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New partnership to provide affordable housing by August 1

Rendering of Reno City Center

Reno City Center applications close April 30

To address the rising cost of housing in Reno, the University has partnered with a local developer to provide 85 newly-remodeled studio apartments at affordable rates exclusively for graduate students, postdocs, and professional staff.

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Our office is located in Fitzgerald Student Services Building (FSB) 225 and is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding state holidays.
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News

Institute for Neuroscience Research Retreat check-in table at Granlibakken Resort

Institute for Neuroscience hosts successful research retreat

Graduate students and faculty present research and discuss future plans at Granlibakken Resort in Lake Tahoe

Raggio Building with Best Grad School U.S. News and World Report Education 2023-24

College of Education and Human Development’s graduate programs are among the nation’s best

College receives high ratings in the U.S. News and World Report

Feeding Mountain Chickadees at Chickadee Ridge is okay, research says

Chickadee Cognition Lab showed supplemental feeding of the wild birds had no negative impacts when proper food is used

Announcements

Kristen Clements-Nolle, Ph.D., MPH named 2023 Academic Advisor Awardee (Graduate)

The University’s recipient of the Academic Advisor Award (Graduate) is Dr. Kristen Clements-Nolle, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Public Health. The award includes $1,000 and you are recognized at the annual Honor the Best Ceremony in May. As the University recipient you are automatically selected as the UNR nominee for the Regents’ Academic Advisor Award (Graduate). Notification of the Regent’s Award will happen in the spring. Congratulations!

Congrats, Three-Minute Thesis winners!

The 2022 winners in the Dissertation, Thesis and Patricia Berninsone People’s Choice have been announced!

Three Minute Thesis winners

Seven NSF fellowship awards for Ph.D. students

University students received seven 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards. Congratulations to all award recipients!