News: Office of Executive Vice President and Provost
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Nearly 3,000 Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students Eligible to Participate; Commencement Will be Live Streamed.
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Sometimes being in the top 4.5 percent in your field just isn't good enough.
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You can help UNLV win the People's Choice Award in the prestigious Solar Decathlon, a competition to build an energy-efficient home. Vote online now.
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UNLV leads regional 13-university partnership, with University of Nevada School of Medicine, to put clinical health research into practice.
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President Neal Smatresk explained UNLV's plan to become a Tier 1 research university during his annual campus address.
Composition instructor Sandra Hooven shares lessons with new freshman on how to approach the inevitable setbacks in their academic careers.
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Grad student and former softball star Marissa Nichols on adopting a winning mindset. Here's some advice she'll share during her UNLV Creates talk.
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Back-to-school events to highlight campus traditions (new and old), student innovation and inspiration, and what the future holds for UNLV.
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UNLV history professor-turned vice provost Gregory Brown debunks “one-of-a-kind” signed Napoleonic document on History Channel’s “Pawn Stars."
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Former UNLV law school dean will serve as chief academic and administrative officer