Congratulations to UNLV’s Alex Stopa, who teaches History of Rock and Roll, and Sam Friend, audio engineer for the School of Music, on their Emmy Award-winning collaboration on Pale Blue Dot. Stopa’s original composition received four Emmy nominations and earned two awards: Outstanding Music Composition and Outstanding Audio Recording,…
The Virginia Theatre Festival kicked off its 52nd season by showcasing the literary world’s most famous detective as you have never seen him before in Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure, performed in the Ruth Caplin Theatre from June 20-28, and UNLV Assistant Professor Christina Watanabe was the lighting designer! Photo credits: Xavier Markey-Smith as…
Jung-Hwa Kim (UNLV Architecture) has been named the recipient of the 2027 President's Public Purpose 'Community Needs Event' Grant for the Learning from Las Vegas: Jack W. Zunino and Xeriscapes partnership with the Nevada Chapter of The American Society of Landscape Architects. The partnerships represented by this year’s applications demonstrate strong alignment with the Carnegie Foundation for…
UNLV Professor Steffen Lehmann was invited to contribute a chapter to an annual report by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan, Italy's oldest and most prestigious think tank (founded in 1934, affiliated with Bocconi University), which he co-authored with UNLV graduate researcher Shiva Manshour. The chapter entitled "Smart Cities as Drivers of…
The Cullen Skink Rag, out now, is a musical ragtime composition paying tribute to and inspired by the Scottish culinary favorite Cullen Skink, a seafood chowder born of the Scottish coastal town of Cullen. The Cullen Skink Rag is composed by Anthony LaBounty (UNLV Music) who encountered the chowder on his first visit to Scotland in Summer 2025. ‘Skink’ is a Scottish slang term…
The UNLV School of Cinematic Arts 'At the Movies' summer screening series is free and open to the public. Each screening begins at 6:30 p.m. in FDH 109 with a brief introduction that offers context and insight into the film, often followed by a lively discussion. But above all, this is a chance to experience great cinema the way it was meant to be seen - on the big screen, with a community of…
Graphic Design Bootcamp is a 12-day intensive program that introduces students to the principles, history, and real-world applications of graphic design. Students will learn why and how graphic design is used as they create their own projects with industry-standard software. Topics include photo and image editing, vector illustration, basic typography and typesetting, and print and publication…
Students from the UNLV School of Cinematic Arts (UNLV Film) earned six honors at the 2026 Pacific Southwest Student Emmy Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in directing, fiction, animation, public service, and photography. The award-winning projects highlight the creativity and professional-level storytelling emerging from UNLV’s film program across multiple disciplines and genres. The…