![Magazine cover featuring The Esports Spectacle story](/sites/default/files/styles/300_width/public/unlv_magazine/00%20cover.s17.jpg?itok=ZweZje-8)
In This Issue
![Illustration of several people playing video games](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/esports_feature_opener.jpg?itok=Ivcv6O81)
Esports is moving from huddles around a computer to becoming the next big spectator sport — and resorts are betting that it’ll bring Millennials into casinos.
![A woman crossing her arms in front of a slot machine](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/media/image/2023-01/Brett-Abarbanel-D71207-006.jpg?itok=u_kX2Sye)
The relationship between resorts, eSports and the Gaming Control Board is still being fleshed out. UNLV researchers are right there to examine these emerging paradigms.
![Tubes containing cannabis](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71458_20.jpg?itok=_CldwX3F)
UNLV alumni tell us why they took a chance on Nevada’s budding marijuana industry.
![Douglas Duncan and Israel Alvarado](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71463_08.jpg?itok=T_cGVcbh)
With limited options in Nevada for top-notch scientists, two UNLV grads welcome the high-tech jobs that the marijuana industry brought.
![A high school student explores a project](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/science_D71438_06.jpg?itok=3ldj3N0W)
UNLV mines its own grade books to ensure students aren’t weeded out of STEM classes.
![Screenshot of the U-N-L-V homepage](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_Untitled.jpg?itok=gb5ua4u8)
Hosting the final presidential debate helped put UNLV on the map for prospective students.
![Aerial view of Greenspun Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/hero_video/image/D69834_01.jpg?itok=FsUKAN9X)
Senator Harry Reid and Speaker John Boehner to co-chair institute within UNLV’s School of Public Policy and Leadership.
![Several covers of Believer magazine](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/believer.jpg?itok=fQUmJHqK)
The Believer, one of the world's leading journals of arts and culture, is a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award; publication part of BMI mission to connect writers, and literary imagination, to public life.
![Ross Bryant speaks at podium](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71299_041.jpg?itok=HYtkjpIp)
Ross Bryant selected as top advisor out of 1,400 Student Veterans of America chapters nationwide.
![UNLV Hockey team during a game](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/UNLVhockey.jpg?itok=NY-45mQj)
Skatin' Rebels, currently a non-varsity team, hopes to follow the lead of Arizona State as the second NCAA Division I team in college hockey from the Southwest.
![Desiree Reed-Francois shakes hands](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/DRFConference_Use.jpg?itok=cmGehmBc)
Former Virginia Tech deputy begins her tenure at UNLV June 1.
![An illustration of a newspaper cover featuring the Hiroshima bombing](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/DoomTownsMain_0.jpg?itok=SrBRwQHc)
UNLV professor Andy Kirk's "Doom Towns" takes a ground-level view of ground zero, and presents it in the form of graphic novel about Las Vegas' position in the atomic firmament.
![Georgiann Davis speaks at Ted Talks](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Georgiann_D70797_13.jpg?itok=zrg7OQKj)
Sociologist Georgiann Davis embraces her public persona as she delves into sociological issues in the medical community.
![A pedestrian exiting a crosswalk on Maryland Parkway](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/nc_D68908_11.jpg?itok=Fx98UJXE)
UNLV study confirms that motorists are less likely to stop for pedestrians of color.
Step into the custom-designed training center for UNLV nursing students where manikins talk, blood is made by the gallon, and life-saving skills are mastered.
![Stephen M. Miller smiling and sitting behind a shelf filled with books](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Miller_D71422_05.jpg?itok=E2NQ0d9u)
The director of UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research on the economic issues we can't keep kicking down the road.
![Chip Johnson standing behind a statue](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Johnson_D71431_10.jpg?itok=_MdZV4m6)
When the real estate market took its toll on Chip Johnson, the 2017 Alumnus of the Year leaned on the relationships he started at UNLV.
![A man raising his arm up and his hand in a pointing pose](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Bunin_mainNUP_176267_1259.jpg?itok=LLmpw2MP)
As a utility player of the acting profession, alumnus Michael Bunin has found his niche in Hollywood.