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At UNLV, we thrive in a fast-paced environment where information is constantly exchanged. As a Carnegie R1 public research university, it is necessary to determine how this information is transformed into actionable insights to create a culture of continuous improvement and learning among faculty, staff, and students.

Idaho National Laboratory signed agreements with Boise State University to deepen collaborative research and development projects that will advance solutions to the nation’s energy and security challenges ensuring energy dominance and economic prosperity. The new Strategic Understanding for Premier Education and Research (SUPER) agreements will foster collaboration among students, faculty, and INL researchers. They establish a framework to pursue innovations in advanced materials and manufacturing, and secure, resilient energy systems to enhance energy infrastructure and safeguard critical assets.

Can you imagine a day when you turn on your faucet and no water comes out? The hypothetical question, posed by a research team at UNLV, is called a Day Zero scenario. It sounds like the plot of a doomsday apocalypse series but its not as unimaginable - or as far-fetched - as a Hollywood screenplay might seem. A few years ago in Cape Town, South Africa they almost reached this point, where they were about to tell their citizens that they simply had no more water to give them, even though we all know that water is necessary on a daily basis, said Erica Marti, an associate professor of civil and environmental

Dr. Cory A. Bennett, Professor of Mathematics Education, and Dr. Allison Roxburgh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, both in the Department of Teaching and Educational Studies, were lead writers on the publication of a new position paper for NCSM called Leading with Technology: Enhancing Mathematics for All Students.

Mercer University Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will welcome John Blake, senior writer at CNN.com, for the seventh Laurie Byington Lecture on the Contemporary South on Thursday, Jan. 23. Blake’s lecture The Power of a Hopeless Cause will examine his family’s story captured in the memoir More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew. The events in the story shaped how reporting on race and mental health has changed in the region and nation in the past 20 years. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place at 6 p.m. in the

UVA Health is focusing on a trend thats becoming more common in the field of business and higher education called the growth mindset. Its an approach to learning that teaches people that their circumstances dont define them, but it also encourages people to improve in whatever they do. It has long been promoted by psychologist and Stanford University Professor Carol Dweck. More recently, Dr. Milad Memari and his team of researchers at UVAs School of Medicine have published a paper on the many ways people can unleash the growth mindsets potential.

In a career that spans six decades and over 100 films, UCLA alumnus David Lebrun has crafted a multidisciplinary film practice encompassing animation, documentary and experimental techniques to explore different ways of seeing and being in the world. A founding member of the multimedia light show collective Single Wing Turquoise Bird, Lebrun helped create the visual language of the psychedelic era while leaning on his background in philosophy and anthropology to understand and visualize how other cultures, ancient and modern, have used available technologies to represent their own aesthetic and

Fifteen University of Minnesota Crookston faculty and staff members joined a Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) cohort during the fall of 2024 as part of a year-long program designed to encourage the investigation of student learning experiences, to collect data on learning outcomes, and publish results. The cohort meets monthly under the leadership of Jeff Lindgren, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for Educational Innovation for the University of Minnesota.