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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 22, 1979

Date

1979-05-22

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes with additional resolution. nominations, and memorandums.

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Interview with Benjamin Clinton Diven, April 12, 2005

Date

2005-04-12

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Manhattan Project

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Interview with Herbert Frank York, January 16, 2004

Date

2004-01-16

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research adn Engineering

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Interview with NDE Immersion Group, January 13, 2006

Date

2006-01-13

Description

Narrator affiliation: Peace Studies, Nevada Desert Experience

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Interview with Marie Elizabeth (Stever; Daly) McMillan, March 5, 2004

Date

2004-03-05

Description

Narrator affiliation: Secretary, Administrative Assistant, Holmes and Narver; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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Interview with Erik Thompson, March 4, 2006

Date

2006-03-04

Description

Narrator affiliation: Board of Trustees, Nevada Desert Experience

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Anita Tijerina Revilla oral history interview: transcript

Date

2018-10-09

Description

Oral history interview with Anita Tijerina Revilla conducted by Marcela Rodriguez-Campo on October 09, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Revilla discusses her early life in San Antonio, Texas. She talks about her decision to make education a priority, figuring out the college application process on her own, and her initial interest in social justice. Revilla talks about how her critical consciousness was developed, and her pedagogical approach to teaching. Revilla describes her role in the 2006 May Day march, advocating advocating for the queer community, and disrupting oppressive systems to increase educational access for students. Lastly, Revilla discusses ethnic studies and the history of inequality in the United States.

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Transcript of interview with Lyn Robinson by Barbara Tabach, September 18, 2014

Date

2014-09-18

Description

One day in 2012, UNLV student Lyn Robinson spied a posting on the bulletin board for a photographer for the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center. She was an art major with a concentration on photography. She was also had a deep appreciation of the horror of the Holocaust and what the survivors she would take photos of had endured. Thus began a two year project, during which she took photos of over sixty survivors. Her images are preserved at UNLV Special Collections & Archives. Prints are displayed at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center. On September 18, 2014, Lyn shared her work for this oral history recording. She is a native of Florida, daughter of a horticulturist father and pianist mother.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 24, 2006

Date

2006-06-24

Description

Includes meeting agenda, along with additional information about bills. CSUN Session 36 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Astrid Silva oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-04-22

Description

Oral history interview with Astrid Silva conducted by Monserrath Hernández and Barbara Tabach on April 22, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Astrid Silva was born in Gomez Palacio, Durango in 1988. She immigrated with her mother to the United States in 1992, where they were met by her father before flying to Los Angeles. She recounts her first impression of the United States and her families eventual move to Las Vegas, where she describes her time living in Las Vegas' west side and struggles she faced being an undocumented student living in Las Vegas. She describes her first meeting with Senator Harry Reid and the friendship that developed afterwards. She has spoken at the Democratic National Convention and has been vocal about her status as a Dreamer. She is currently the Executive Director for DREAM Big Nevada which was established in 2017 in order to provide aid to Nevada's immigrant families. She writes about her hopes for Dreamers and her continued work in expanding the ways that immigrant families can be helped in an always changing political climate. Subjects discussed include: DACA, Dreamers, Immigrant Rights, and Higher Education.

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