![UNLV magazine cover featuring a bedazzled graduation cap that reads U-N-L-V 60](/sites/default/files/styles/300_width/public/unlv_magazine/cover%20f17.jpg?itok=bfJ4jx0G)
In This Issue
![postcard-style illustration of unlv's 60th anniversary](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/60thOpening.jpg?itok=u_NULCjN)
As UNLV celebrates its 60th anniversary, here are some of the moments that shaped the university.
![Decorated commencement cap that reads Future Doctor](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71301_040.jpg?itok=mYiEFBFl)
The emerging tradition of DIY decorated mortarboards offers professor insight into current day culture.
![Image of Maude Frazier](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Slide07.171805.jpg?itok=6FrfWoQr)
UNLV President Len Jessup on the spirit our campus fosters.
![Victims of the Route 91 attack load onto buses](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/T%26M%20After%20Shooting_AP_17275558292655.jpg?itok=lUgaiTps)
From Police Services to workers at the Thomas & Mack, to students and counselors, UNLV was a front-line safe haven for victims and survivors.
Addy Guida’s battle with cancer as a student-athlete inspired a new career path in medicine.
![UNLV Dining Commons cashier Minnie Epps smiles.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/MinnieEpps.jpg?itok=Wz5jF8BB)
Longtime employee Minnie Epps named to Aramark's prestigious 2017 Ring of Stars.
![UNLV students evaluate wheelchair friendliness at Red Rock National Conservation Area](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/wheelchair_redrock.jpg?itok=7xoepjrw)
UNLV students help find the friendliest facilities for the travelers with mobility limitations in Las Vegas.
![Hailey Dawson shows off her Baltimore Orioles-themed Robohand](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Hailey%20Orioles%20Hand.jpg?itok=n710G2B9)
UNLV College of Engineering teams up with a baseball-loving 7-year-old to raise awareness for a rare condition. Here's how you can be part of the team for other kids who need "Robohands."
![Trees on campus](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Trees_D71671_012.jpg?itok=WsJhCPKE)
Among our campus' more than 4,300 trees are 10 specimens that stand above all others in Nevada.
![man clearing away palm tree branches](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Dzerk_D68176_21.jpg?itok=YGtgDHcY)
Paul Dzerk came to UNLV three decades ago to transform the dusty campus into the arboretum it is today.
As athletics director takes stock of UNLV's programs, she lays down the roadmap to the future.
Dick Calvert has been behind the mic for most of school’s history.
![Two female soccer players going after the soccer ball on the field](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/SophieCortesHorizontal.jpg?itok=0yn0YFjG)
The women's soccer standout may forget her cleats when she goes on the road, but she wouldn't be caught without Netflix access to watch "Peaky Blinders."
![man sitting between burned trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71576_027.jpg?itok=LzBAcbFV)
Economics researchers capitalize on the dynamics wildfire to prove infants’ proximity to smoke pollution while in utero affects birthweight.
![Nursing professor Jay Tan examining a person's mouth](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D71617_04.jpg?itok=0QXKRZwD)
Nursing professor Jay Tan uses pharmacogenetics to unlock the medications and dosages that work for a patient's individual genetic makeup.
![Solar panels in the Eldorado Valley](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D65027-43.jpg?itok=oeMfhbLW)
Researchers investigate the environmental footprint of solar facilities to guide future design.
![student Alexis Hilts and assistant professor Matt Bernacki](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/AlexisHilts.jpg?itok=S1Z4i_Xt)
Undergrad Alexis Hilts will present her honors thesis at the American Psychological Association's national conference.
![senior Amber Turner and alumna Lisa Danielson](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71525_005.jpg?itok=XymCXUMO)
UNLV undergraduate and NASA intern Amber Turner shares her remarkable research journey, which may someday lead to human civilizations on other planets.
Professor Lynn Comella on the adult store industry, a highly profitable segment of popular culture that scholars and policymakers know surprisingly little about.
![A man leaning into a megaphone that reads U-N-L-V](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Warren_D71752_023.jpg?itok=QETkJksH)
As the new leader of alumni engagement amps up the power of 115,000 alumni, Chad Warren wants feedback from Rebels around the world.
![A family of six sitting down on porch steps](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/CutlerFamily.jpg?itok=K29zxwhL)
From a campus proposal under UNLV's "kissing tree" to a medical crisis — how alumni Matthew and Laura Cutler have handled it all.
![woman with inset image of magazine cover](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/eck_cover_main.jpg?itok=Pniwt7jK)
UNLV alumna blings out a commemorative graduation cap for the cover of UNLV Magazine.
![Two men in hardhats and suits](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Harrah.jpg?itok=ry0dAGjO)
New name reflects changes in the industry, but continues to honor namesake William F. Harrah.