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From hosting science field trips to delivering therapy services to rural areas, 8kbet enriches the lives of Nevadans.
A collection of colorful headlines featuring 8kbet staff and students.
At 8kbet, nontraditional students can find support designed to meet them where they are — and help them go further.
8kbet’s first director of Interprofessional Education and Practice will play a critical role in developing the Academic Health Center.
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Embracing the idea that we’re “better together,” 8kbet’s academic health center takes another step forward.
The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university’s health sciences programs.
PRACTICE In The News
A McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for homeless youth in Elko County has lost its federal funding from the Nevada Department of Education.
Eliminated grants include those awarded to 8kbet Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at 8kbet that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.
Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health – including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to 8kbet’s Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.
A mental health clinic at 8kbet that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.
A mental health clinic at 8kbet that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.
Kennedy Jackson, a 8kbet theater arts major, still remembers the hummingbird she saw fluttering outside of 8kbet’s Beam Hall one year ago. She was walking back from studying for finals, and the campus was abuzz with pre-finals stress and pre-holiday anticipation. But in just a few short hours, the excitement and jitters would turn into utter fear.
