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Between 1951 and 1992, the United States conducted 928 nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site. Of those, 100 were atmospheric tests that released radioactive fallout into the air, where wind currents carried it across communities in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. The people who lived in the […]
The University of Nevada Las Vegas continues to strengthen its reputation as a cultural hub in Southern Nevada with the return of its 9th Annual Art Walk, themed ‘Rebel Gold,’ scheduled for Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. This free, public event transforms the UNLV campus into a vibrant celebration of creativity, bringing together art exhibitions, live […]
The start of a new academic year at University of Nevada Las Vegas brings more than new schedules and familiar faces. Across campus, students, faculty, and staff are returning to smoother roadways, cooler classrooms, renovated study spaces, and expanded facilities—the result of an intensive summer construction season led by Facilities Management and Planning & Construction. […]
St. Thomas Aquinas College has reached a defining moment in its academic development. The Sparkill, New York institution has been awarded a $345,639 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), one of the most competitive federal funding programs supporting scholarship in the United States. The NEH grant will fund the next phase of […]
Why Wentworth Added an Applied AI Major Now Wentworth Institute of Technology, the career-focused university of technology in Boston, has launched a Bachelor of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and the program is already attracting regional media attention. WBZ-TV recently visited campus to report on the new degree, which welcomed its first students at the […]
In a laboratory in Southern California, a team of undergraduate researchers is reshaping how the United States approaches radar communications and radio-frequency (RF) engineering. At Whittier College, Jordan Hanson, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has spent recent years designing and 3D-printing RF systems with practical applications in phased-array radar, drone detection, and […]
In a city as diverse as Las Vegas, communicating effectively across cultural lines is a practical necessity rather than an abstract ideal. The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) addresses this reality directly through Culture and Communication (COM 133), an undergraduate course offered by the Department of Communication Studies within the Greenspun College of Urban […]
Would you rearrange your career and home so your aging parents could live with you? Would you greet strangers with a warm smile on a crowded street? Your answers reveal more about your culture than you might expect. For three decades, psychologists struggled to measure what truly separates societies — until a research team led […]
Finding dependable childcare remains one of the most persistent challenges for working families across the USA, while college students often struggle to find flexible jobs that fit around demanding schedules. A startup called Sport Sitters addresses both problems at once, and a team of engineering students at Arizona State University is now playing a central […]
Friendship is one of the few experiences that touches nearly every part of a human life. It shapes how children learn to cooperate, how adults cope with stress, and how people recover from illness and setbacks. Yet for something so universal, friendship is rarely examined with the seriousness it deserves. That is changing. Researchers at […]
