Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School student Alex Giuliani is prepping for the Las Vegas Open and Southwest Regional Benchpress, Deadlift and Pushpull Championship, set for May 6 at CrossFit Las Vegas. He hopes to surpass the raw deadlift record of 460 pounds in the 13-to-15 age division for 198 pounds or under.
UNLV anthropology professor Alyssa Crittenden recently published a study that suggests honey played a bigger part in the rise of big-brained humans than anyone previously thought.
It doesn’t take a college education to understand that sex sells. Like it or not, UNLV students are surrounded by the temptations of Sin City and its lights, lust and liquor. And if sex sells, then stripping can surely pay the bills.
Only 29 percent of the charter school’s students passed Nevada standardized tests in reading last year.
Superintendent Dwight Jones on Wednesday was told to chisel away between 200 to 1,350 Clark County School District positions when the time soon comes. The School Board unanimously adopted a tentative $2.05 billion budget based on expected cost increases and diminished revenue. Board members also gave Jones the go ahead to make any “necessary reductions in force.”
It’s official. School police’s salaries will be frozen from this school year through 2012-13, saving a cash-poor Clark County School District $872,000 in combination with other concessions.
There’s a 50-50 chance the next president of Nevada State College will already have a personal connection to Nevada.
Two Las Vegas high school teachers are participating in a summer scientific research program through the multinational Siemens Corporation.
Clara Buck and Sarah DiSalvo, both 14, recently won a trip to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is scheduled for May 13-18. The Intel ISEF is a global science competition featuring more than 1,500 high school students from 65 countries.
Cheerleaders are supposed to inspire a crowd. None do it better than these kids. The Vegas Cheer Authority Aviators, a team created specifically for those with intellectual disabilities, has 15 members, ages 5 to 18, from all over the Las Vegas Valley.
The 10 semifinalists to become the new president of Nevada State College include the current interim president, six provosts or vice presidents, two deans and a professor, according to documents sent Saturday to members of the Board of Regents.
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