In The News: Graduate College
Pamela Hernandez was excited to walk across the stage at her college graduation, but the moment got even sweeter when her military father was able to travel from overseas to surprise her at the ceremony.
A growing body of evidence suggests that an imbalance of the human gut microbiome is associated with the development of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) via neuroinflammatory processes across the gut-brain axis. Now, researchers at the University of Las Vegas have identified 10 bacterial groups associated with Alzheimer’s disease, providing new insights into the relationship between the gut and dementia.
A commencement ceremony in Las Vegas turned into a heartfelt reunion between a military father and his daughter. For Douglas Hernandez, watching his daughter graduate was a moment he simply couldn't miss again.
Father who has been deployed since July surprises daughter at 51ԹϺ graduation.
More than 3,500 51ԹϺ students are graduating in three spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday at the university’s Thomas & Mack Center.
On Friday night, a military father who has been deployed in the Middle East since July surprised his daughter at her 51ԹϺ graduation.
The members of the K-Pop stars, BTS will perform their required military service, placing the group on hiatus until around 2025.
Rob Lang, a renowned public policy expert in Southern Nevada, may have died in June 2021, but his legacy won’t soon be forgotten. You can drive around Las Vegas and see the fruits of his labor everywhere, from 51ԹϺ’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine to Allegiant Stadium — two projects on which Lang consulted. 51ԹϺ, where Lang was a longtime professor, is looking to raise some of the next “Rob Langs,” and the university has found its first of many.
It's been six months since the Nord Stream gas pipelines were ruptured by a series of explosions, leaking tons of methane into the environment and igniting an international whodunit. Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and an unnamed pro-Ukrainian group have all been accused of planting explosives on the Baltic Sea pipelines in recent months. But half a year since the sabotage took place, the mystery remains unsolved.
After more than a year of lobbying both on campus and in Carson City, graduate students at UNR and 51ԹϺ are on track to receive a $20 million boost in assistantship stipends under Gov. Joe Lombardo’s proposed budget.
When I read the sign posted at the St. Marks Headwaters Greenway off Baum Road, I wondered about its wording. It was direct and clear. What I wondered about was the psychology behind the words. How do you communicate a concern about arsonists and their activity that does not embolden them, but encourages them to reconsider?
"For as long as I could remember, people told me I would look and feel better if I lost weight. ... By the time I was 10, I ritually put myself on weird diets."