- Welcome to the New Year: 'The Importance of Moving Forward' - A Message from Dean Nancy UscherDearest Friends and Colleagues: At the end of the fall 2023 semester, on December 6, 2023, our beloved university, UNLV, was dealt a devastating blow, a tragic event we could never have imagined happening, as we were poised to end the semester. As we all know firsthand, an active shooter on our campus viciously murdered three esteemed faculty colleagues and seriously injured a fourth victim.…
- Fall 2023 Welcome Message from Dean Nancy J. UscherDear College of Fine Arts Colleagues: It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you back to campus for the 2023-24 academic year and a new chapter of life for all of us! This is always a hopeful and meaningful time of new beginnings for our students, faculty and staff. This fall, in particular, the college is approaching the future with significant accomplishments that have taken place over the…
- CFA Around the World: CFACoLab Receives Five-Star Review in Scotsman NewspaperJosephine Balfour-Oatts has given CFACoLab's IS IT ART? a five-star review in the Scotsman newspaper! She writes: "Nine characters. One gallery. An empty pedestal. Two questions: is it the greatest work in the history of art? Or is it nothing at all? Devised by CFACoLab - a collective of actors, dancers, composers, visual artists and designers - Is…
- UNLV College of Fine Arts Promotes 'Around the World' InitiativeThe College of Fine Arts Around the World initiative is a powerful example of the way in which the CFA embeds and integrates global experiences into the education we offer to students. This is no ordinary travel abroad program, but rather it provides a robust opportunity for students to make original art and perform throughout the world to better understand it. Through this experiential learning…
- UNLV EED Program Featured in Japan’s 'Weird Science of the World'The new book Weird Science of the World by Japanese author Anna Ikarashi features interviews with Entertainment Engineering and Design (EED) professors Dr. Si Jung Kim and Michael Genova. The interview delves into the future of entertainment technology and the UNLV EED program. Congratulations!
- Briefcase Arcade - Entertainment Engineering and Design - Student Project ShowcaseStudent - John Pedersen Year built - Fall 2020 Class - EED 220: Design for Live Entertainment Project Title - Briefcase Arcade Work time - 40 hours design time, 20 hours cutting time, 15 hours 3d printing, 25 hours assembly time. Budget - $100 The project assignment was to utilize a provided raspberry pi zero to build some kind of multimedia station. The proposed design was…
- EED Wins big at CESBeasley Media Group and UNLV announced the winners of the inaugural Media Innovation Hackathon at CES 2019 The Second Place Prize in the contest went to: Augmented Reality (AR) Headset for Tourism Award: $2,500 Team: Aldair Callejas (entertainment engineering and design), Peter Hernandez (computer science), and Edison Smith (biology) Faculty mentor: Si "SJ" Kim (…
- The Nevada State Museum welcomed a new donations box built by Entertainment Engineering and Design students at UNLVThe Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas on Friday (Feb. 16) welcomed a new donations box depicting a three-dimensional model of the state fossil – the ichthyosaur – that was designed and built by Entertainment Engineering and Design students at UNLV. The box features several tracks so that donors can race coins past the ichthyosaur into a tank below. The Greek name translates to “fish lizard…