Articles by Francis McCabe
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Discovering Viruses One Hunk of Dirt at a Time
UNLV welcomes inaugural SEA-Phages class, a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course.
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UNLV Hosts Brookings Mountain West Visiting Scholars
Scholars from all five Brookings research areas—Metropolitan Policy, Economic Studies, Governance Studies, Foreign Policy, and Global Economy and Development—will be in residence at UNLV this academic year.
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UNLV Police Unveil RebelSAFE App
The new app, available through iTunes and Google Play, provides users with immediate access to UNLV police dispatchers and other campus emergency services.
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Know Before You Go: Fall Semester Parking Tips
Simple tips to avoid the crowds during the busy start of fall semester at UNLV.
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Sleep Elusive? New Study Shows There’s a Reason for That
UNLV joint study finds that elusive sleep patterns as humans age may have evolved to ensure safety.
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UNLV Students DASH to Help
Delivering And Serving Hope or DASH is one of the longest running volunteer programs at UNLV and helps provide food to Las Vegas homeless through a partnership with the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
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Three UNLV Students Win Fulbright Scholarship
Three UNLV students win coveted nationally competitive grants to study, research, and teach abroad.
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UNLV Study: Warming News from Russia
UNLV Ph.D. candidate’s research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.
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A Life Full of Second Acts
UNLV's oldest graduate finishes his degree after nearly seven decades.