A quick comment by a UNLV professor changed the course of her life. Now back at UNLV as new Lincy Institute director of education, Martinez hopes to influence the lives of Nevada's children through her policy research.

UNLV researchers report in Nature Geoscience that phosphate, which plays a role in life-creating chemical reactions, may have been more plentiful on early Mars than during the emergence of life on Earth.

Resident experts Barbara Luke and Wanda Taylor weigh in as UNLV prepares to participate in the Great Nevada Shakeout on Thursday.

An Army and Navy veteran, nursing professor Bruce Leonard lived in many states before moving to Las Vegas. He came to UNLV on the advice of a current nursing professor.

Water Authority executive Pat Mulroy spends a week as a visiting scholar and encourages engineering students to keep an eye on the big picture.

The architecture professor talks about becoming part of the city’s creative class and learning to embrace messy mistakes.

The career coach reminds students that what they do well might not be what they want to do every day.

The works of medieval Italian composers such as Landini are beautifully copied in the Squarcialupi Codex in the UNLV Music Library.

An off-handed comment created a new career path for the leader of UNLV's subject librarians team.