Archive for February, 2011
The University’s featured events for Saturday, Feb. 26 – Sunday, March 6
RENO, Nev. – The University’s featured events for Saturday, Feb. 26 – Sunday, March 6... more
University of Nevada, Reno music professor honored
RENO, Nev. – University of Nevada, Reno Department of Music Chair Andrea Lenz will receive the Governor’s Art Award for Excellence in the Arts on March 2.... more
University’s student leadership plans “Dance Collaboration” on campus
Reno, Nev. – The Associated Students of the University of Nevada’s Department of Programming will host a dance competition, “Dance Collaboration,” next month to fill the recent demand in the Reno area for coordinated dancing and competitive step shows.... more
University of Nevada, Reno megafish researcher featured in Nat Geo Magazine
RENO, Nev. – Zeb Hogan swims with the fishes and lives to write about it. In the March 2011 issue of National Geographic, the University of Nevada, Reno researcher and assistant professor is pictured swimming with a man-eating catfish and describes swimming underwater with a 400-pound Mekong giant catfish in one of his many adventures in the rivers of a dozen countries around the world.... more
RENO, Nev. – Nearly 40 years ago, in 1972, the passage of Title IX mandated a push for greater equity between men’s and women’s athletics programs at universities nationwide. While the results were not immediate, and some methods met with resistance, change began to sweep through campuses, including the University of Nevada, Reno. This tumultuous process, with its struggles and successes, is captured in a new book from the University of Nevada Oral History Program, We Were All Athletes: Women’s Athletics and Title IX at the University of Nevada. ... more
RENO, Nev. – A new, rapid blood test that could lead to early diagnosis and potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people stricken with fungal meningitis, a leading cause of AIDS-related deaths in developing countries, is getting closer to market with a recent collaboration between the University of Nevada, Reno and Immuno-Mycologics (IMMY) in Oklahoma.... more
University names Vice President Health Sciences and Medical School Dean
RENO, Nev. – Thomas L. Schwenk has been named vice president of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Division of Health… more
Fifteen Nevada students named to nation’s Universities and Colleges Who’s Who list
RENO, Nev. – The 2011 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges will include the names of 15 students from the University of Nevada, Reno, who have been selected as national outstanding campus leaders.... more
RENO, Nev. – University of Nevada, Reno’s Corné Kreemer received the 2010 Geodesy Section Award from the American Geophysical Union for his work on modeling how the Earth’s crust changes and moves.... more
University celebrates Black History Month
RENO, Nev. – More than a dozen events hosted by at least five different African-American student organizations – the Black Culture Cooperative – celebrate Black History Month at the University of Nevada, Reno this February.... more
