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Campus News |

Join fellow Rebels on March 27 in a day of giving, celebration, and friendly competition — all for a great cause.

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Campus News |

Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

Portrait of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ alumnus Zachary Billot
People |

With resilience and resolve, award adds to Billot's legacy as one of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s most academically decorated graduates.

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Campus News |

An enduring 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ end-of-semester tradition is to highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

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Business and Community |

Brookings Mountain West and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ health care and criminal justice faculty experts partner with Washington think tank on podcast series addressing the opioid abuse epidemic.
 

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Campus News |

A monthly roundup of the top news stories featuring 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ staff and students.

Brookings Mountain West In The News

Nevada Current

Local elected officials, planning and transportation representatives along with developers gathered Thursday around a central question: how do we address Southern Nevada’s ongoing housing shortage?

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Government and private-sector leaders from across the valley met Thursday to talk about an issue that locals find particularly vexing: the lack of affordable homes.

Las Vegas Business Press

With Las Vegas expected to reach a population of 3 million by 2042, health care in an already underserved community and attracting medical professionals will become more important than ever.

Las Vegas Business Press

With Las Vegas expected to reach a population of 3 million by 2042, health care in an already underserved community and attracting medical professionals will become more important than ever.

Las Vegas Business Press

With Las Vegas expected to reach a population of 3 million by 2042, health care in an already underserved community and attracting medical professionals will become more important than ever.

Desert Companion

Statewide, there is one mental health professional for every 460 residents, and every Nevada county is federally designated as having a mental health provider shortage, according to a separate 2023 study from the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ/Brookings Mountain West. Nevada would need 235 mental health professionals to eliminate the shortage designation.

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Recent Brookings Mountain West Accomplishments

Celene Fuller (Sociology) was recently announced as the 2025-2026 Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellow. The Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Ph.D. student completing a dissertation in metropolitan public policy broadly defined with special consideration given to applicants focusing their research on the…
Isabelle Graham (Economics; Brookings Mountain West; The Lincy Institute) and Zachary Billot (Political Science ’24) will represent Nevada and California respectively at the 2025 Western Governors' Leadership Institute (WGLI) Annual Meeting. The WGLI is a prestigious program developed by the Western Governors' Association to…
David Damore, Caitlin Saladino, and William Brown (all Brookings Mountain West) recently published a commentary piece in a Brookings Institution blog titled, "A constitutional amendment to change higher education governance in Nevada." Their piece discusses the history and implications of ballot Question 1 which appears in the upcoming State of…
William Brown, Caitlin Saladino, and David Damore (all from Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) co-authored a piece titled, "County needs a stand-alone children’s hospital," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece recaps an recent community forum that detailed the health and economic benefits of a stand-alone children’s…
Annie Vong (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), Zachary Billot (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), and Nicole Dias Del Valle (Political Science; Philosophy Law & Justice; Brookings Public Policy) recently co-authored a Brookings Institution blog post titled, "Youth voices in the 2024 election: What students want to see on the…
Anirudh Polagani (The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently had their op-ed, "Still overdependent on tourism after all these years," published in the Nevada Current. The piece insites a call to action for Las Vegas to continue to invest in building a robust and diverse economy and lessen its reliance on the tourism sector.