Families with young children around the country and in Nevada will be getting more than just the stimulus checks from the recently passed COVID relief bill.

Nevada hasn’t achieved herd immunity against COVID-19, but it’s close enough to be characterized by one leading state public health official as “herd dulling.”

When the first city in Clark County was introduced to single-stream recycling in 2012, advocates hoped for a robust program that would increase recycling rates and efficiency.

Women account for just 24% of all top income earners at US universities, according to a study from the Eos Foundation. The study, conducted in association with the Washington DC-based American Association of University Women, found that highly compensated women are especially scarce at the tenured and tenure-track faculty level. Although some female faculty members have salaries of well over US$1 million a year, they are the exception. Among faculty members, top-earning men outnumber women by nine to one1.

Don’t lose that vaccination record card, but don’t show it off, either.

People who have been fully vaccinated can still get the coronavirus in what are known as “breakthrough” cases.

People who have been fully vaccinated can still get the coronavirus in what are known as “breakthrough” cases.

Cierra Bliss Wachtel, who goes by Cierra Bliss, began dancing at Boulder City studio Dance Etc. before she’d even turned 5. Now 22, she’s a dance major at UNLV, who recently unveiled an original choreographed piece titled “Skin Shed” and is preparing another, “Spineless,” for an April 22 premiere on the UNLV Dance Department YouTube show, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.

UNLV prof Natalie Pennington on lessons learned from pandemic isolation.