Business and Community
| January 5, 2012
Healthy Living Starts When You're Young
UNLV student outreach effort hopes to head off adult obesity by starting with preschool education
Topic: children
People
| May 25, 2011
Psychologist Achieves UNLV’s Highest Honor
Christopher Kearney's work offers insight about why kids might refuse to go to school.
People
| May 18, 2011
Sarah Bagnoli VanderMeer: The Power of Higher Education
VanderMeer is proof that one teacher can change a person’s life. Hers changed in a geography class.
Research
| January 11, 2011
Teen Moms
UNLV working with local nonprofits and churches to lead pregnancy prevention program.
Business and Community
| January 11, 2011
Resources for Struggling Students
The UNLV Psychological Assessment and Testing Clinic provides a much-needed, low-cost service to the community by evaluating cognitive and academic skills of kindergarteners through adults.
Campus News
| December 9, 2010
Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum
Campus leaders join the discussion at the Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum, which gives teens a venue for expressing their ideas and concerns.
Business and Community
| October 15, 2010
Program for Small Fries Generates Big Smiles
At-risk kids will be attending the UNLV homecoming game thanks to the Adopt-A-School program, which rewards elementary school children for excelling in the classroom.
Research
| June 18, 2010
Modern Dads
Anthropology professor Peter Gray explores the evolution of fatherhood in new book.
People
| March 18, 2010
OPEN Project Takes on Obesity in Nevada
UNLV researchers examine the places and spaces that encourage Nevadans to get physical.
Research
| February 3, 2010
Biased Babies
The UNLV Baby and Child Rebel Lab researches why babies stereotype and how stereotyping can be curbed before children reach adulthood.
Research
| November 30, 2009
Autism and Technology
Research explores the natural attraction that kids with autism have for computers.
Business and Community
| July 22, 2009
Going to Court With Confidence
The Kids’ Court School at the Boyd School of Law helps reduce a child’s angst and fear of the court system by teaching them about the judicial process. More than 300 children have already participated.