When Lara Carver and Anne Diaz walked across the Thomas & Mack Center stage during UNLV’s Spring Commencement activities on May 17, they earned more than their degrees - they made Nevada history as the state’s first nursing Ph.D. graduates. With nursing school applications surging nationally, qualified students are being relegated to waiting lists or turned away due to a shortage of Ph.D. prepared nurse educators. UNLV’s School of Nursing, which launched Nevada’s first Ph.D.

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