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In a state with few higher education bragging rights, UNLV’s first-tier law school produces graduates that are in demand locally, with students doing well on the state bar exam. But the school’s success could plummet quickly if something isn’t done about the dearth in its budget.
They went to some places in the world where American soldiers are seldom seen, where Kirundi and Swahili are spoken more than English, where the way of life is much different than the UNLV campus where they walk around in camouflaged uniforms that student ROTC cadets wear to become Army officers.
The state’s Board of Regents’ health sciences committee is hashing out the details of what it will take to fund a medical school for UNLV.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
One minute, 8-year-old Zorion Connell is talking about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s articulating math equations using Ohm’s law. On April 5, he passed the Federal Communications Commission’s amateur radio license exam.
It was the smell that led to the discovery of a 58-year-old UNLV student who died in her dorm room last month. A dorm counselor investigating a strange odor from the room found her body on Sept. 5 in Faiman Residence Hall.
Kevin Raiford, a business professor at the College of Southern Nevada, was recently ranked third on ratemyprofessors.com’s 2011-12 list of top professors.
Elementary, middle and high schools in the same neighborhoods are going to get a lot cozier with each other as they are organized into cooperative teams beginning this month. The Clark County School District will be creating 14 “performance zones” based on location and achievement.
Dental implants can have a huge impact – for Glenn and Debbie, they were a dream come true. Glenn was like so many people suffering through nagging discomfort and continual issues with their teeth. After years of suffering and no clear path to relief, Glenn finally met someone else with the same issues and found […]
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
