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Construction workers guiding a beam up the side of a building.
Campus News | March 22, 2016

UNLV celebrates the Thomas & Mack Center expansion. Take a look at construction — then and now.

Nikki Troxclair
People | March 7, 2016

Choosing a career in the fast-paced communications field perhaps wasn't a surprising move for this associate VP who learned to skate before she could walk.

movie posters
Arts and Culture | February 17, 2016

Music professor Jonathan Lee on the birth of the Hollywood "Southern" — films and music that created the atmosphere of the South. Catch his University Forum talk Feb. 24.

Jessica Gandy
Campus News | February 17, 2016

A tough job teaching troubled teens hasn't kept Jessica Gandy from pursuing her law degree.

Lake Mead
Research | February 10, 2016

As water leaders contend with unprecedented drought and demand, will the river people of the Colorado band together as regional citizens? Water policy expert Patricia Mulroy weighs in.

coloured woodcut
Arts and Culture | February 8, 2016

Why do we sing the national anthem before a ballgame and hear the same plucking of the koto strings when a movie is set in Japan? Ethnomusicologist Richard Miller explains.

students roast marshmellows on campfire
UNLV History | January 29, 2016

Students send out North Field with party. Check out these photos.

Ellen Cosgrove
People | January 25, 2016

Creating an innovative curriculum for the new School of Medicine is a 'herculean' task. Here's one of the people with the expertise to do it well.

Ai Ja, Min, and Sue Kim
Arts and Culture | December 18, 2015

Long before K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters. Now an Eadington Fellow is exploring what their meteroic rise on Las Vegas entertainment scene has to do with American ideals of beauty, citizenship and capitalism amidst Cold War politics.