In The News: Office of the President
51ԹϺ President Keith Whitfield — as well as Desert Research Institute President Kumud Acharya and College of Southern Nevada Acting President William Kibler — joined Pollard answering questions from a small audience about the potential effects of Trump’s tenure on higher education.
It’s home to a symphony orchestra, choral ensembles, ever-changing exhibitions, virtual galleries, and museums. It’s the base of operations for the Jazz Outreach Initiative, a concert hall, and a haven for theater students. Its halls and classrooms honor art’s history while fostering future masterpieces. The College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas powers the pulse of Sin City…and it continues to grow.
It’s home to a symphony orchestra, choral ensembles, ever-changing exhibitions, virtual galleries, and museums. It’s the base of operations for the Jazz Outreach Initiative, a concert hall, and a haven for theater students. Its halls and classrooms honor art’s history while fostering future masterpieces. The College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas powers the pulse of Sin City…and it continues to grow.
It’s home to a symphony orchestra, choral ensembles, ever-changing exhibitions, virtual galleries, and museums. It’s the base of operations for the Jazz Outreach Initiative, a concert hall, and a haven for theater students. Its halls and classrooms honor art’s history while fostering future masterpieces. The College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas powers the pulse of Sin City…and it continues to grow.
A student rushes across the 51ԹϺ campus just before lunch with a mail-in ballot in hand, darting past the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and into the polling site at Lied Library.
51ԹϺ joins state, local leaders at Intermountain Health event to commemorate planning of first dedicated children’s hospital in Southern Nevada. Intermountain Health unveiled the location for its future stand-alone children’s hospital in Southern Nevada on Tuesday afternoon.
As children of various ages in uniform walked past Tuesday’s outdoor ceremony on their way home from classes at Amplus Academy, 51ԹϺ President Keith Whitfield gestured to them while recalling the community’s support for the 51ԹϺ Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine and lauding the contributions of existing hospitals such as University Medical Center.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas and tech startup Boxabl are collaborating to gauge interest in the company’s prefabricated, mass-produced houses. In response to rising housing costs, 51ԹϺ president Keith Whitfield is exploring the idea of $60,000 studio homes as a possible solution for students.
51ԹϺ announced that longtime philanthropist Joyce Mack has passed away. According to reports, Mack died on Oct. 11, 2024, at age 99.
51ԹϺ announced on Wednesday the passing of Joyce Mack, a decades-long philanthropist and university pioneer in Las Vegas. She died on October 11, 2024, at the age of 99.
When Joyce Mack arrived in Las Vegas in 1947, the city was a small frontier town with a population under 25,000. “My mother was a visionary. She looked at the desert and saw a city on a hill. She knew that it was going to be something special,” her daughter, Karen Mack Goldsmith, told the Las Vegas Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday evening.
Joyce Mack arrived in Las Vegas in 1947 after meeting her future husband, Jerry, at UCLA. She was 22 years old, the city had fewer than 25,000 people and the Strip’s first resort had opened only a few years earlier.