Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas also are involved in the project. They will share approximately $300,000 of the total award.

The future engineers are making their mark on local roads to improve transportation for drivers. The National Summer Transportation Institute (NSTI) hosted a two-week program to give students the opportunity to envision and redesign streets across the valley.

The extended heat is causing elevated cases of heatstroke and burns.

Near record-breaking temperatures have arrived in Las Vegas, and many residents are feeling the heat.

Nevada’s Republican governor signed a bill on Wednesday in Henderson that increased the penalties for reckless drivers who kill someone while speeding.

With the 4th of July just next week a lot of people will be heading to the airport and going through the airport connector tunnel. If you drive through it chances are you're probably speeding. Traffic safety experts explain why the speed limit is unsafe.

Our roads are dangerous. And new analysis of crash numbers show that high speed maybe the biggest culprit.

Modeled on legal and health clinics, campus units that give students hands-on training while providing a community service gain university, corporate and government backing.

More than a year after the tragic loss of a Henderson teenager, the parents of Rex Patchett have a reason to celebrate.

For many years, UNLV researchers have been conducting world-class big data research – addressing questions related to many fields such as national security and public health. Located centrally in the west, UNLV houses a high-performance computing center – The National Supercomputing Institute – that allows for an array of big data research.

Faint clanking and drilling sounds echo quietly among the buildings on the UNLV campus near south Maryland Parkway and Cottage Grove Avenue.

There are, at this moment, 187 clinical trials for the neurodegenerative disease underway, the highest ever on record, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association (AA). The research was published in the association’s journal, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, last week, featuring data scraped from the ClinicalTrials.gov database.