UNLV wants to continue being an innovator when it comes to casino gaming. In just two years, the Center for Gaming Innovation has taken student ideas from the drawing board, straight to the casino floor.

Many slot machines on casino floors bear images of faded but recognizable movies or TV shows such as “Sex and the City,” “Ghostbusters” or the still-running “Wheel of Fortune,” appealing to an older generation of players who reliably play the random games of chance.

If you go to school at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, fly into McCarran International Airport or party on the Las Vegas Strip, you're technically not in Las Vegas — you're in Clark County.

The University of Central Florida was one of 50 universities and colleges nationwide to make Value Colleges Top 50 Best Value Online MSN Programs of 2015.

Reacting to the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico last September, Las Vegas artist Javier Sanchez created a multimedia installation confronting the ongoing brutality of the Mexican drug wars. The haunting experience in the Barrick Museum reverberated much more intensely than ephemeral headlines on social media and transcended the usual impersonal data tied to tragedy.

I study one of the most profound cultural changes of the 20th century: the rise of casual dress.

If you weren’t a fan of soccer before 2015, America’s record-breaking victory in this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup just might make one out of you. In early July, all eyes were on the U.S. Women’s National Team as it became the first to win three FIFA Women’s World Cups and the only one ever to score five goals, the most in a WWC Final.

State courts are twice as likely to incarcerate Native teens for minor crimes such as truancy and alcohol use than any other racial and ethnic group, according to the Tribal Law and Policy Institute. And juvenile detention facilities around the country have a disproportionately high number of Native American youth, according to an Indian Law and Order Commission report.

At age 12, Mark Brandenburg mopped the basement floors at Las Vegas' first casino: the Golden Gate at 1 Fremont St. Nearly 50 years later, he has his own office in the building as its president and shareholder.