News: Department of History

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Eight UNLV Students Honored With 2020 Lance and Elena Calvert Awards For Undergraduate Research across a wide spectrum of research topics.

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From UNLV Magazine's spring 2020 issue.

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A collection of news stories highlighting UNLV’s response to COVID-19 and faculty experts who have helped the community make sense of the pandemic and its impact to daily life.

Representatives from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians wrap UNLV Marta Meana in a blanket as part of the tribe's gift announcement to the university.
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A collection of news stories from February highlighting the people and research of UNLV.

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A collection of news stories capturing the excitement and accomplishments of UNLV at the start of a new decade.

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The marker, one of five to be installed in Nevada, will be unveiled March 5 in Las Vegas' Centennial Park.

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UNLV history professor Elizabeth Nelson separates facts about the effects of marketing, consumerism, and social media on the holiday's evolution from fiction about love's golden age.

UNLV professor Matthew Lachniet works in his lab on campus.
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A collection of stories highlighting UNLV faculty and students who made the news in 2019.

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Jean Munson of the Women's Research Institute of Nevada credits professor Joanne Goodwin, the institute's director emerita, as having been an important mentor.

A group of four U.N.L.V. nursing students work on a manikin at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.
Campus News |

A collection of news stories capturing the excitement of UNLV’s campus in June, July and August.

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Business and Community |

"The Sagebrush State" is an essential tome to appreciating the history, and vagaries, of governance in the state.

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Research |

A new book details how colonial control impacted a continent’s relationship to its wildlife.