.

COE 303 Student textbook

COE 303 is a new course helping student veterans transition into academia and a normal life.

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Honors College students help local shelters to expand their libraries while learning more about housing insecurity issues prevalent in the U.S.

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The Sustainability Task Force is working to create UNLV's official climate action plan.

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National champs Rebel Girls & Company changes the game for competitive collegiate dance teams.

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What we love about women's basketball. 

H. Jeremy Cho

New UNLV research is using a resource hidden in plain sight, pulling water out of thin air through atmospheric water harvesting.

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UNLV School of Integrated Health Sciences professor Francis Cucinotta participates in research with implications to be felt from a doctor’s exam room to the nuclear energy industry. 

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Beyond being passionate about researching climate change and its environmental impacts — Marie-Odile Fortier is unobjectively enthusiastic about educating others on the complex topic.

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Researchers say tracking methodology in Southern Nevada fungal outbreak provides blueprint for monitoring and responding to emerging global public health threat.

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International team of scientists reports a possible correlation between gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and fast radio bursts; results could improve understanding of how some deep-space bursts occur.  

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Food Pantry, Nutrition Center cook up unique educational collaborations.

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Elise Pearlstine — wildlife biologist, perfumer, author, alumna — discusses the complex and storied relationship between humans and fragrant plants in her newest book.

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Physicist Elizabeth Donley tackles the challenge of precisely redefining the second.

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Marge and Bill Speer’s love and dedication to each other and the university has been commemorated in what once was their favorite spot on campus.

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Honoring the members of the UNLV community we've lost this past year