Professors in a wide range of disciplines captured top teaching honors at the end of spring semester.

Graduate student Leisl Carr Childers is studying the often contentious relationship between the federal government and ranchers in Nevada.

UNLV organization works to save state's most culturally significant sites from the wrecking block. The reason: To improve our quality of life.

UNLV organization works to save state's most culturally significant sites from the wrecking block. The reason: To improve our quality of life.

History professor Eugene Moehring is a respected scholar on urban history issues and the West. But the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award recipient says the students are still the most important part of the research equation.

A new book by the director of the UNLV Center for Gaming Research takes the reader through gambling’s historic timeline, from the earliest origins of using bones for dice up to the development of the high-tech resort casinos of today.

History professor Eugene Moehring is a respected scholar on urban history issues and the West. But the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award recipient says the students are still the most important part of the research equation.

History professor Thomas Wright explores government repression in Latin America in his award-winning book.

Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President’s Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.

UNLV history professor María Raquél Casas explores the racial and gender dynamics of interethnic marriage for Spanish-Mexican women in colonial California.

Two new Hal Rothman books extend the life works of the late professor.

A new book examines the history behind the creation of a separate court system for juvenile offenders and the discussions surrounding social and emotional development of adolescents.