UNLV is a doctoral-degree- granting institution of approximately 29,000 students and more than 3,000 faculty and staff that is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a research university with high research activity. UNLV offers a broad range of respected academic programs and is on a path to join the top tier of national public research universities. The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, educating the region’s diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the launch of a new School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. Learn more at UNLV.edu.
La inteligencia emocional es una competencia cognitiva que puede cambiar a lo largo de la vida. Así que si cree que no tiene ninguna de estas cuatro capacidades todavía está a tiempo de desarrollar esta cualidad.
President Donald Trump arriving at the Rose Garden, May 22, 2019, in Washington.
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Politics have pervaded the debate about whether Congress should impeach President Trump. One legal scholar says that whether to impeach – or not – should not be viewed as a political question.
It’s almost impossible for users to detect which information is being collected, who’s collecting it and what they do with it.
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How did we become so submissive to a condition of constant surveillance that – except in spy movies or paranoid delusions – would have been considered preposterous a few decades ago?
Pages from Robert Mueller’s final report on the special counsel investigation into Donald Trump, which show heavy redaction by the Department of Justice.
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Mueller’s report describes more than a dozen times Trump may have broken the law. Here’s how Congress will decide whether the president obstructed justice during federal probes into his presidency.
On a cold December night, the symbol of Russia’s imperial prowess went up in flames.
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After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to restore it to its former glory.
Special counsel Robert Mueller reached no definitive conclusion about whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in firing FBI Director James Comey or attacking his own investigation.
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Legally, a person can obstruct justice even if he committed no other crime – though it is harder to prove. It all depends on the intent behind pressuring investigators, say, or firing an FBI director.
Teachers, students and supporters rally in front of City Hall in Oakland, Calif., in February.
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Teachers’ unions often claim they are striking for better schools on behalf of students. A closer look at recent strikes suggests they are fighting for something else: membership.
Undocumented students took advantage of tuition benefits they called for through the 2013 California DREAM Act.
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When researchers took a close look at transcripts for thousands of California community college students, they discovered an encouraging trend in enrollment for undocumented students.
Evacuees arrive at the UNLV Thomas & Mack Center after a gunman opened fire Oct. 1, 2017 in Las Vegas.
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One year after the Oct. 1 shooting massacre in Las Vegas, a team of scholars from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers insights into how to best help those affected by the violence.
A gaming industry expert explains how casinos’ ability to hide the price of a slot spin ensures a reliable stream of revenue from even the savviest of gamblers.
Serena Williams – wearing her controversial catsuit – returns a shot during the first round of the French Open in May 2018.
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Prisoners in 17 states are striking to call attention to harsh conditions and low pay for their labor, something that may run afoul of the 13th Amendment and other legal commitments.
A group of basketball players talking and appearing to have fun. A recent study showed that college athletes benefited from special counseling designed for them.
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Student athletes may sometimes be put on a pedestal, but they experience problems just like any student. They sometimes may be harder to reach, however. A novel program suggests a winning approach.
Top 10 percent policies could help universities such as Harvard achieve diversity.
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In tandem with affirmative action, policies that guarantee college admission to students in the top 10 percent of their class could be a viable way to achieve diversity, a law professor argues.
In an epileptic brain, the neurons fire wildly.
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During epileptic seizures, neurons in the brain fire without rhyme or reason. New research identifies a possible way to wrest back control by stopping these signals before they can get started.
Through the 2018 WNBA All-Star game on July 28, viewership was up 38 percent compared to the same point last year.
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Like the WNBA, the NBA went through fits and starts in its early years. Yet despite drawing similar crowds in the 1960s, NBA players earned far bigger paychecks than today’s WNBA stars receive.
Large proportions of regular internet gamblers use offshore sites.
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For online gamblers, there are many attractions to offshore sights, so governments must focus on arming consumers with better knowledge about its risk.
What happens when an entire society succumbs to childlike behavior and discourse?
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Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.
‘Earthrise,’ which appeared on the cover of the second and third Whole Earth Catalog, was taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders during lunar orbit, Dec. 24, 1968.
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The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
La vida moderna parece fomentar la aceleración por la propia aceleración, ¿con qué fin?
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