Paragon Gaming has committed $1 million to the UNLV Athletics RebelUp campaign to help launch a new career development program at UNLV for female student-athletes. The Diana Bennett Career Development Program for Women's Sports will provide internship programming, resume-building, networking, job shadowing, externship programs, skills training, etiquette training, and more.

An interdisciplinary UNLV team — backed by a $2.1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy — is innovating a unique, clean energy solution to replace blast furnace technology, a centuries-old steel production method that has long powered the iron and steel industry. Over the next three years, the team will pioneer a technology that can “scale up and compete” with the industry-standard blast furnace method, ultimately lowering the industry's carbon footprint.

As part of a mentorship program in the School of Architecture, students work with faculty to develop their portfolios and participate in national competitions. Two students in the mentorship program, Han Bui and Catherine Douglas, were finalists of the 2024 American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Student Portfolio Competition. Selected from a highly competitive pool of over 200 graduate and undergraduate applicants nationwide, their achievement is a significant accomplishment for the program and a tremendous national honor for UNLV.

The annual President’s Innovation Challenge is a team competition that encourages entrepreneurship to help solve major problems in Southern Nevada and beyond. In response to this year’s prompt to chart the future of education through innovative applications of artificial intelligence, a handful of students came together to find a solution that would help improve the lives of the people closest to them: their families. The winning teams were awarded $10,000 to $25,000 to support the implementation of their innovations.

The first and central repository for material documenting the history of Southern Nevada, UNLV Special Collections & Archives received a grant to digitize approximately 800 unique audiovisual items found across a number of archival collections related to gaming and hospitality. The Library is also collaborating with the Tropicana to preserve its six-decade legacy on the Strip, adding to the extensive gaming-related research material collection.

UNLV Physical Therapy jumped more than 10 spots and ranked at 44th in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. The program's continual rise into the top 50 reflects an ongoing dedication to advanced research, positive student outcomes, and improved community health.

Boyd Law again ranked among the nation’s best, according to U.S. News and World Report, in overall and multiple discipline-specific categories. The school earned top ten rankings in legal writing (2) and dispute resolution (7). Overall, Boyd ranked 78th out of 196 accredited programs, and its part-time program ranked 13th.

Students at UNLV are collaborating with the Clark County School District to promote technology and innovation. The College of Engineering created a course that allows students to earn credit by providing materials and training high school students for the Las Vegas Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.