To raise academic achievement, the participating schools will enlist UNLV doctoral students to tutor kids in math and literacy during school hours.

Getting your kids back into their school routines can yield profound benefits. But it can also reveal underlying challenges.

Getting your kids back into their school routines can yield profound benefits. But it can also reveal underlying challenges.

Back-to-school season kicked off with an opening ceremony for the Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus on Wednesday at UNLV. The Marlow campus is an expansion of the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool. The new campus will serve up to 80 additional preschool students and include space for early childhood and special education research.

The brief exchange lasted only a few seconds, but the reaction has since drawn national attention and sparked an even broader conversation about whether moments of tragedy have become influenced by the nation’s growing political divide.

Data centers have become a flashpoint in Southern Nevada, with Boulder City leaders fighting a proposed project on Bureau of Land Management land and the Nye County Commission working on a plan that would give voters the final say on a proposed data center in Pahrump.

A UNLV professor and doctor is weighing in on the science behind the pandemic, as partisan politics are playing out in Washington.

The 12,500-square-foot Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus will serve as the hub for childcare and early childhood education learning opportunities at UNLV. The campus features multiple colorful buildings housing a conference room with smart technology; family lounges full of seating and activities for children; outdoor playground areas; green spaces; and more classrooms than the previous building.

It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.