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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Special Collections workshop helps families collect oral histories, memorabilia, and records to pass down through the generations.
Students can gain a deeper understanding of complex subjects through storytelling-driven technology, says Aundrea Frahm, director of immersive learning.
As the head of access services for University Libraries, the former research chemist helps faculty and students find the best resources for achieving academic success.
Three 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students present what they learned digitizing photos of the Black experience in 1960s Las Vegas.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not yet released data from last month on its increased enforcement operation in the Las Vegas Valley, but a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Immigration Clinic attorney doesn’t believe it was as successful as the agency thought it would be.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not yet released data from last month on its increased enforcement operation in the Las Vegas Valley, but a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Immigration Clinic attorney doesn’t believe it was as successful as the agency thought it would be.
Las Vegas has always been the epitome of glitz and excess, but there was a time when it became the birthplace of the greatest entertainment shows inspired by the famous dancers of the Folies Bergère in Paris.
A group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ) students have painstakingly preserved a photographer’s archive by digitizing it and making it available online to anyone. Six students worked on the project over the course of two to preserve the work of Clinton Wright, a press photographer who documented Black life in the Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas in the 1960s.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students are hard at work preserving the images and records of Las Vegas photographer Clinton Wright, whose decades of work shed light into African American life and experience in the 1960s and beyond.
Prominent Black leaders like Woodrow Wilson (not the U.S. president) had to fight tooth and nail to have access to the legislative process. Wilson was Nevada’s first Black legislator who moved to Las Vegas in 1966, at the height of segregation, according to an oral history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
