In The News: College of Liberal Arts
J?ean Munson has had to make a lot of hard decisions in her life, like moving to Las Vegas from Guam in her late teens for college and becoming the first Asian-American woman to open a comic-book publishing company in Nevada.
Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty for a man accused of stabbing and killing another on an RTC bus in February.
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare's book The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity.
Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist¡¯s office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.
Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist¡¯s office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.
Taiwan¡¯s military is ramping up preparations for a possible future war with China by planning an unprecedented military drill that will take place at a civilian airport in July this year, the island¡¯s official Central News Agency (CNA) declared in a statement.
It¡¯s probably no coincidence that former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou landed in Shanghai just a day before his successor, Tsai Ing-wen, took off for a two-night visit to New York on Tuesday.
Holocaust survivors and their descendants shared their personal experiences at a special Passover Seder at UNLV Wednesday to honor and remember the lives of the roughly six million Jews that were lost.
Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries joined us to talk about two important women in particular - Hattie Canty and Ruby Duncan, and the contributions they've made to U.S. history.
Taiwanese internet users appear more interested in Taiwan's NT$6,000 tax rebate and saga of an escaped baboon, than former President Ma Ying-jeou's (ñRÓ¢¾Å) trip to China, based on Google Trends.
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 UNLV¡¯s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine to Allegiant Stadium ¡ª two projects on which Lang consulted. UNLV, 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.
The Runnin' Rebels were the best in the west in the late 1980s, but after their historic championship win in 1990, the tables were turned.