In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV is beginning construction on its advanced engineering building — a project nearly a decade in the making.

PBS

After more than six months, Governor Steve Sisolak announced an end to Nevada’s mask mandate. In January, the Omicron variant spurred a surge in coronavirus cases but since a peak in mid-January cases have steadily been declining. 

KNPR News

Police say a driver was going 100 mph or more when he sped through a red light, killing himself, a passenger and 7 people he hit with his vehicle.

African Pilot

A static replica H-1 was displayed on a pole alongside Hughes’ ‘Spruce Goose’ at Long Beach when the latter aircraft was displayed in a dome adjacent to the Queen Mary. Other non-flying replicas are displayed at the Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Santa Maria Museum of Flight. As of 2016 another H-1 replica is being built at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

AZoM

Kristen Tagaytayan carefully unearthed her research sample from a nitrogen glovebox. She gingerly placed the sample onto her workspace and added a nickel chemical solution to it. Using a razor blade, she evened out the mixture across a glass slide and placed it in the lab's oven, where she watched it cook from behind the glass window.

Nevada Appeal

The Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved a $55.15 million contract with Core West to provide construction manager at risk services for the new engineering college building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Following a wrong-way crash on Interstate 15 that killed four people and injured two more, the question remains if there will be any safety improvements made to help prevent these wrong-way crashes.

Vegas Inc

Broadbent & Associates Inc., an environmental, water resource and civil engineering firm, expanded its team with the addition of Taylor Musarra as a project engineer and Will Wiggins as water/wastewater division manager. 

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

One of the smallest members of Raider Nation got a special gift over the weekend.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A Las Vegas girl has won the hearts of MLB fans across the country. Now, she's about to do the same at this Sunday's Raiders game.

Panay News

On June 3, the SpaceX CRS-22 rocket took off for the International Space Station-bound from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board was unusual cargo: oral bacteria and saliva.

Renewables Now

Natural gas distribution company Southwest Gas Corp will explore hydrogen-blended natural gas under pilot programmes with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and Arizona State University in Tempe (ASU).