The UNLV School of Medicine launched its first class July 17 but the community outreach for providing medical care is already underway and will expand in the future. UNLV has taken over eight patient clinics that the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine operated. That includes a multispecialty pediatric center, a family and sports medicine clinic, behavioral health and counseling. UNR had 24 offices and clinical spaces and UNLV will create eight patient clinics, many around University Medical Center and others in the northeast valley.

The highest-volume gambling hall in Ohio, with revenue in 2016 of $225.1 million, is getting into the business of pumping gas in the $2.25-a-gallon range. In October, the Hard Rock Rocksino will open the RockStop Gas & Wash in its parking lot along Northfield Road in the village of Northfield in northern Summit County.

Dan McLaughlin reckons he’s sat down to compose the farewell post to the Dan Plan a hundred times. “I just don’t know what to write,” he says. Sitting in his spartan home in Portland, Oregon, McLaughlin is self-effacing and soft-spoken. He recently launched an artisanal soft-drink venture. Discussing the Dan Plan is like reaching back into another life: Seven-plus years ago, aged 30 and unsure even of which hand to grip a golf club in, McLaughlin quit his job as a commercial photographer, took in lodgers to cover the mortgage, husbanded his savings for green fees, and set out to make the PGA Tour, home to the world’s elite golfers.

Dwaine Knight’s first office at UNLV was a converted utility closet inside the Thomas & Mack Center. The door opened the wrong way and there was barely enough space for the golf coach to maneuver. “It had a chair and table to put a phone on,” he recalls.

Heather Wilde is CTO of both ROCeteer and TWIP. In this exclusive interview, Wilde shares with TechNewsWorld her insights on how women can get ahead in tech, offering pearls of wisdom like this one: "Don't just stick with the girls."

Live event production companies in Las Vegas soon will be able to fill the void with newly trained employees. The Stage Technician Education and Development Intensive (STEADI) certificate program and Entertainment Electrics course offered by UNLV Continuing Education provides participants with an entry-level, intensive education in live event production.

Will Kreitler has been working with the centers vying to take his old job, and Sid Acosta has walked around Rebel Park as a daily reminder of what could be. Kreitler was UNLV’s outstanding center the past two football seasons, but his eligibility is up. Acosta is still recovering from a torn ACL, so rather than getting ready to step in for Kreitler, he can do little more than watch.

In his recent trip to Nevada, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent a few hours in one of our newest national monuments — Gold Butte, where he viewed Native American rock art threatened by vandals, hiking trails that offer countless opportunities for exploration and fragile desert plants and wildlife native to only this region.

A gender gap persists in science, technology, engineering and math, a problem that researchers say could begin to be understood and then solved through research. U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., has introduced two pieces of legislation to address the issue. The Building Blocks of STEM and Code Like a Girl acts both seek to fund research into early childhood STEM education.