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More than 2,200 degrees to be awarded at UNR during Friday and Saturday commencements
Submitted by editor on Mon, 05/12/2014 - 1:55pmThe University of Nevada, Reno’s 2014 Spring Commencement will confer 2,251 degrees and certificates. There will be three ceremonies, one for advanced-degree recipients Friday afternoon, May 16, and two for bachelor-degree recipients on the mornings of Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17. All three ceremonies will be held on the University’s historic Quadrangle, located on the southern part of campus.
11 Countries in 11 Months
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Wed, 04/02/2014 - 7:47pmMy name is Shannon Rose Marshall. For the last four years I have been attending the University of Nevada, Reno and I will be graduating this May with a Bachelors degree in Community Health Sciences. Once I graduate, I will be embarking on an incredible journey starting in September called the World Race.
32 UNR Athletes Are Set To Graduate
Submitted by Chris Graham on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 2:18pmRENO, Nev. — Thirty-two Wolf Pack student-athletes representing 12 teams have applied for graduation at the University of Nevada this winter. Ceremonies for the 2012 Winter Commencement are set for Saturday, Dec. 8 at Lawlor Events Center.
UNR's Kay Fowler elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Submitted by editor on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 12:48amBy Claudene Wharton
Workers, students rally Monday at Western Nevada College in Carson City to remember Martin Luther King Jr.
Submitted by editor on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 11:24pm(Press Release) College campuses in Carson City and Las Vegas will host Nevada's portion of a national unity rally on Monday, April 4, the 43rd anniversary that marks the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The northern Nevada event begins at 4:30 p.m. at Rotary Plaza on the campus of Western Nevada College in Carson City.
Some Say Democrats Jobs Bill “Not A Jobs Bill”
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 10:17amRENO – When the bottom fell out of the construction industry, some lucky ones kept working.
CC Myers, a California company, has benefited from a portion of a $393 million contract to extend Interstate 580 between Reno and Carson City. They are building the 120-foot-tall bridge spanning Galena Creek.
Work there has continued apace as vehicles zooming through the valley below have increasingly carried unemployed Nevadans.
Nevada Higher Education System Announces Pro Bono Lobbying Team
Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 1:15pmBy Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Chancellor Dan Klaich has announced the formation of a new lobbying team that will represent the Nevada System of Higher Education free of charge at the 2011 legislative session.
The team will be chaired by former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan and will include Alfredo Alonso, Michael Hillerby, Rose McKinney-James, Keith Lee, John Pappageorge and The Capitol Company.
Nevada Higher Education Representatives Assess Cuts
Submitted by on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 1:27pmLast week, the Nevada Board of Regents held a meeting in what marks the beginning of nine weeks of discussion on how to further reduce their budgets to adjust for the 6.9 percent cut in funding agreed upon by Nevada Legislators during the special session in February.