Office of Government & Community Engagement News
The Office of Government & Community Engagement seeks to support, facilitate, and promote collaboration, partnership, and engagement between the university and its many communities.
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A $400,000 federal appropriation provides UNLV's Clinical Simulation Center with state-of-the-art resources for nursing students to hone their skills.
Centralized registration streamlines process for parents seeking university summer camps and programming for K-12 students.
2024 Service-Learning Award recipient Rachel Anderson combines passions of community service and teaching for new legal clinic.
2024 UNLV Student Service Award winner Makayla Franklin inspires Black pride and representation on campus through Afrikan Black Coalition Conference.
Public Health professor Erika Marquez receives 2024 Community Engagement Award for her work breaking down barriers to reach marginalized communities.
Government & Community Engagement In The News
Take a walk on UNLV’s campus and you might see a knee-high white box on wheels branded with an orange Grubhub logo. The robots speed among students and faculty making their way across campus on a food run to a hungry recipient. These robots from Starship Technologies have made UNLV home for the past two years, but their food deliveries are limited to the university’s boundaries.
Robots could roam the public sidewalks and crosswalks around UNLV to deliver food to thousands of students and staff, but it all hinges on where Clark County officials permit them to go.
Requiring employees at Nevada colleges and universities to get the COVID-19 vaccine — that is the big decision on the table this week, but it is causing some controversy.