UNLV’s College of Fine Arts brings on a new dean this summer.

Her name is Nancy Uscher. She brings with her a diverse background in arts administration, teaching, and performing – including six years as a violist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

T-Mobile Arena holds the current crown as the largest and newest performance venue on the Las Vegas Strip. And if some executives from New York's Madison Square Garden have their way, it will have company.

About 72 percent of the juvenile victims of human trafficking in Nevada come from within the state, experts said Wednesday.

Just how big a part could a new stadium, the proposed Las Vegas Dome, play in securing the UNLV's potential membership in a Power 5 conference? Can it also save UNLV athletics?

The Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee on Thursday dug into the details of a complex financial proposal to build a $1.4 billion domed stadium that could lure the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.

It was specifically mentioned once over the course of hours Thursday, as charts and numbers and percentages of public and private dollars again were bantered about in regard to a proposed 65,000-seat stadium that could bring an NFL team to Las Vegas.

The Barrick Museum does it again. The fresh and zesty Five presents work by five recent UNLV artists-in-residence based in LA, New York and Brooklyn. Co-curated by Aurore Giguet and Alisha Kerlin, Five includes paintings, photographs, installations, sculptures and videos representing a range of contemporary art tendencies—conceptual to concrete.

Many students dream about growing up and becoming an astronaut or at least aspiring to work with astronauts. While many students are light years away from being scientists for NASA, a few Clark County students recently moved one step closer to working with the International Space Station.

Summer colds are the worst.

You’re not sure how you caught one, but you did — and now you’d love to know where it came from. Or maybe that’s one of those medical mysteries, the kind that Mary Guinan, Ph.D., M.D. solved. In her new book “Adventures of a Female Medical Detective” (with Anne D. Mather), she takes you on some not-so-cold cases.