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Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) faculty and staff Tuesday urged state health officials to mandate a Covid-19 vaccine requirement for college students “as soon as possible,” calling further delay a “failure.”
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NSHE staff and faculty pushed for the board to call an emergency meeting as soon as next week to mandate Covid-19 vaccines before the fall semester 2021.
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Civic Technologies, a leading innovator in digital identity solutions, and Black Fire Innovation, the hospitality technology hub created by Caesars Entertainment, Inc., and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), today announced that a vending machine using Age Verification by Civic will be serving up an assortment of non-alcoholic beverages to Black Fire's tenants.
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Technology savvy employees at a gaming and hospitality technology hub are making age verified transactions from a newly installed vending machine.
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NervGen Pharma Corp., a clinical stage biotech company dedicated to creating innovative solutions for the treatment of nervous system damage, announced yesterday it has entered into a research collaboration with Dr. Ksenia Kastanenka of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to study the effects of NervGen’s lead compound, NVG-291, in validated animal models of Alzheimer’s disease.
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William J. Bauer, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the co-author, with history Professor Damon B. Akins, of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California.
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Boyd Gaming’s Main Street Station casino in downtown Las Vegas will reopen its doors to gambling visitors on September 8 at 6am. This will be the first time in 540 days that the casino property will open its doors since it closed because of pandemic restrictions in March 2020.
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In Nevada’s housing market, cash is king.