Posted by glick on 20 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Misc., Our Community, Students, University
This week, we received excellent news: The University of Nevada’s Graduation Success Rate for student-athletes is at an all-time high for the second year in a row, according to the most recent data released by the NCAA. Continue Reading »
Posted by glick on 18 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I finish my two-part conversation with Beryl Love, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Posted by glick on 12 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I begin a two-part conversation with Beryl Love, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette Journal.
Posted by glick on 04 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
I chat with Dr. Walter Broecker, Professor of Geology at Columbia University’s Lamont-Daugherty Earth Observatory.
Posted by glick on 28 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About
This week I talk with David Morrow, the new Professor of Business Journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism.
Posted by glick on 26 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Students, Town Hall Meetings, University
During our Town Hall Meeting on Oct. 7 in the Joe Crowley Student Union, Provost Marc Johnson and I spoke about the University’s strategic plan. One of the themes of the plan concerns a renewed focus on entrepreneurship, across-discipline partnership and innovation. We realize that once the state recovers from double-digit unemployment and a recession that has hit all sectors of our economy with unprecedented force, things will never quite be the same again. As I noted in my remarks on Oct. 7, we can no longer count on the state to create the type of university that we wish to be. This task is up to us. More than ever before, if we are to realize our full potential as an institution, we must increasingly rely on the creation of new partnerships, both public and private, and we must determine the best ways to innovate and foster a more entrepreneurial culture on our campus. Continue Reading »
Posted by glick on 21 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About, Uncategorized
I talk with Dr. Mary Anderson, Washoe County District Health Officer.
Posted by glick on 09 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Misc., Our Community, Out and About, University
Yesterday it was announced that a recently identified retrovirus has been linked to a debilitating neuro-immune disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which affects more than one million people in the United States. The retroviral link was discovered by scientists from the Whittemore Peterson Institute, which is based on our main Reno campus, and their collaborators from the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic. The team recently published its groundbreaking findings in the journal, Science, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. In addition, this breakthrough is receiving significant and well deserved national media coverage. Continue Reading »
Posted by glick on 08 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Our Community, Out and About
On Sunday, Oct. 4, I had the pleasure of delivering a keynote address for the International Economic Development Council’s 2009 annual conference, which was held at the Silver Legacy in Reno. As much as I enjoyed delivering my remarks, I truly enjoyed listening to what many of the attendees – about 900 in all – had to say about their communities and why they felt higher education was a must for their future. These individuals believe that economic development and higher education cannot be mutually exclusive terms, particularly at a time when the world and the nation are slowly moving from the wreckage of a deep recession. If history has taught us anything, higher education can provide the means for a community, a region or a country to reinvent, re-tool or re-think its prime industries and economy. Talented human capital in the form of a college-educated community population can provide the impetus for writing of a new chapter in the success of a community’s economic viability, and, ultimately, its economic vitality. If you are interested in reading my remarks for Sunday’s keynote, they are attached below.
Posted by glick on 08 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Communications, Misc., Our Community, Out and About, Town Hall Meetings
Read a recap of the Town Hall Meeting on October 7, 2009.
http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5206&zoneid=14