UNLV announced Friday that Boyd Law School Dean Dan Hamilton will leave the school June 30 to focus on “pressing family matters.”
Julie Wootton-Greener
Julie joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in July 2019 as a reporter for The View, covering the southwest/Henderson area. She grew up in southern California, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. She worked as an education and health reporter at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho for eight years. Before that, she was an education and county government reporter for two years at the Elko Daily Free Press in Elko, Nev.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago, about $1.6 million in classroom project requests by Clark County teachers have been fulfilled via DonorsChoose.
Caleb Cage will leave the governor’s office June 1 and rejoin the Nevada System of Higher Education on June 10 as vice chancellor for workforce development and chief innovation officer.
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted Thursday to hire DeRionne Pollard under a four-year contract. She was among four finalists interviewed Wednesday.
Nevada’s Commission on School Funding, which has been meeting since September 2019, submitted its recommendations Friday to the governor and the Legislature.
The Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy was an emergency educational experiment in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now advocates want to keep it alive for the longer term.
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board approved an application Friday for Battle Born Academy, which will open in downtown Las Vegas.
The issue arose during the period of time that the board met virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic and took comments by email only.
UNLV’s team was among nine finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2020 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. Winners were announced Sunday.
A search committee will interview Hubert Benitez, Susan Borrego, Shari McMahan and DeRionne Pollard next week.
The endowment from the Persian Gulf nation will mainly be used for scholarships for the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Henderson university.
The money will be used to expand the College of Southern Nevada’s manufacturing program in an effort to help local employers gain a skilled workforce.
Dozens of education-related bills are moving forward in the state Legislature after successfully passing out of committees by last week’s deadline.
Students used scientific research to discover how someone with PTSD would respond to different elements inside “Mojave Bloom,” a 628-square-foot home powered by the sun.
Nevada Senior Services and the National Council on Aging are partnering to provide free benefits screenings this week for seniors ages 60 and older.