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UNLV President Keith Whitfield spent part of his annual state of the university address on Tuesday raving about the students and professors who are thriving at the institution.

UNLV rings in its spring semester on Tuesday with a mixture of in-person and hybrid classes.  

The Board of Regents voted 9-4 to approve a letter explicitly supporting and requesting the imposition of a new COVID vaccine mandate for more than 100,000 students across the Nevada System of Higher Education during a special meeting Friday, a symbolic move that could aid in the resurrection of such a mandate later this year. 

Despite more than a year and a half of fiscal and academic chaos spurred by the pandemic, two Nevada universities are set to maintain their status as Carnegie “R1” research universities under a preliminary classification announced late Wednesday.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno have again been recognized as two of the top research universities in the nation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

A look back at some of the best discussions from Nevada Week in 2021.

Nevada public universities allow students who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enroll in spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make an emergency mandate permanent.