Building on the success of UNLV’s wastewater surveillance program, the university is partnering with the Southern Nevada Health District, Southern Nevada Water Authority, and Desert Research Institute on a new online dashboard to detect early increases of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants in Southern Nevada.
The Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV will continue its long-standing study of traffic-related injuries and fatalities in Nevada, thanks to a grant from the NV Dept. of Public Safety. The school maintains a longitudinal database spanning more than a decade of vehicle crash and statewide trauma center injury data, highlighting trends to encourage development of safety policies that will save lives and prevent injuries.
Sport management professor Nancy Lough and colleagues with the national Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport co-authored “DisruptHERS,” a new model to change how women’s sports are marketed, sponsored, endorsed, invested in, and broadcast. The timely report drives home how people of different generations, genders, and genres can tap into their own personal platforms to power change.
Paul Werth, professor of history, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the area of European and Latin American history. He is among a diverse group of 180 scholars representing various disciplines chosen from thousands of applicants across North America.
UNLV’s Harrah College of Hospitality was again ranked best in the nation and number two in the world for hospitality and leisure management, according to the 2022 QS World Universities rankings. UNLV was the only U.S. school ranked inside the category’s top 10. UNLV also ranked second in CEO World’s 2022 list of hospitality and hotel management schools.
UNLV junior Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews has been awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for 2022. Matthews, a social work major and a member of the Honors College, is one of just 58 students nationwide to earn the highly coveted national honor.
UNLV scientists have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures. Physicists in UNLV’s Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab created a new tetragonal phase of ice, called Ice-VIIt, while working to understand the behavior of high-pressure water that may exist in the interior of distant planets or perhaps within the mantle of Earth.
An innovative student design for automated and self-watering microgreen gardens took the $25,000 top prize at the inaugural President’s Innovation Challenge. The competition called on interdisciplinary
student teams to come up with actionable ideas to deliver new business, new industry, or even entirely new sectors to our local economy.
UNLV placed 23 programs – including 13 from the William S. Boyd School of Law – among the nation’s top 100 in their fields, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual collection of top graduate and professional schools. In addition to another strong showing from Boyd Law, the Lee Business School’s part-time MBA program jumped 14 places to crack the top 75, and four engineering disciplines ranked within the top 100.
The UNLV men's swimming and diving team earned its second consecutive WAC team title in February. This marks the first championship repeat for the Rebels since sweeping the trophies from 2014-15, and it’s the team’s fourth overall title as a WAC member.
Student ingenuity will be on display April 6 when UNLV hosts the inaugural President’s Innovation Challenge. The competition challenges teams of undergraduate and graduate students across disciplines to come up with innovative solutions to diversify and create a sustainable Las Vegas economy.
The nation’s first AI president, a digital twin of President Whitfield, is now available to students online 24/7. The digital president can answer thousands of questions on more than 500 topics, from financial aid and student wellness to offering ways to get involved on campus. Students can have a real conversation to get the information they need – with a little encouragement from the president along the way.