As Nevada and other Western states look to spread out across more federal land, environmentalists and advocates of “smart growth” worry about sustainability, sprawl, water and climate change.

Holocaust survivors and their descendants shared their personal experiences at a special Passover Seder at UNLV Wednesday to honor and remember the lives of the roughly six million Jews that were lost.

It’s probably no coincidence that former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou landed in Shanghai just a day before his successor, Tsai Ing-wen, took off for a two-night visit to New York on Tuesday.

New research by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas International Gaming Institute (IGI) suggests that identifying patterns of behavior when people pay for gaming services can eventually support responsible gambling efforts, as it might help detect at-risk players. The study was conducted based on data provided by various payment technology and software providers.

Anthony Cabot is a Distinguished Fellow in Gaming Law with more than 40 years of experience, including the past five years with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. Here he speaks with IAG about the importance of ethics within the gaming industry.

University Police Services partnered up with several Las Vegas valley agencies to enforce crosswalk safety around the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s campus to show both drivers and pedestrians that road safety is no joke.

UNLV represents a real-world case study demonstrating the broad trends researchers and research offices have faced for more than a decade.

Barnes’ research, along with the work of two other pioneering Black psychologists — Jennifer Manly of Columbia University and Keith Whitfield, now the president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas — has raised a slew of critical questions about how the disease differs in Black populations, why cognitive testing relied on to clinically diagnose dementia may fail Black patients, and whether the disease progresses differently in them.

The Clark County School District historically struggled with recruiting enough teachers, but have things changed over the past few years? Plus, Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to create an Office of Workforce. We look at the importance of that effort and what it means for training the workforce of the future.