UNLV Magazine UNLV Publications Spring 1995 UNLV Magazine Barbara Cloud University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/unlv_magazine Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Cloud, B. (1995). UNLV Magazine. In S. DiBella (Ed.),, UNLV Magazine, 3(2), 1-17. Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/unlv_magazine/38 This Magazine is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Magazine in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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When it comes to education, UNLV means business. For more information, call 895-3011 or 800-334-UNLV. AA-EEO on the cover: features Front - Artist's illustration attempts to capture the anxiety and uncertainty that prompt some youngsters to 5 Searching for Answers refuse to go to school. The q~wtions emanating from UNLV sociologist Back - Robert L. Bigelow Y annick St. ] ean)s 1'esearch area are probably Physics Building. Photo by m01'e numerous than the answers. But that doesn)t Studio West. stop her from looking for them. BY SUZAN D IBE LLA Editor: Suzan DiBella A Spirited Approach to Research Assistant Editors: Diane Russell, 8 Susie Greene Whether he)s in a1~ 800-year-old castle 01' his lab Art Director: John Hobbes at the universit)) Dean Radin explores the Contributing Editor: Tom Flagg unconventional and the unexplained, hoping to Contributing Writer: Barbara Cloud uncove1' what some wo ~tld call the unlmowable. 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UNLV is an AA/EEO institution. 22-23 Class Notes S PR ING 1 995 + NEWS NEWS Rebecca Mills Named 1994 Nevada Professor of the Year New Bigelow Physics Building Dedicated UNLV education professor Rebecca In a personal statement she was asked about themselves. UNLV recently dedicated me as well. They give tl1e impression of a Mills has been named the 1994 to submit with her entry form, Mills at­ "Teacher education is the key to new 70,000-square-foot Robert L. work in progress, which, in fact, is tlle Nevada Professor of the Year by the tempted to describe her contribution to educational reform; if our students are Bigelow Physics Building, which was case. As research projects Carnegie Foundation for the Advance­ the field of teaching. challenged to rethink the purposes and completed in 1994 at a cost of more change, communication and "'~ ~~~~~~=~~=======t==r ment ofTeaching. "My students literally fill the class­ methods of schooling, it is likely that than $11 million. power lines can be changed to Mills, an associate professor in in­ rooms of our nation's schools; I can schools will become better places. I The building, named for me father support them without tearing structional and curricular studies, joined think of no more significant contribution hope that my students are better of Las Vegas businessman and UNLV up the building. the UNLV faculty in 1987. While at to be made as a teacher," she wrote. teachers themselves because their think­ donor Robert M. Bigelow, was de­ Almough the new facility has UNLV, she has taught 14 different "I hope that I've influenced their think­ ing has been clarified, their successes signed by Holmes Sabatini Associates plenty of open, well-lighted public areas, lengths and to undergraduate-, master's-, and doctoral­ ing about learning, about students, have been celebrated, and their voices Architects and built by Sletten Construc­ me labs are windowless, tile air is llighly create the semi-enclosed exterior court­ level courses and has been an active about assessment, about schools, and have been heard." 1.1 tion ofNevada. filtered, possible sources of electtical in­ yard- a place for students and faculty to member of numerous professional orga­ Wim teaching and research facilities terference are isolated, me room tem­ enjoy a protected external environment. nizations and university committees. for some 1,000 students and the 15 peratures are carefully controlled, and Several of tl1e labs are equipped She has authored several teacher­ faculty members ofUNLV's physics me floors are isolated from me walls . All with traveling cranes capable of moving oriented journal articles about her re­ Bank of America Scholarship Established department, tl1e structure itself offers of these features are incorporated into heavy pieces of equipment, such as a search, which is classroom based and symbolic representations of some of me the design in order to protect sensitive 500-pound vacuum chamber. The focuses on the act of teaching, especially Bank of America has contributed minority students who otherwise would scientific principles and legends of physics. lasers and oilier equipment from un­ teaching labs are located on tl1e second at the middle-school level. $400,000 to UNLV to establish a not be able to afford a college educa­ Because tl1e study of physics depends wanted environmental influences. floor, along witl1 tl1e astronomy dome The Professor of the Year program, scholarship endowment and a scholarship tion," said BofA Nevada Chairman and so heavily on matl1ematics, tl1e architects The building consists of 13 research and telescope pedestals. which was started in 1981, salutes the fund for minority students majoring in CEO Richard A. Etter. incorporated a sine curve into tl1e two­ and eight teaching laboratories, two as ­ This building greatly expands botl1 most outstanding undergraduate instruc­ business administration. "This scholarship wo­ story undulating glass wall tl1at faces tl1e tronomy labs, and two demonsu·ation teaclling and research facilities. It will tors in the country. The Carnegie Foun- The goal of the scholarship program gram, however, is ~re building's canyon-like courtyard. labs, along with faculty and adminisu·a­ enable tl1e physics deparm1ent to accom­ is to increase the number of minority than just pro> v~mgL::=:~:: Vaulted roofs above laboratories are tive offices. modate growtl1 in tl1e faculty that will students studying business and subse­ students with ~-~:!!!allill reminiscent of tl1e Quonset huts that The research labs, all located on come as me Ph.D. program is fully quently increase tl1e pool of qualified assistance. It's served as research facilities at Los the first floor, are staggered along the implemented. It will also meet the in­ minority graduates who will enter tl1e providing them with Alamos, N.M., where the atonlic bomb soutllern wing to reduce corridor creasing demands of students. 1.1 banking industry, according to Bank of hands-on training and was born during World War II. America officials. skills that go beyond Vertical banners in red, orange, yel­ The donation, which was made the classroom." low, green, blue, indigo, and violet­ through the UNLV Foundation, will In addition to the scholarship pro­ the colors of the visible spectrum - be used to create the Bank of America gram, Etter said, the bank will be setting hang from tl1e ceilings of corridors and Nevada Scholarship Endowment for the up internships and mentoring programs lobbies throughout the building. College of Business and Economics and that will further bridge the gap between In the courtyard, palm trees march in UNLV Magazine and tlle tl1e Bank of America Scholarship Fund. the classroom and workplace. mathematical progression, beginning at Alumni News have gone Up to 25 scholarship awards of "UNLV is very committed to the the intersection of the structure's two Education professor Rebecca Mills $2,000 each will be made annually to support of minority students," said wings and leading out into an open full-time undergraduate or graduate UNLV interim President Kermy Guirrn.