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Paddling Concrete Canoes

Apr 10, 2012
Engineering students from UNR have built a concrete canoe and have won the regional competition in Berkeley, California. This is their seventh straight year winning the regionals.
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Johnson Makoba on Developing his Homeland of Uganda

Jan 12, 2012
Johnson Makoba's parents grew coffee, which helped them send their kids to school.  Makoba says it opened his eyes to how poor families could propel forward with the help of crops and funding.
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The Shakespeare Thefts

Dec 12, 2011
Professor Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, Reno has spent more than a decade with an international team of researchers to track down all the copies of The First Folio - the original complete works of Shakespeare published in London in 1623. It's part scholarship, part cloak and dagger as wealthy collectors are less than scrupulous about the origins of their books.
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Waddie Mitchell, Cowboy Poet

Nov 16, 2011

Waddie Mitchell didn't start out wanting to be a cowboy poet.  Storytelling was just a part of life on the ranch - every cowboy writes poetry, he says.

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Transnationalism: How Moving Across Borders Affects Families

Sep 27, 2011
What happens when you cross borders and live between two different worlds?  That's what UNR professor Debbie Boehm explores in her work.  She's researched how the migration and deportation of Mexicans has affected their families and their communities in Mexico and America.  So how does continually crossing borders affect one's family, and one's sense of identity?  How does transnationalism in Nevada affect a person's psyche?  We talk with Debbie Boehm, a reporter who traveled with Guatemalan deportees, a law professor who studied kids whose parents were deported, and a woman fighting to keep her father from being deported.
 
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Does Coffee Hurt Fertility

Aug 04, 2011
Does drinking coffee hurt your chances of getting pregnant?  A recent study claims that high caffeine consumption inhibits a woman's fertility by slowing her egg movement.  We talk to the University of Nevada School of Medicine researcher who conducted the study about his findings, and what this means for women.
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Migraine Surgery with Dr. Kayvan Khiabani

Jun 29, 2011

Around 30 million Americans get migraine headaches.  And some migraines are really bad  to the point of nausea or throwing up.  For some people, migraines can last up to 48 hours and keep them from going into work, much less leaving the house.  Recently, doctors have found a new surgery that been showing an over 80% success rate  and it's being done by plastic surgeons.  The surgeon makes incisions on nerve trigger points around the head, which relieves pressure.  We talk to the only surgeon in Nevada doing this procedure about the pros and cons.

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Zeb Hogan's Monster Fish

Jun 28, 2011

Fishermen tell tall tales all the time.  But when Zeb Hogan says he's caught an 8-foot long fish that takes 5 men to lift, he isn't lying. Actually, that is Zeb's job: tracking down the world's biggest endangered monsters from the farthest corners of the earth. National Geographic just named him one of its 15 fellows worldwide. The Reno professor and star of TV's "Monster Fish" shares his stories of catching freshwater giants, and what it takes to keep these "monsters" from going extinct.

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Ah-choo! Allergies in Las Vegas

Jun 03, 2011
It's spring in Las Vegas, which means blue skies, flowers and - ah-choo! - allergies. The city recently ranked as second worst in metro areas for ragweed allergies.
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Biking 545 Miles for AIDS Awareness

May 27, 2011
In the 1980s, Dove Zugarramurdi had a number of gay friends who died of AIDS.  She remembers being the only friend at their bedside - often, their families refused to visit.
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Being the First to Go to College

May 16, 2011

First-generation students are the first in their family to go to college.  But they have a 45% dropout rate - often because they are juggling jobs, and family and cultural pressures.  A UNR graduate who works with first-generation students decided to turn their stories into a documentary.  We talk to him, as well as first-generation students.  Were you the first in your family to go to college?  Did you stick with it, or drop out?  What challenges did you face, that students who came from a college-educated family didn't have to deal with.

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UNR and UMC

Apr 20, 2011
As the Clark County Commission struggles with how to turn around the fiscally struggling UMC, one idea that's come up is making the hospital a world class teaching institute. To do that, the commission wants a greater commitment from the state's medical school, which is located at the University of Nevada, Reno. But, recent talks between the school and county commissioners has resulted in some heated debate and commissioners aren't convinced UNR is totally committed to helping UMC improve. We'll talk with a Clark County Commissioner and the former chancellor of higher education about the relationship between UMC and UNR.
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UNLV Faculty on Budget Cuts

Mar 03, 2011
The outlook for Nevada's System of Higher Education is grim. NSHE Chancellor, Dan Klaich says the cuts could result in the closing of many UNLV campuses and consolidating some schools into others. At UNLV, Pres. Neal Smatresk says exigency, a move much like bankruptcy, is likely to happen and that mean everyone and everything will be on the table for cuts. We talk with UNLV professors about their thoughts on impending budget cuts.
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Earthquake in Vegas?

Oct 26, 2010
Every century Nevada experiences a magnitude seven earthquake or higher. What are the odds one of those hits Las Vegas? According the USGS the odds that happens within the next 50 years is barely half a percent.
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Higher Education Outlook

Oct 08, 2010
Higher education chancellor, Dan Klaich says the decisions made in the upcoming legislature could impact the higher education in Nevada for the next 20 years.

So what ideas do Nevada's higher education leaders have for the looming budget crisis?

We talk with Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor, Dan Klaich and other college leaders about the future of higher education in Nevada.
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