Red lanterns
Arts and Culture |

Huajing Maske, director of the UNLV Sands Institute for Chinese Language and Culture, breaks down the traditions, symbolism behind the Year of the Fire Horse celebrations.
 

two photo collage of woman in classroom reading to students and book cover of "Where Do the Sugar Bugs Hide?"
Business and Community |

Through storytelling, Dr. Himali Patel Bhatt helps children build healthy brushing habits.

Jenny Kent working with a prosthetics patient walking on a treadmill
People |

A career transition changed this physical therapy professor’s life. The challenge she sought for herself has paid off.

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Arts and Culture |

Shorts: The Worker — where everyday lives, unseen battles, and quiet triumphs take center stage.

UNLV Experts In The News

The Nevada Independent

The decline resulted in a drop in contributions from the cannabis industry to the State Education Fund.

Fox News

After years of backing the legalization of marijuana in the U.S., The New York Times changed course in an editorial published Tuesday.

Nevada Current

Nevada has not seen the barrage of armed federal officers carrying out immigration enforcement that other cities have seen, but immigration arrests in the state increased drastically last year, with at least 2,155 detained in the first 10 months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

small business with open sign
Research |

New analysis by UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research shows that 40 percent of Nevada’s employer firms were created after COVID-19 as new entrepreneurs reshaped the state’s recovery.
 

the las vegas sphere with words that say xo student design challenge
Arts and Culture |

Public can vote daily to select Las Vegas-based student winners to have their art featured on Sphere's Exosphere in celebration of Pi Day.

musicians on stage celebrating Lunar New Year
Arts and Culture |

Now in its fourth year, this large-scale annual event has become a signature cultural celebration in Las Vegas, bringing together music, movement, and cross-cultural dialogue on one stage.

A closeup of a football between a football player's hands.
Campus News |

When stadiums, Super Bowls, Swifties, and superfans become your case studies.

Campus light pole with UNLV banner
Research |

New research shows PTSD symptoms and pain can trigger one another in the first few weeks after sexual assault.

Recent Accomplishments

Dr. Vishisht Mehta (Medicine) and his colleague Dr. Sameer K Avasarala published their original research titled, "Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Among Pulmonologists," in the European Respiratory Journal Open Research. This paper reflects the results of their survey of pulmonologists assessing their familiarity, comfort and usage of…
Mayumi Ajioka, Ph.D., (World Languages and Cultures), co-presenting with Yumiko Kawanishi, Ph.D., (UCLA), presented a practice-oriented paper titled, “A Path to Confident Conversation Participants Using PBI Class Activities,” at the 2025 ACTFL Convention in New Orleans on Nov. 21, 2025. The presentation introduced practical classroom activities…
Lung-Chang Chien, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article titled, “Tracking COVID-19 vaccination barriers over time: a census-tract-level barrier index approach,” in the journal Epidemiology and Infection. This study developed a dynamic, census-tract-…
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