Science, technology, engineering and math.
They’re not exactly words that inspire raucous excitement, but with a shortage of qualified workers in Southern Nevada frustrating attempts to attract and grow high-tech businesses, many community leaders aren’t talking about much else.
This week it was UNLV’s turn with their annual STEM Summit. Around 250 people from the university and beyond gathered Monday and Tuesday to discuss this year’s question: “What does the valley need?”
In UNLV vice provost and summit organizer Carl Reiber's take, these were the issues panelists considered most important:
PHOENIX — A report painted a bright economic picture for both the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas.
Brookings Mountain West and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas looked at 10 major metro areas of the Mountain West, which, as a group, outperformed the national economy during the third quarter of 2014.
Phoenix topped a list of major metropolitan areas across the U.S. Mountain West for regional job growth in the third quarter of 2014.
The metro area's 1.1 percent gain was more than double the national average – but about half the normal post-recession rate – which was good enough to place it atop the Brookings Mountain West Monitor, an economic review published with University of Nevada Las Vegas.
It’s far from the boom of the past, but moving vans are coming to Nevada in greater numbers these days — and retirees are leading the trend.
In academia, plagiarism is considered high crime.
But what if the culprit comes from the agency that oversees higher education in the state?
Documents show Frank Woodbeck, executive director of the College Collaborative with the Nevada System of Higher Education, copied large sections of a Brookings Mountain West report draft to create a competitive grant.
As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., I take great pride in the quality of the independent research the world's No. 1 think tank produces.
In the wake of plagiarism allegations, the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education is rolling out a revised explanation.
Southern Nevada lawmakers and leaders may disagree sharply along party lines, but there’s one point on which many of them are in lockstep.
A 10% increase in gasoline prices can shift the relative value of homes over a range approximately 2.5%, with some property values including some close to the cit centre rising as gasoline prices increase, while some home values in city outskirts falling outward, according to a new study by Brookings Institution Fellow Adele Morris and Associate Dean at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Helen Neill.
Nevada’s success in convincing Tesla Motors to locate its new lithium-ion battery gigafactory in Storey County made headlines this fall, as did the $1.3 billion incentive package state legislators authorized. This mixture of tax abatements, infrastructure investments and other incentives stands as the largest in Nevada’s history.
Nearly seven years after the start of the Great Recession, the Las Vegas economy is looking up.
Just as Tesla Motor’s lithium battery factory was attracted to Northern Nevada in part by a lucrative package of tax benefits, John Lee is trying to work similar magic in luring industry to Southern Nevada’s sleeping giant, the mostly undeveloped Apex industrial site alongside Interstate 15, 25 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
There is no easy solution to aligning Nevada’s education system with the state’s workforce needs.
In 2012, still reeling from job losses in tourism and gaming and a housing market crash, the state of Nevada adopted its first ever economic diversification plan.
It’s no secret in the Las Vegas technology scene: It’s difficult to find qualified candidates for top engineering jobs. That was confirmed in a Metropolitan Policy Program and Brookings Mountain West study released today titled, “Cracking the Code on STEM: A People Strategy for Nevada’s Economy."
Nevada has the STEM jobs, but many Nevadans don’t have the skill or education to land them. That’s the conclusion of a Metropolitan Policy Program and Brookings Mountain West study, being released today, titled “Cracking the Code on STEM: A People Strategy for Nevada’s Economy.”
How do you get ahead of the state’s shortage of qualified STEM workers? Insiders say there are two key ingredients: marketing and better education.
Damien Patton has big plans for his Las Vegas operation.
The founder and CEO of Banjo, a company that develops social-media apps, opened an office here in 2013 to go with the Silicon Valley branch he launched in 2011. His goal: To build two locations with 80 to 90 workers each, with as many as 30 engineers in Las Vegas alone.
Any discussion about the need for a medical school at UNLV should include the financial implications — not the cost of the facility but how it will generate private and federal money that will benefit the region.
Two weeks before the election, early voting began in Nevada. More than 20 political organizers filed in to a room at the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, one of the state’s most powerful labor groups. The union represents more than 55,000 casino and hotel workers, from housekeepers and cocktail waitresses to cooks and doormen — more than half of them Hispanic.
North Las Vegas didn’t win the battle for Tesla, but the legislation that made the battery gigafactory possible holds the answer to North Las Vegas’ financial problem, according to the city’s mayor.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee announced Tuesday the city will be taking advantage of the same legislation used to lure the electric car company Tesla to northern Nevada.
North Las Vegas has big plans for the 7,000 acre Apex Industrial Park north of the city that could create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact.
Most of the young people that go to college go away, and then they don't come back," says Lee Bianchi, a retired engineer who lived in Clinton, Iowa (pop. 26,647), from 1961 to 2008.