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    New year, new you! Students can fulfill their resolutions with a course focused on developing their best selves.

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People |

Motivated by the challenge of understanding the human body, Stephanie Yang is studying potential cures for C. diff infections.

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People |

Go-getter Charles Weber found academic and professional development opportunities through MGM scholarship program at UNLV.

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Campus News |

UNLV employees should continue to take extra steps to check for fake emails and messages in the new year. Here are some tips on how to avoid these newest scams!

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Arts and Culture |

Feuillâtre is 'one of the most exciting classical guitarists of his generation' according to Guitar Salon International.

UNLV Experts In The News

Forbes

In the wake of the raging California wildfires, environmental groups are shifting the climate conversation away from mitigation, toward adaptation and resilience.

Las Vegas Review Journal

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on launching the largest deportation in American history, but the details of how he could get it done once he takes office remain fuzzy — and would likely require the help of state and local officials who are either wavering or uncommitted.

Las Vegas Sun

Jeremy Aguero started his yearly economic report at Preview Las Vegas on Thursday morning reiterating the valley’s “remarkable” development over the past few decades.

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Research |

Computer science professor Shaikh Arifuzzaman on ChatGPT and what’s next for society as the revolutionary AI technology develops.

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Arts and Culture |

Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek at what it takes to bring spectacular lyrics to life, featuring Grammy-nominated lyricist Pamela Phillips Oland.

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People |

With the value of community impressed upon him at the School of Integrated Health Sciences, Nikkita Crozier builds career with U.S. Public Health Service.

Fourth-year medical students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV teaching anatomy to K-fifth graders.
Business and Community |

Community service is embedded in the education of medical students and resident physicians.

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Campus News |

New and revamped student housing theme floors connect students to faculty, campus resources, and each other.

Recent Accomplishments

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) authored a study that uses autoethnographic data obtained from the authors to examine cultural (cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, and gendering of care), social (use of technology), and economic factors (role of remittance) and their interactional effects on the health outcomes of older…
Eve Hanan (Law) presented her paper, "Epistemic Closure: The Role of Emotions in Miscarriage Prosecutions," at the Law and Emotions Seminar hosted by the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. 
Amruta Godbole and Ann Vuong (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Associations between neonicotinoids and inflammation in US adults using hematological indices: NHANES 2015-2016," in the journal Environmental Epidemiology, along with Aimin Chen with the University of Pennsylvania. The paper explores the influence of…
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