Nevada’s higher education institutions are on track to receive the largest single injection of state dollars in years, not only $75 million in restored COVID-era cuts but also tens of millions from a Legislature desperate to stem hemorrhaging statewide populations of doctors, nurses and teachers.

UNLV's preschool will soon be expanding to serve twice as many children each year after receiving a $10 million anonymous donation. “Access to affordable, high-quality early childhood education sets the foundation for a lifetime of success," UNLV President Keith Whitfield said in a press release. "This transformative gift will dramatically expand operations at the preschool and make it possible for more families — including UNLV students — to experience Southern Nevada’s premier learning community.”

For the second year in a row, UNLV's Rebel Girls & Company dance team is the best in the world in hip-hop.

Congratulations to the UNLV Rebel Girls & Company dance team for finishing first at this year's International Cheer Union World Championships. This was the second straight year the team was chosen to represent the U.S. at the competition.

For a second consecutive year, UNLV’s Rebel Girls & Company dance team is the world’s best in hip-hop.

Barnes’ research, along with the work of two other pioneering Black psychologists — Jennifer Manly of Columbia University and Keith Whitfield, now the president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas — has raised a slew of critical questions about how the disease differs in Black populations, why cognitive testing relied on to clinically diagnose dementia may fail Black patients, and whether the disease progresses differently in them.

On Thursday, the University Board of Regents voted unanimously to allow UNLV to sell a piece of their property to the Boring Company, the builders of the Las Vegas Loop.

Good things are happening throughout Nevada’s education systems starting with K-12 all the way through postgraduate. From proposed funding under new state leadership to dual enrollment programs paving the way to college for high school students, education is getting the attention it deserves.