Topic: society and culture

teenage male, sitting in a dark hallway, holds his head in his hands
Research | February 26, 2016

Vulnerable youth have a friend in Ramona Denby-Brinson, the 2015 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner.

Lake Mead
Research | February 10, 2016

As water leaders contend with unprecedented drought and demand, will the river people of the Colorado band together as regional citizens? Water policy expert Patricia Mulroy weighs in.

coloured woodcut
Arts and Culture | February 8, 2016

Why do we sing the national anthem before a ballgame and hear the same plucking of the koto strings when a movie is set in Japan? Ethnomusicologist Richard Miller explains.

Alissa Cooley and Katelyn Franklin
Business and Community | January 6, 2016

Thanks to Justice Americorps Grant, Las Vegas is one of the few places in the nation where unaccompanied children receive free legal representation in court.

Health Law Program employees
Campus News | December 8, 2015

Boyd School of Law expands health law program.

magazines
Research | December 2, 2015

The increasing popularity of state lotteries coincides with a stagnant social mobility, according to work of the latest Eadington Fellow. Catch his free talk at 3 p.m. Dec. 3.

folded hands with hand cuffs
People | November 24, 2015

Boyd Law School students represent young offenders and advocate for legislative changes to how juveniles are treated in the Silver State.

Illustration of a drone with a human eye
Campus News | November 18, 2015

Drone regulation may come down to better defining reasonable expectations of privacy.

Wynn Tashman
Business and Community | October 27, 2015

UNLV law and education student Wynn Tashman is using experience in the Kids Court program to develop an educational intervention in support of LGBT youth in schools and legal settings.