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The First-Gen Forerunner: Beatriz Aguirre
The Las Vegas native completed her undergrad at Reno and returned home for law school. After graduation, she’ll head north again for a clerkship in Carson City.![woman outside](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Dibenedetto.png?itok=S-WyQrUH)
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The Cultural Researcher: Katelyn DiBenedetto
DiBenedetto came from New York to study with leading professors and live in a different part of the country. “And Las Vegas is that,” she said.![Soni Brown](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Soni.png?itok=sdqHLRCv)
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The Storyteller: Soni Brown
The nontraditional student worked as a flight attendant and juggled motherhood as she discovered her path to becoming a storyteller.![Breanna Boppre](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Boppre.jpg?itok=ht2697-e)
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The Rebuilder: Breanna Boppre
Boppre channeled her childhood experience into a lifelong goal of bringing changes to the incarceration system in order to help people rebuild their lives.
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Building a Better Pancreas
Commencement speaker Michelle Quizon is searching for the right materials to help build artificial organs that could help make diabetes a thing of the past.
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Rooting Out the Root of Conflict: Michael Moncrieff
The commencement speaker is exploring the way ethnic violence explodes, in a bid to eventually help stop crises before they start.![photo collage with text for #UNLVGrad](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/series/Commencement%202018%20collage.jpg?itok=Dycp93Un)
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The 2018 Class: Rebels Who Inspire
Favorite memories, biggest challenges, and what it means to be a Rebel.
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UNLV to Celebrate Spring 2018 Commencement May 12 at Thomas & Mack Center
More than 3,000 students from 37 states and 57 countries to participate in 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies this Saturday.![Portrait Edwin Oh](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D72012_016.jpg?itok=r7Ax5Kgm)
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New Face: Edwin Oh
This neuroscientist joined UNLV to discover how DNA contributes to disease development or prevention.![close-up of artwork](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/BUSH.jpg?itok=FBJUlqAE)
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Barrick Museum Presents "Plural: Meet the Artists" May 10
The artists discuss what it means to make art in Las Vegas today.![Daniel Benyshek](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D68986_21.jpg?itok=JCQTJVIx)
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Study: Maternal Placenta Consumption Causes No Harm to Newborns
The largest study of its kind found mothers who consumed their placenta passed on no harm to their newborn babies.![Portrait Michael Schwob](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D72058_025.jpg?itok=srxI9V8E)
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