For the third consecutive season, the UNLV Lady Rebels have won the Mountain West Basketball Championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. UNLV is the first Mountain West women’s team to win both titles three seasons in a row. The Lady Rebels are making their 11th NCAA tournament appearance in program history and fourth since joining the Mountain West in 1999.

With funding from the governor's office, the College of Engineering StepUp & StartUp program has connected 50 UNLV students with 24 local tech companies for competitively paid internships. Apart from gaining valuable experience, the program offers a distinct advantage: the chance for students to make a significant impact during their internship — a unique benefit from the dynamic setting of a small company or startup.

In less than two years, the College of Education’s NV|Forward program has become the largest apprenticeship effort in the nation and has added 400 teachers to Nevada’s workforce. The program for working professionals helps them pursue their degrees and licensure at little to no cost while still earning a salary. And after they graduate, the program provides extensive coaching and professional development to retain them in the profession.

Within two years, Project Wellness has grown from an idea of like-minded student leaders into one of the university’s largest student organizations. The initiative, guided by the premise of students helping students, is quickly becoming a national model for student-led mental health programming. The group is collaborating with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities — UNLV’s institution accrediting agency — to replicate its effectiveness in other universities.

As part of its efforts to address the critical mental health issues in our community, the School of Public Health has partnered with The Defensive Line, a national nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention. The partnerships aim to educate adults about youth suicide and create safe places for young people to be honest and vulnerable about what they are going through.

UNLV remains a top choice for military veteran students, once again named among the nation’s top 10 “Military Friendly” campuses by Victory and G.I. Jobs Magazine. UNLV was ranked number three overall and was also named a Military Spouse Friendly School for the first time. Through the Military Veteran and Services Center (MVSC), UNLV enrolls more than 1,850 military-affiliated students. 

UNLV Sports Innovation partnered with Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics to create the Sports, Entertainment and Innovation Conference (SEICon). A first of its kind conference, SEICon brought global thought leaders, subject matter experts, and industry executives together to explore the latest innovations in sports and entertainment, esports and gaming, sports sociology and diversity, broadcast brands and media, research and development, and more.

UNLV student-athletes continue to excel academically — achieving a record 14th-straight semester with a 3.0 grade point average or higher. 168 UNLV student-athletes earned Dean's Honor List recognition for spring 2024, and the 88% student-athlete graduation rate set a record for the third straight year.