SDSJ Virtual Open House: Cultural Resource Guide Edition
Jan. 25, 2021 (All day)
SDSJ will be reintroducing the cultural resource guides accompanied with 30 seconds videos from Program Coordinators highligthing specific resources.
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Research Data Series: What is Research Data Management?
Jan. 25, 2021, 11:30am
In this overview workshop, learn about the basics of managing your research data and why it's so important to do so. We'll cover recommended practices, what not to do, and provide some tools and resources for your current and future research. This virtual workshop series is sponsored by the UNLV Libraries and is open to students, faculty, alumni, and community members.
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Intersecting Connections: Where Do We Place Our Hope?
Jan. 26, 2021, 12:00pm
Finding it difficult to focus? Unsure how to live when the future is so uncertain with no solution in sight? Trying to endure the social unrest, political fallout and the COVID-19 pandemic all at the same time? Join the Intersecting Connections' Team to hear from UNLV faculty, staff, and students on what strategies they are using to help their mental and emotional well-being during these unstable times. This session will be moderated by Dr. Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola, Professor of English Language Learning. Intersecting Connections (IC) is a developing and innovative programming initiative created to address various issues that minority students may face at UNLV. To help address some of these concerns and help fill the gap the IC Team includes: Behavioral Health Services for Student Wellness, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Housing & Residential Life, The Intersection: Academic Multicultural Resource Center and Student Diversity & Social Justice (SDSJ). Visit the IC Blog for more information and updates.
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Texas Hospitality Alumni Meet Up
Jan. 27, 2021, 12:00pm
Calling Texas Hospitality Rebels! Let's begin the new year with some much needed connection. Are you a fellow UNLV Hospitality College alumni? Would you like the opportunity to connect and grow your UNLV roots in Texas? If so, please join local Hospitality Rebels for a virtual meet and greet on Wednesday, January 27 at 12 p.m. (CST) where we'll discuss how we can support each other and grow UNLV's reach in Texas in 2021 and explore UNLV Handshake, one of the leading online employment portals on the web for both employers and career seekers.
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Virtual Lab Notes
Jan. 27, 2021, 12:00pm
"Understanding Bacterial Communities and Their Effect on Humans" with Dr. Boo Shan Tseng Assistant Professor, UNLV College of Sciences School of Life Sciences Many of the bacteria we come into contact with on a day-to-day basis resides in bacterial communities called biofilms. These bacterial communities play a significant role in our ecosystem and impact humans in industrial production, agriculture, and medicine in both beneficial and detrimental ways. Dr. Boo Shan Tseng, a microbiologist at the UNLV School of Life Sciences who studies biofilms, will share with us why understanding biofilms is an important part of understanding the larger world we live in.
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Rebel Nurse Mentoring Program Spring Orientation
Jan. 27, 2021, 5:30pm
Join UNLV School of Nursing for a meet and greet into the UNLV Rebel Nurse Mentoring Program. This event will serve as an introduction to the program and a look ahead to the times throughout the year for upcoming alumni panels to help our students.
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A Rebel Roundtable - Goals Coaching
Jan. 29, 2021, 12:00pm
U.S. Bank and UNLV Career Services have joined forces! We are proud to be the first university in the country to launch Goals Coaching powered by U.S. Bank. A free, personalized coaching experience to prepare you for success beyond your career. We invite you to join our inaugural event where you will get a chance to meet the coaches, hear about their passion for coaching, how it will benefit you and ask them questions. Questions including: What is goals coaching? Why is it free? Is it relevant to all ages of students and alumni? How does the coaching experience actually work? Who are goals coaches and how can they help me? We look forward to seeing you online!
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Innovation and Tech Commercialization Webinar
Jan. 29, 2021, 3:00pm
Join Dr. Robert Rippee, Executive Director of UNLV's Black Fire Innovation Hub as he kicks off our Spring 2021 Engineering Webinar Series and discusses the path from idea to startup for a typical student project. UNLV's Black Fire Innovation Hub is a new program for concept development, incubation and acceleration of startup companies and concepts, specifically focused on UNLV students, faculty and staff. Dr. Rippee will also introduce a new seminar series offered to ENGR students this Spring on Tech Commercialization.
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Adobe Creative Cloud & Apps Best Practices
Feb. 2, 2021, 2:30pm
This one-hour workshop will provide training, best practices, and examples for how to utilize Adobe Creative Cloud and the free downloadable apps to help develop ideas in the creative/information gathering process. Special emphasis is provided for College of Fine Arts students. Attendees will be able to: Understand the purpose of each app. Generate design elements to incorporate into their creative process. Understand best practices for saving and transfer design elements from the apps to desired Adobe Applications, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
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Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas
Feb. 2, 2021, 3:00pm
This William R. Eadington Fellow colloquium will highlight the influence and history of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas from their settlement at the old Mormon Fort in 1855 until the erection of their temple in 1989. Guest Speaker: Fred Woods, Ph.D., Professor, Brigham Young University The William R. Eadington Fellowship program is sponsored by the UNLV Center for Gaming Research in the University Libraries Special Collections and Archives and funds scholarly research into our collections on gaming and Las Vegas.
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