With the sounds and smells of a hospital assaulting their senses, nursing students learn from their mistakes in advanced training facility.

When alumnus Jim Holland finished his thesis, "climate change" was far from being coined. Thirty years later, the work has been dusted off to help researchers predict the evolution of Southern Nevada's desert ecosystem.

Alumna Cindy Ortega has an unlikely background for someone who just helped open a multibillion dollar resort dedicated to the massaging and feeding of tourists. And at first blush, it seems more unlikely still that her specific job is making such a behemoth environmentally "small."

UNLV's state-of-the-art simulation center recreates the drama nurses experience every day.