Dr. Alyssa Crittenden, left, dean of the graduate college, and Dr. Brendan O’Toole, professor of mechanical engineering, place a doctoral hood on Maria Ramos Gonzalez at the UNLV graduate degree graduation ceremony at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Ramos Gonzalez earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering, the first in her family to graduate college and the first Latina to graduate from UNLV’s mechanical engineering graduate program. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae