Experts In The News

The Nevada Independent

Confusion, fear and grief gripped UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center in the hours following the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

Los Angeles Times

The casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, with all their glitzy delights, aren’t just palaces of distraction. They’re miniature surveillance states.

Bleacher Report

Marshawn Lynch turns a racetrack into a sideshow in the premiere of No Script. UNLV professor Michael Pravica helps explain the physics behind it all.

News Deeply

IN 2015, ALBUQUERQUE delivered as much water as it had in 1983, despite its population growing by 70 percent. In 2016, Tucson delivered as much water as it had in 1984, despite a 67 percent increase in customer hook-ups. The trend is the same for Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, said longtime water policy researcher Gary Woodard, who rattled off these statistics in a recent phone interview.

Digital Trends

Stem cells are a crucial part of modern medicine and can be used to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. Now researchers at University of Nevada, Las Vegas have discovered a new way of harvesting these all-important biological cells by (get ready to wince!) extracting them from the root pulp inside every tooth.

Space Coast Daily

The U.S. Supreme Court may legalize sports betting in 32 states if it rules in the favor of New Jersey’s quest to provide various gambling options. It is estimated that a well-regulated sports betting market in the U.S. may be worth five times its current value, thereby creating more job opportunities along with financial windfall for all the people associated with it.

Il Post

His name is Joe Lombardo and after 30 years of career he found himself facing the investigation into the massacre of October 1st.

The New York Times

In nearly 30 years with the Las Vegas police, Joseph Lombardo has helped defuse an armed standoff between federal agents and local ranchers, struggled to contain a spike in homicides and defended his officers against accusations of using excessive force against a professional football player.