In The News: Office of the President

Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during “The Global Sustainability Revolution: A Conversation with Al Gore” at UNLV’s Ham Hall in Las Vegas Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

On Tuesday afternoon, Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid introduced Former Vice President Al Gore to a packed auditorium at UNLV.

If you think it’s hot in Las Vegas now, Al Gore says, just be glad it’s not the year 2100.

Al Gore is clearly a fan of sequels.

Former Vice President Al Gore is in Las Vegas today. Gore will speak at UNLV at an event on climate change. It starts at 3 p.m. at the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. The discussion is open to the public but the ticketed event is at capacity.

She’s one of the most famous photographers of all time, and on April 3, Annie Leibovitz spoke to a packed theater inside Artemus Ham Hall at UNLV. The talk was the final installment of the current season of the Barrick Lecture Series, which kicked off with Oscar-winning film director Guillermo del Toro last October.

After the abrupt resignation of Len Jessup as UNLV’s president last year, regents appointed Marta Meana, a psychology professor and administrator, as the acting president.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has been included among a list of elite-level universities, according to the Carnegie Classification.

UNLV has accomplished one of its major goals — a classification as a “Tier 1” university — seven years ahead of schedule.

Carnegie classification's new category of “doctoral/professional universities" acknowledges growing role of non-research-oriented doctoral work in graduate education.

With one official fearing UNLV could become known as “the university under the overpass,” the school’s president and Nevada System of Higher Education regents aired concerns about how a proposed elevated expressway project could impact the university.

Clark County’s plans to build an elevated roadway to ease traffic between McCarran International Airport and the Strip has drawn the ire of some higher education officials