News: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
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The nontraditional student worked as a flight attendant and juggled motherhood as she discovered her path to becoming a storyteller.
![Breanna Boppre](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Boppre.jpg?itok=ht2697-e)
Boppre channeled her childhood experience into a lifelong goal of bringing changes to the incarceration system in order to help people rebuild their lives.
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Two paws up for these grads who share their love of UNLV through the eyes of their sheepadoodles.
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Nevada undergraduate research journal offers UNLV students the opportunity to promote their research and boost their resumes.
Alexis Kennedy wins 2018 Community-Based Research Award for a study that includes the views of survivors.
Criminal justice student Max Ornelas juggles hitting the books and hitting the heavy bag as a pro boxer.
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Awards recognize those on campus who demonstrate a commitment to community partnership
![Portrait of Yuri Graves, UNLV's first emergency manager, stands by a call box.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D72025_001.jpg?itok=2fT1SEcI)
The university's emergency manager comes by his experience with crisis planning courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Student experiences are the focus of Greenspun College of Urban Affairs partnership to launch the Emerge + Music festival.
UNLV’s young debate team is ranked fifth in the nation and poised to make a deep run in March’s National Debate Tournament.
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In Season 2, find out why UNLV is one of U.S. News & World Report’s most diverse campuses in the nation.
![Melissa Rorie at a gaming table.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71918_001.jpg?itok=L9-Mz-TG)
Criminal justice professor Melissa Rorie digs into the relationship between Nevada's casinos and its gaming regulators.