The UNLV School of Medicine has received provisional accreditation by the accrediting authority for medical schools throughout the U.S. and Canada, the university confirmed Wednesday.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas was granted provisional accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, bringing it one step closer to full accreditation, a goal it plans to reach by the 2021-22 academic year.

Roy Martin Middle school students take a Battle Born Girls Innovate tour at the HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas in the Luxor Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019.

The fact that neither Roy Martin Middle School eighth-grader expressed interest in someday working in the esports field, however, probably didn’t come as a shock to organizers of Wednesday’s Battle Born Girls Innovate outing at the arena at the Luxor.

The watery grave that swallowed whole an entire town 80 years ago has vanished.

It marked the first time Sydney Ferguson played the online game Fortnite, especially on equipment used during tournaments at the HyperX Esports Arena inside the Luxor.

Cassidy Percoco is joined by Lyndsey Craig, MS candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to chat briefly about the study, "Pubic Hair Removal Practices in Cross-Cultural Perspective," of which she was lead author. The study's anthropological in nature, but involves some descriptions of historical practices!

Roy Martin Middle school students take a Battle Born Girls Innovate tour at the HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas in the Luxor Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Battle Born Girls Innovate, an educational program for middle and high school girls, was founded by the UNLV International Gaming Institute.

Cracks in the desert floor appear random to the untrained eye, even beautifully so, but those patterns of dried clay turn out to be predictable — and useful in designing advanced materials.