The University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine Press Clippings and Publicity Collection is comprised primarily of newspaper clippings and magazine articles from 2013 to 2015 covering the development of a medical school at UNLV. The collection materials include op-eds on UNLV's School of Medicine and articles discussing funding, development, and administration for the school. This collection also includes a copy of the
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine Press Clippings and Publicity Collection is comprised primarily of newspaper clippings and magazine articles from 2013 to 2015 covering the development of a medical school at UNLV. The collection materials include op-eds on UNLV's School of Medicine and articles discussing funding, development, and administration for the school. This collection also includes a copy of the
Collection is open for research.
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Materials remain as they were received.
The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) first recommended exploring the possibility of developing a medical school at UNLV in 2013. By November 2013 the NSHE Board of Regents approved a plan for public medical education in Nevada which included the development of a four-year allopathic medical school at UNLV. Barbara Atkinson, MD was hired in 2014 as the planning dean for the UNLV School of Medicine and the school was officially established on August 22, 2014. Property was acquired to build the school and faculty and staff hired between 2014 and 2015. The UNLV School of Medicine admitted its charter class of sixty students in July, 2017.
Source:
"About UNLV School of Medicine." UNLV School of Medicine. Accessed January 26, 2018. https://www.unlv.edu/medicine/about-main
University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine Press Clippings and Publicity Collection, 2011, 2013-2015. UA-00066. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1dc8n
Materials were donated in 2017 and in 2026 by Mark Doubrava; accession numbers 2017-025 and 2026-086.
The collection was minimally processed in 2018 at the time of accessioning by Tammi Kim. The materials were quickly reviewed to provide a general description of the contents of each box and an estimate of dates represented in the material. Materials were reboxed and a finding aid was created. In 2026, Tammi Kim processed the 2026-086 addition including transfering one digital file off of an optical disc, converting the file from WMA to MP3, and updating the finding aid.