Researchers at UNLV are making strides in the fight against AIDS.

Local high students are conquering their fear of public speaking thanks to UNLV's Sanford I. Berman Debate Forum.

Assistant football coaches from three universities patiently wait in the lobby of Tony Sanchez’s office for their turn to speak with the Bishop Gorman High coach during the height of recruiting season. On this day, they see firsthand why Sanchez is considered a great coach.

In 2014 there was a clear gap between the Mountain West’s two divisions, with one side boasting four double-digit win teams and the other sending a championship representative that finished the season at 6-8. As the league descends on the Cosmopolitan this week for the annual media days it doesn’t look like that gap will be bridged in 2015.

Tesla, Faraday. There is a pattern coming together, and it looks like Nevada could be the pot into which the future of electric travel and electric power is melded.

A collection of biological codes sits in a library at UNLV. Much of the focus is learning how the codes can help cells fight off HIV. Researchers hope this work can be used to develop drugs much faster.

It’s not the near-campus stadium UNLV officials hope to eventually build for its football team, but recent changes to Sam Boyd Stadium will bring a different feel to Rebel home games this fall.

Our friends in Boulder City—and around Nevada and Arizona and California—are justly proud of Hoover Dam. Its construction made the growth of these areas possible, or at least more possible. Certainly, Las Vegas couldn’t have the population it has without the water from Lake Mead. And we wouldn’t be having the debates we’re having about water and our future, either.

One thing that drew me to UNLV is that this is truly a place of opportunity. Like so many of UNLV’s students and alumni, I am a first-generation college graduate. I went off to junior college to play baseball and expected to leave with a business certificate. It took a coach and then a series of professors to urge me on to a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and a Ph.D.