In The News: College of Fine Arts
A UNLV team took third place in a U.S. Department of Energy challenge to design and build a home powered by solar energy.
A student team from the University of Colorado-Boulder won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge.
The UNLV team took home third place in the Solar Decathalon, the US Secretary of Energy announced on April 18 during a virtual ceremony.
UNLV Solar Decathlon team to learn results of international competition as they came in 3rd place.
UNLV students were racing to put the finishing touches on Mojave Bloom, a 628-square-foot home they’ve built from scratch for the U.S. Department of Energy’s international 2020 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. The biennial contest challenges colleges worldwide to design, construct and operate homes powered by renewable energy.
Raised in Dubai and currently based in the United States, Lebanese-American Diana Zeineddine is a force to be reckoned with!
In the sound sculpture “Gnaw,” a demented stuffed animal shakes while making weird chewing noises. In “Cradle,” plastic fingers are hot-glued together to form an organic tower that’s equal parts disturbing and comforting. In “Soap,” a rainbow of soap baseballs questions the masculine tradition of sports. And in “Bunting for Babylon II (Coke & Crystals),” a patriotic decoration is reimagined as a critique of runaway capitalism.
Ask Ann-Margret what first springs to mind when someone brings up Las Vegas, and she calls out such terms as, “Happiness,” and “Bang!” and also, “Wow!”
UNLV is defining the idea of powerhouse, in terms of both dominance in a global home design contest and literally powering houses.
Helping build a small house powered by renewable energy was a life-changing experience for UNLV student Alejandro Munoz.
UNLV students are building an energy efficient home that they designed as part of the Solar Decathlon project.
The walls of this house have sound-absorbing panels and multiple layers of thermal insulation. The home was designed to muffle jarring outside sounds and prevent disturbing echoes from bouncing off the interior walls.