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The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada) is a university located in Reno, Nevada, USA, and is known for its programs in agricultural research, journalism, animal biotechnology, and mining-related engineering and natural sciences. The university is fast becoming known for its journalism school, which has produced several Pulitzer Prize winners, and for its program in seismology, which is one of the most technologically advanced in North America. It is the land grant institution for the state of Nevada. The university is also home to the University of Nevada School of Medicine, which was founded in 1969. The medical school specializes in family medicine.
History
The University of Nevada was originally founded in Elko, Nevada in 1874 as a small, makeshift prep school. In 1885, the state legislature voted to close the Elko institution and the fledgling institution was moved from Elko to its current home in Reno, where classes began two years later. After several decades of struggling to implement requirements of federal Morrill land-grant legislation, the university made large strides toward becoming the modern institution it is today with the opening of the Desert Research Institute in 1960 and a medical school in 1967. The University of Nevada, Reno remained the only four-year academic institution in the state of Nevada until 1965, when the current-day University of Nevada, Las Vegas attained university status as Nevada Southern University. There is now controversy over whether the university should be called UNR or Nevada. It stems from the sentiment of the Board of Regents that the university is not the sole University of Nevada in the state, and hence should always be identified by its full name, the University of Nevada, Reno. However, some claim that since it was the first university in the state, its historical name should be its official designation, as it is in many other multi-campus public university systems such as the University of Michigan. Several of the university's institutions retain the wording "University of Nevada", including the alumni association, the student government, the campus bookstore, and the athletics department (which refers to the school's teams simply as "Nevada"). Campus
Campus is located just north of downtown Reno overlooking Truckee Meadows and the downtown casinos. Modeled in the style of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia, many consider the campus to be one of the prettiest in the western United States. The university's first building, Morrill Hall (completed in 1887), still stands on the historic "quad" at the campus' southern end. Lincoln Hall (all-male dormitory) and Manzanita Hall (all-female dormitory) were both completed in 1896, making them the oldest residence halls west of the Mississippi River. Across the campus of the university exists the University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum, which was established in 1985, contains a collection of trees, shrubs, flowers, ornamentals and native flora, including over 60 genera and about 200 species of trees, many with several cultivars present. Thirty-six mature elm trees line the Quad. The campus contains a statue of John William Mackay (namesake of Nevada's Mackay School of Mines, later renamed the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering), created by Mount Rushmore designer Gutzon Borglum. Academics
Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through: Colleges
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In addition, the university maintains and sponsors several centers, institutes & facilities that help it carry forth it research and academic agendas. CentersThe Center for Research Design and Analysis (CRDA). Nevada is one of the few universities in the western hemisphere to sponsor a center dedicated to Basque studies (Including Basque language), due to the large Basque population in northern Nevada. The university and surrounding community is served by several campus libraries. Between them, over a million books and bound periodicals are in circulation in addition to government documents, audio-visual materials, and various databases. The libraries are: Noble H. Getchell (main library), DeLaMare (engineering, computer science, mining, and geology), Life and Health Sciences, Physical Sciences, W. M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center, Savitt Medical, and the Mary B. Ansari Map Library. Opening on August 11, 2008 is the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, a $75.3 million project started in September 2005, which will replace the current Getchell library. In addition, the university maintains and sponsors several centers, institutes & facilities that help it carry forth it research and academic agendas. Student governmentThe Associated Students of the University of Nevada (ASUN) represents the undergraduate population at the university. ASUN has three branches: executive, legislative and judicial. The president of ASUN, executive vice president, and vice presidents for clubs and organizations and programming constitute the executive. The Executive Council consists of the aforementioned executive officers and the speaker of the student senate. The Senate is the legislative branch ASUN. Consisting of 22 senators elected from each of the university's colleges and schools, the Senate takes action on matters on behalf of the student body. The Senate's membership is apportioned by population in each college. The College of Liberal Arts (the largest), for instance, has seven seats in the Senate while the Reynolds School of Journalism has only one. The speaker of the Senate, also a senator, chairs all Senate meetings. The Judicial Council, composed of seven justices and two alternates, hears matters related to the ASUN Constitution and other matters that require peer review, such as alleged violation of university policies. Justices serve a two-year term. Elections are held on an annual basis for executive and legislative officers. GPA and completed credit requirements determine who is eligible for office. Credit requirements are graduated; the more senior the office in ASUN, the more credits must be completed in order to be eligible for office. ASUN is duly constituted under the laws of the state of Nevada, the university's Board of Regents policies and is bound by its own Constitution. Athletics
Though often known as UNR within the state, the university prefers to be called simply Nevada for athletics purposes; its sports teams are nicknamed the Wolf Pack (always two words). They participate in the NCAA's Division I (FBS for football) and in the Western Athletic Conference. Men's basketball
In March 2004, the Wolf Pack men's basketball team qualified for the NCAA tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in school history. The team earned a repeat trip in 2005 and beat Texas in the first round before falling to eventual national runner-up Illinois. The team returned for 2006 as a #5 seed but was upset in the first round by former Big Sky Conference rival Montana. They began the 2006-07 season ranked #24. The Pack's major star during this recent period of success was Nick Fazekas. In 2007, Nevada was ranked #9 in men's basketball, which is the highest ranking that Nevada has ever held. Guards Ramon Sessions and Marcellus Kemp both flirted with leaving as juniors for the NBA draft, however Kemp decided to remain at Nevada. Football
The football team plays at Mackay Stadium, The modern Mackay Stadium was completed in 1965 with a seating capacity of 7,500. The facility has been expanded several times in the last 15 years and now seats 29,993. Other notable sports
Other notable successes have come in rifle shooting, baseball, soccer, women's softball, and swimming and diving. RivalriesAnnually, Nevada's football team plays its primary rival, UNLV, for the Fremont Cannon in the Battle for Nevada. Nevada is currently enjoying a 19-15 lead in the series, after beating UNLV in 2008, 49-27, in Las Vegas. Nevada's two out-of-state rivals, particularly in football, are Boise State and Fresno State. MascotThe Wolf Pack's mascot is an anthropomorphized wolf named Alphie, who took over the duties of cheering from his uncle, Wolfie, in 1999. In 2007, Alphie was joined by his younger brother, Wolfie Jr. Conference affiliationsNevada has been a member of the WAC since 2000. Previous conference memberships include:
1954-1968 - Northern California Athletic Conference [1] Student MediaNevada's editorially independent, weekly student newspaper, The Nevada Sagebrush, has been in continuous publication since 1893, making it one of the oldest newspapers still in publication in the state of Nevada. It comes out every Tuesday morning, and employs more than 40 people, 25 full-time. Prior to 2004, the newspaper called itself simply the Sagebrush. The newspaper took home a Pacemaker in 2008 at the Associated Collegiate Press conference in Kansas City. It was also a finalist for a Pacemaker at the 2006 and 2007 ACP student journalism awards. It has won the best of show award at the fall 2005, 2006 and 2007 ACP national conferences in its category (weekly broadsheet at a four-year university). It was also nominated for an online ACP Pacemaker in 2008. It's new Web site, [www.nevadasagebrush.com], which launched in the fall of 2007, has also been recognized by the Center for Innovation in College Media for it breaking news packages, podcasts, videos and general innovation and Web presence. Many of The Nevada Sagebrush's former editors go on to work and take internships at newspapers and news organizations such as The Washington Post, The Oregonian, USA Today, The Miami Herald, The Arizona Republic and the Associated Press as well as dozens of local newspapers around the country. While the newspaper is not independent of the student government at UNR, 2008 marks the first year The Nevada Sagebrush has controlled the way its next editor is selected. The student senate's publications board, or some form of that body, has chosen the editor since 1910, but that process has now been internalized. The Nevada Sagebrush also relocated to a new office in 2008 in the Joe Crowley Student Union, which was completed in 2007. It's office is on the third floor in room 329. There is also the student radio station WolfPackRadio that also broadcasts at the radio frequency of 1700AM within a 2 two mile (3 km) radius of the University. The station features student Dj's, shows and programs and artists from campus and independent sources usually within the Reno/Tahoe region. Formerly Nevada's yearbook, The Artemisia, now called Insight Magazine, has evolved into the second major publication circulating UNR, presenting itself as a bi-monthly documentary photography magazine in contrast to the weekly, newspaper-style of The Sagebrush. It is put out both in print and online, the online version providing both support for the published stories and independent content. Nevada's literary arts journal Brushfire was created by a group of students in 1950. It is released once a semester and publishes original poetry, literature and art by students and some faculty and community members. It is the oldest literary arts publication in the state. In the spring of 2008, some students at the Reynolds School of Journalism have also begun work on a project known as Pack TV, although the status of that project is unknown. There are other independent student publications on campus (although they have stopped publishing regularly since 2006) including The Nevada Blue and the Pack Patriot. Greek LifeInterfraternity Council
Panhellenic Council
Multicultural Greek Council
Secret Societies
Former Fraternities & Sororities
Notable alumni & facultyFilm historyThe University of Nevada's classically-styled campus has served as the setting for many movies, including:
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