We move now to UNLV.

One year has passed since a gunman shot four UNLV professors, killing three of them and seriously injuring another.

It happened December 6, 2023, on campus at Beam Hall, which is where the university now has several works of art honoring the victims on display.

Nevada Week was at the university's remembrance ceremony and spoke with some of the students behind the art, which includes a series of murals as well as a senbazuru.

Senbazuru is a Japanese tradition of folding paper cranes to symbolize hope, healing, and peace.

♪♪♪ (Denise Atandi) Our group chat, we were talking, our class, and we were like, We want to do something for our professors.

And I thought back to in high school when we made 1,000 cranes for someone's mom who was going through cancer.

I was like, why don't we do that for our Japanese professor who tragically lost her life?

(Chani Johnston) They were looking for some organizers, and I said, I would love to.

It was kind of really a way for me to show my love for her, because I was one of her students, Takemaru's students.

And I really just wanted to do this for her and show like, people really love her and really care for her.

She was telling me she had a black cat when she was growing up, and so that's kind of like, what inspired me.

I bought a lot of the paper, so I was like, I need to get cats in there, because that's what she loved, and that was something that we shared together.

-We folded 4,000 cranes for each professor that was injured or lost their lives that day.

We didn't just, like, say that we were going to do it; like, we really, really did it.

We had a year.

We had a deadline.

We made sure it was all gonna be done.

So many people stayed really late at night to fold cranes, to string cranes.

We had so many meetings, and it was the culmination of, like, everyone's work.

-You get to make new friends, and then you get to learn, like, Oh, my gosh, you were in my class one time.

I didn't know you well, but now we're together, and you're meeting strangers, and you're becoming friends with them.

-To be done on the anniversary is really special to really show that instead of thinking only about tragedy, we wanted to share the joy that we have.

-This is such a moment in history that no one should ever just forget.

Like, we should always remember what happened that day and always continue to strive to remind people that we are strong and that, together, we are much more than what they think we are.

♪ Lean on me when you're not strong ♪ ♪ and I'll be your friend ♪ ♪ I'll help you carry on ♪♪ ♪♪♪ (Haide Calle) This mural is a collaboration between the two of us, and we wanted to do something that represented each professor.

(Anjelo Vigilia) The mic is symbolic for Dr. Navarro's passion for singing.

Outside of teaching, she liked to sing for fun.

If you move down the piece, you'll see a fishing rod, and that fishing rod represents Dr. Chang's liking for ice fishing.

And then when you look at the piece and move to the left, you can see a book written by Dr. Takemaru herself, which is a big success and something that we wanted to pay tribute to.

-Professor Chang enjoyed having tea, and he would serve tea throughout class and everything, just to, like, create conversations with other students.

We wanted to bring that into the painting just to show this whole idea of them kind of communally having this tea together.

I feel like it's something that I had to do more than wanting to do it, because just part of me feels like it's-- I feel like art can be definitely a great service to a lot of people, and it's a way for them and us to also heal from that day.

-I think that despite the tragedy, I like to think that UNLV is becoming stronger as a community, and I firmly believe that from here on out, being a Rebel is going to have a different meaning.

-A thank you to Nevada Week Executive Producer Kristen Kidman, a Rebel herself, and Nevada Week Videographer and Editor Justin Grant for putting that beautiful piece together.