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- Rising rents, enrollment growth have UNR students facing new kind of housing crunch
With UNR’s on-campus housing prices up almost 27 percent over the last decade and off-campus rent prices at an all-time high, students have to get creative. Some couchsurf with friends or live in their cars until they find a place but many end up sharing apartments, splitting rent with roommates. – Northern Nevada Business Weekly - Devastating fires could damage Lake Tahoe’s iconic blue waters
“I am not as worried about the clarity but the sensitive, endemic (only found in one location) species that are hanging on in the lake…The clarity may be able to rebound but will we lose these species that are already having a tough time?” said Sudeep Chandra, professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. – Sacramento News & Review - You're Not Alone in Your Darkest Hours — Ending the silence on mental health can save the lives of our peers, our patients, and ourselves
I appreciated the innovative response by Thomas Schwenk, MD, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nevada at Reno. He tasked each second-year medical student to read my article and use a word to describe how they felt about it. Then he asked them to think of words they would use to describe a culture in medical education that promoted mental health and well-being. – MedPage Today
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