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Current Business News
Go-getter Charles Weber found academic and professional development opportunities through MGM scholarship program at UNLV.
This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.
As plans for a permanent memorial garden take shape, community-driven projects offer a way for students and faculty to reckon with loss.
The awards honor Naoko Takemaru, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, and Patricia Navarro Velez.
Students in Lee Business School marketing course partner with Mars Wrigley to sweeten the deal and boost traffic to Rebel Express.
The project reframes the experience of walking into the building while honoring the memories of the professors lost.
Business In The News
Nevada ranks first for new homes built in natural landscapes prone to wildfires according to the Lied Center for Real Estate at UNLV. A map of the United States shows the growth percentage in residential housing units located in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) between 1990 and 2020. Nevada is marked in red and shows a growth rate of 208 percent.
A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community.
People are increasingly moving into the wildland-urban interface areas, where human development meets wild vegetation, like forests, according to a University of Nevada-Las Vegas expert. Such landscapes are also notorious for wildfires.
A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community. Congress passed the ban due to security concerns over the Chinese government’s app ownership. TikTok played a key part in the success of Guiliano Raso’s business, a food truck named 303 in the Cut.
Places in the west that are especially at risk to wildfire destruction are Urban Wildland Interfaces (UWI) — transition zones between unoccupied and urban land.
The wildfires that torched thousands of homes around Los Angeles will send refugees across the desert to Las Vegas, putting pressure on its tight housing market.