Tasha Schwikert and Matt Sheahan each recently won a lucrative $75,000 scholarship from the Las Vegas Business Academy, a nonprofit organization founded by businessman Rino Armeni to graduate students pursuing business, hotel administration and law degrees who are “tuition challenged.”
Reports of students possibly body piercing themselves with non-sterile needles at Spring Valley High School have spurred a health investigation, according a message that Principal Bob Gerye sent to parents Wednesday.
Students at Coronado High School who were tested for tuberculosis Nov. 19 were retested Tuesday after a problem with the original tests.
A Smith College senior from Southern Nevada says she feels “overwhelmed” after becoming the first Rhodes Scholar from the United States in the 143-year history of the prestigious women’s school in Northampton, Mass.
Mere minutes after two Clark County School District officials reached an agreement on Wednesday with the Nevada Commission on Ethics over violations of state law, similar complaints were lodged against two other Clark County School Board members.
Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, the principal investigator of an effort to locate the tomb of Genghis Khan, has won the Desert Research Institute’s 2014 Nevada Medal.
UNLV President Neal Smatresk was chosen as the sole finalist for the presidency at the University of North Texas under a closed and highly confidential search.
Roseman University of Health Sciences and the Nevada Cancer Institute Foundation have completed a merger that will reopen the cancer institute building in Las Vegas and could lead to the creation of a medical school at the site by 2017.
A center that will provide resources to businesses opened its doors on Wednesday at the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus.
A Boulder City teenager is the victim of alleged sex offenses committed by a school teacher in Arizona, several of them in his classroom at the Kingman Academy of Learning High School, according to police.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas President Neal Smatresk said Wednesday he would accept the position of president for the University of North Texas if his appointment is confirmed by the system’s Board of Regents next month.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics decided Wednesday to forgo its investigation and accept the proposed settlements of two Clark County School District officials suspected of spending taxpayer money to campaign on a ballot question in 2012 to increase property taxes for school improvements.
For the class of 2014, Clark High School had the highest number of National Merit semifinalists in Nevada — 14. It tied the Davidson Academy of Nevada, a Reno public school for profoundly gifted middle and high school students.
Four applicants, including a member of the Nevada State Board of Education, are vying for the open seat on the Clark County School Board.
A tenth of Coronado High School students and staff, or about 325 people, are at risk for contracting the potentially lethal disease tuberculosis because of their exposure to a confirmed case at the Henderson campus, according to a spokesperson for the Southern Nevada Health District
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