In The News: College of Liberal Arts
“It makes me lose a little faith in humanity,” says neuroscientist Dustin Hines. The source of his despair is Power Slap, a brutal offshoot of combat sport which sees competitors deliver open hand slaps across the face of their opponent.
Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored to win in a landslide. His body was preserved in a bathtub full of ice so his seat could remain Democratic. Or, so the story goes.
The former Trump national security advisor will be hosted by pro-independence groups in Taipei.
Summer means a few things: ice cream cones, tee shirt sweat stains, and a range of new style opportunities. Thanks to the 20-year nostalgia cycle, fashion staples from the '90s and early aughts are having a moment. Whether it's the runway or red carpet, we're seeing the return of low-rise jeans, plenty of butterfly clips, and tube tops.
Panelists at a major casino industry conference said the construction of three new casinos in New York could cost Atlantic City 20% to 30% of its casino revenue, a development that could possibly return the resort to the days of casino closures.
The carnage of the war was so extreme that historians have had a difficult time agreeing on exactly how many people lost their lives.
The shuttered Hawaiian Marketplace shopping complex has been razed to make way for a new 300,000-square-foot shopping center on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, just south of Harmon Avenue.
Las Vegas residents are one step closer to not having to drive to Primm to play the lottery.
The Politics Department of Duke University in North Carolina (Duke) recently invited a professor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to give a lecture on "The Impact of the Ukraine War on Taiwan and the World", and also to analyze and reflect on the crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
The members of the K-Pop stars, BTS will perform their required military service, placing the group on hiatus until around 2025.
The shuttered retail complex Hawaiian Marketplace has been demolished to make way for a new 300,000-square-foot retail center on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, just south of Harmon Avenue.
In a market relying so heavily on the growth of sports, this initiative envisions itself as the center of sports sciences, business and innovation in Las Vegas. The UNLV Sports Innovation Initiative (SII), which calls itself, “The Hub of Innovation in the Global Sports Capital,” took time at a UFC-owned venue Wednesday to hammer home its mission.