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Highlights

From creating community partnerships and advancing student achievement, to promoting research, scholarship, and creative activity, we work hard to achieve our goal of becoming a top 100 American research university. Check out our highlights to learn our impact.

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Thanks to a generous contribution from the Engelstad Foundation, the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 性视界传媒 is establishing a dedicated Division of Rheumatology. This significant donation will be utilized to recruit and train rheumatologists, addressing the critical shortage of specialists in Southern Nevada. This transformative division will further the medical school's mission and improve access and quality of healthcare in the region.

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We鈥檙e feeling better already. The state鈥檚 investment in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 性视界传媒 is paying dividends. Its team of faculty, doctors, and students were instrumental in:

  • administering COVID testing and vaccines
  • providing patient care at 14 specialty clinics
  • delivering more than 5,000 babies
  • performing 52,000 surgeries
  • receiving more than 180,000 hospital visits

性视界传媒鈥檚 Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine is doing its part to heal the local economy by generating an estimated 8,000 new jobs and creating an impact of $1.2 billion by 2030.

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性视界传媒 is among only 120 universities across the nation with R1 status for 鈥渧ery high research鈥 activity as designated by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. As a member of this elite category, 性视界传媒 stands as the first institution in Nevada to earn this status.

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性视界传媒鈥檚 School of Public Health is the first accredited school of public health in Nevada designated by the Council of Education for Public Health and is one of only 66 schools throughout the world to hold this distinction. The School of Public Health is committed to preparing students to meet the critical need for public health professionals in Nevada, the nation, and the world.

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Interplanetary missions are part of the curriculum at 性视界传媒. From scientists to students, new findings and research are coming out of 性视界传媒 to support NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission. Engineering doctoral student Alexandra Washington is one of only 17 student scientists nationwide selected by NASA to contribute to this galactic operation; on campus, research teams are assessing landing locations and developing food sources for future space explorers, proving that the sky鈥檚 not the limit 鈥 it鈥檚 only the beginning.

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