Think of TEDxUNLV as a festival — a Burning Man, perhaps — of ideas.
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Faith Lutheran CEO Steven Buuck oversees a 1,900-student school — and loves it.
Jaclyn Rivera remembers her mother being treated for breast cancer when Jaclyn was just 15. She also remembers how dramatically her mother’s course of treatment altered not just the family’s life, but her own perspective.
For 14 years, Claytee D. White has been recording the histories of longtime Southern Nevadans as director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries.
English professor Felicia Campbell has spent more than 50 years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which already makes her career notable in a facts-and-figures kind of way.
Over the past several weeks, Michael Green, an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has added another entry to his usual roster of entertainment-related activities: politics-watching.
St. Anne Catholic School observes its 60th anniversary this school year with nearly full enrollment and dedication to its traditional faith-based educational approach.
John Bowers’ teaching honors include UNLV’s Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship and he has written scholarly works about literary classics and canonical authors. Almost through serendipity the English professor reached out to a much wider audience through The Great Courses.
Students in the Clark County School District resume classes Monday. But, even as summer’s end beckoned, several valley students still were finding ways to wring the last bit of enjoyment out of the respite.
Another school year begins, and children once again prepare themselves to face the scary — at least for a kid — prospect of having to get used to a brand-new teacher.