Opening Ceremony
September 8, 2009
On Sept. 8, 2009 UNLV and The Brookings Institution announced a significant joint initiative that will address infrastructure, public policy and quality of life challenges in Las Vegas and the mountain west states.
To commemorate the occasion, Brookings Institution scholars offered the inaugural Brookings Scholars lectures, free and open to the public.
- How We're Doing: A Composite Index of Global and National Trends
William J. Antholis, managing director, Brookings Institution - Metropolitan Las Vegas: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Vision
Mark Muro, fellow and director of policy, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution; and Robert E. Lang, nonresident senior fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Ruy Teixeira, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Joint Fellow, Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation, speaks at a conference, "The Political Demography and Geography of the Intermountain West."
