- UNLV Music Professor Adam Schroeder Releases Third AlbumAdam Schroeder's new release for Capri Records comes out officially on all streaming platforms on Jan. 19, 2024, and is also available on CD and LP. His first two albums on the label remained in the top 10 radio airplay for multiple weeks in a row, and both were chosen as the top 100 records of the year for each of their respective years. Listen to a featured song for free here…
- Welcome to the New Year: 'The Importance of Moving Forward' - A Message from Dean Nancy UscherDearest Friends and Colleagues: At the end of the fall 2023 semester, on December 6, 2023, our beloved university, UNLV, was dealt a devastating blow, a tragic event we could never have imagined happening, as we were poised to end the semester. As we all know firsthand, an active shooter on our campus viciously murdered three esteemed faculty colleagues and seriously injured a fourth victim.…
- UNLV School of Architecture Spring 2024 Lecture SeriesUNLV Architecture presents the Forces Shaping Contemporary Urban Thought free online lecture series for Spring 2024. Curated by Steffen Lehmann, UNLV Professor of Architecture + Urbanism. February 1: Operations at the Urban Scale with Prof. Viviano Villarreal-Bueron of Mass Operations (Mexico). February 29: Urban Design Now with Prof. Peng Du of Jefferson University (…
- Curt & Eliane Miller 'Pay It Forward' with Generous Gift to UNLV Jazz ProgramTrombonist and president of the Jazz Outreach Initiative Curt Miller and his wife Eliane, a former UNLV dance instructor, recently made a generous gift to the UNLV Division of Jazz and Commercial Music. The gift will be used for endowed scholarships and studio upgrades. "On behalf of the UNLV School of Music, Jazz and Commercial Music Division, I am honored to extend our heartfelt gratitude to…
- UNLV Architecture Project Recognized at World Landscape Architecture 2023 Student AwardsUNLV Architecture was recently awarded the Small Concept Design Merit Award at the World Landscape Architecture for their entry OASIS. Through the process of this project, students were interactive with one another and local businesses more than ever. The university’s fabrication lab staff and small, local fabrication companies assisted with the development of amenity pieces to…
- School of Architecture Professor Discusses Las Vegas Sphere on PBSGlenn NP Nowak, AIA joined Amber Renee Dixon and John Katsilometes on Vegas PBS Friday night to talk about the Sphere, the latest architectural marvel in the hospitality and entertainment design capital of the world.
- School of Music Student Wins at Metropolitan Opera Laffont CompetitionJoshua Thomas, first year Artist Diploma candidate in the Voice Area of the School of Music, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, CO in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and exposure to industry professionals. Along with…
- UNLV Music Doctoral Student Chosen as One of Only Five Students to Serve on the League of American Orchestras’ Student Leadership CouncilThe League of American Orchestras has formed a Student Leadership Council, the first in the organization’s 81 years, to provide a platform for the League to better understand and integrate the voices of young people into its work and support the growth of student engagement within the orchestra field. The new Council is part of a renewed commitment to grow participation by young people and…