Topic: Las Vegas

renderings of maryland parkway
Business and Community | July 1, 2016

Through UNLV's Downtown Design Center, architecture students learn vital lessons in collaboration during neighborhood redevelopment.

Ai Ja, Min, and Sue Kim
Arts and Culture | December 18, 2015

Long before K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters. Now an Eadington Fellow is exploring what their meteroic rise on Las Vegas entertainment scene has to do with American ideals of beauty, citizenship and capitalism amidst Cold War politics.

World Series of Poker game
Campus News | November 16, 2015

Eadington Fellow dives into UNLV's archives to examine the relationship between sports media and cultural memory in poker's main event.

Brittany Bronson and George Saunders
Arts and Culture | May 5, 2015

UNLV English instructor Brittany Bronson named a New York Times opinion writer. Plus new books on Nevada history and women in the workforce.

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Business and Community | July 21, 2014

The nonprofit organization COLAB Las Vegas is creating opportunities for local artists to win major public arts projects. Meet the UNLV alumni behind it.

Andy Kirk
People | July 17, 2013

The director of UNLV's public history program explains why the myth that Las Vegas has no history persists.

Oldest book on gaming in the UNLV Libraries collection
Research | April 2, 2013

UNLV's Center for Gaming Research dispels some of the more enduring misconceptions about gambling.

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Arts and Culture | October 30, 2012

"Gatsby" just won an Oscar for best costumes thanks in part to fashion historian Deirdre Clemente. She was a consultant on the movie's costumes. Here's her thoughts on the traditional rules of fashion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dressing your age in Las Vegas.

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People | September 24, 2012

The new director of the School of Architecture’s Downtown Design Center on sustainable urban design and the propensity of architects to wear black clothing.

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People | August 2, 2012

What you see on the Las Vegas Strip isn’t built to last and that's OK, says Glenn NP Nowak, architecture professor and coordinator of the hospitality design program.

Old Sahara on the Vegas Strip sometime in the mid-1950s with cars lined up in parking lot.
Arts and Culture | July 23, 2012

New UNLV digital collection offers look at history of resort architecture in Las Vegas.