School of Public Policy and Leadership News
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Current Public Policy and Leadership News
This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.
A monthly roundup of the top news stories at UNLV, featuring the presidential election, gaming partnerships, and much more.
Urban Affairs Alumna of the Year — and die-hard Rebel — Aileen Pastor parlays her internship into a career with the Regional Transportation Commission.
A monthly roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV staff and students.
UNLV's School of Public Policy and Leadership offers courses in data visualization that are helping to create a workforce pipeline.
MPA student Andrea Rangelova gets a taste of Chile’s business practices to enrich her future professional experience.
Public Policy and Leadership In The News
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada has never missed a Thanksgiving meal since the program’s inception in 1965.
A second Donald Trump term will have a significant impact on environmental policies that can lead to many climate experts leaving the federal environment agency, an expert has warned.
In 2024, elections are set to take place in at least 64 countries, representing about 49% of the global population. That's a lot to fool. And this time, spreading like fire, AI technologies can potentially influence voters in ways we've never seen before.
I must respond to several writings of Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks on climate change. In particular, Joecks recently argued that the lead culprit of the summer 2024 Las Vegas heat wave, peaking at 120 degrees, was the 2022 volcanic eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano. This is a misattribution.
Heat has claimed the lives of more people in 2024 in Southern Nevada than in any prior year on record, officials said. The latest round of heat-related-death data from the Clark County coroner’s office, released on Thursday, shows that heat was a factor in the deaths of 342 people. It’s without question that the toll will continue to rise, especially as it can take up to 90 days to determine a cause of death — and whether heat was a factor.
There is a desperate need for more charges in Nevada according to some EV drivers. FOX5 spoke with drivers who are often forced to wait in lines to charge up. “I am swapping this in tomorrow and getting a gas vehicle,” Steven Blocker told FOX5. Blocker, an Uber driver using an electric vehicle, just moved to Henderson from San Diego a month and a half ago.