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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Aug 2020

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

Interim Director Message: I want to send a positive and hopeful message to all of our community supporters: Rest assured, we are all discovering new levels of creativity and tenacity as we navigate through these times!


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 9, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Jun 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 9, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 8, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Jun 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 8, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


Status Of Women In Nevada: Higher Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson Jun 2020

Status Of Women In Nevada: Higher Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson

Research Briefs

Students may leave school due to a different educational environment, work and school adjustments without support from family and friends, a lack of financial planning and academic struggles.


Status Of Women In Nevada: Health Snapshot (Part 1), Ana Rosas, Aika Dietz, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson Jun 2020

Status Of Women In Nevada: Health Snapshot (Part 1), Ana Rosas, Aika Dietz, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson

Research Briefs

A breakthrough for women's health and racial health inequity is the passing of Public Health Service Act section 492B and National Institute of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-43) and the implementation by NIH to support full or partially funded clinical research by establishing guidelines to include sex and race of the participant in these studies.


Status Of Women In Nevada: K-12 Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Brenda Cruz Gomez, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson Jun 2020

Status Of Women In Nevada: K-12 Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Brenda Cruz Gomez, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson

Research Briefs

There has been a sudden increase in Nevada K-12 student population since 2003 ballooning student-teaching ratio and straining the educational system.


Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Jun 2020

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

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Interim Director's Message: As an institute, WRIN's activities always increase during the spring months. It is during this time that we accept our incoming NEW Leadership Class and prepare for their June training. Early this March, just as we accepted the final students for our upcoming 2020 Class, Governor Sisolak ordered severe activity restrictions in response to COVID-19.


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 7, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 7, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 6, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 6, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 5, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 5, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 4, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 4, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 3, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 3, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 2, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 2, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 1, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 1, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …


Witness: The Modern Writer As Witness, Alex Berge, Andrew Bertaina, Andrew Collard, Miranda Dennis, Andrea Eberly, Emily Greenberg, Day Heisinger-Nixon, Sarah Helen, L.A. Johnson, Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Kuryla, Emmy Newman, Lara Palmqvist, Mary Lane Potter, David Lerner Schwartz, Michelle Sharpe, Nina Sudhakar, Kristina Ten, Eric Tran, Pamela Yenser Apr 2020

Witness: The Modern Writer As Witness, Alex Berge, Andrew Bertaina, Andrew Collard, Miranda Dennis, Andrea Eberly, Emily Greenberg, Day Heisinger-Nixon, Sarah Helen, L.A. Johnson, Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Kuryla, Emmy Newman, Lara Palmqvist, Mary Lane Potter, David Lerner Schwartz, Michelle Sharpe, Nina Sudhakar, Kristina Ten, Eric Tran, Pamela Yenser

Witness Magazine

Editor's Note [Excerpt] Magic can mean many different things, especially for writers. Magic can be an illusion, a sleight of hand designed to trick onlookers into believing the impossible. Or magic can be a supernatural force in a world of harsh reality, a set of beliefs that sits just outside the realms of organized religion and advanced technology. Wizards and demons, Las Vegas entertainers and houngans --they all practice a kind of sorcery. For poets and prose writers, though, magic affords an opportunity for us to stretch the limitations of the physical world in search of new themes, settings, and …


Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Mar 2020

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

Our February rushed by as we prepped for March as Women's History Month.


Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Jan 2020

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

Interim Director Message: It has long been noted that the key to success is the adaptability to change. All of us at WRIN are becoming quite adept in adjusting to changing dynamics!