Jenna Heath in a black, red, and white dress sits at table with iced coffee
People |

The administrative faculty honoree has built her career around helping students find confidence, direction, and community.

UNLV students introduce the art of play to preschoolers
Campus News |

UNLV education and fine arts students collaborate to create hands-on learning experiences for preschoolers — and discover new ways to bring subjects together.

Engle family in front of Honors College sign
People |

The Engle family's love for UNLV runs so deep they named their terrier-poodle mix Rebel. Now, they're helping the next generation of Honors College students unleash their potential.

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Business and Community |

Community is what ultimately defines the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV's mission and purpose.

UNLV Experts In The News

Las Vegas Review Journal

Up and down and up again. This isn’t describing the stock market — it’s the many long-discussed ways planners have considered revamping the Tropicana Avenue/University Center Drive intersection. But after eight years of planning, multiple revisions and continued dialogue between Clark County and UNLV officials, it appears an agreed-upon project is ready to inch closer to construction.
 

Las Vegas Sun

When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

Eight men from several states, including Nevada, were charged Thursday in connection with what authorities describe as a terror plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in June. Experts say plots like this are becoming more common as social media evolves and bad actors infiltrate online spaces.

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Campus News |

Future elementary teachers turn a class project into a exhibition of art, storytelling, and collaboration at West Las Vegas Library.
 

White male baseball pitcher in a black and white pinstripe Rebels uniform with the No. 20, black stirrup socks and a black baseball cap grips a baseball in his right hand, reaches behind himself and prepares to deliver a pitch
Athletics |

Five former Rebel athletes, a longtime administrator, and a distinguished contributor highlight the 2026 class of inductees.

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Campus News |

With both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience, UNLV students win national cybersecurity competition.

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Campus News |

UNLV Lifelong Learning brings alumni back as community educators in workforce development and personal enrichment courses.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Recent Accomplishments

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to present "Red White and Urgent: The Clinical Warning Signs of Oral Cancer" during the national Academy of General Dentistry annual meeting last month. She discussed the steps of performing a comprehensive oral examination, identified risk factors, highlighted clinical features of oral cancers and…
Jeff Schauer (History) presented work at the European Congress of Conservation Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Based on archival research in the National Archives of Zambia and the Natural History Museum (London), Schauer argued that critical qualitative historical analysis of the processes by which conservationists…
Lori Johnson’s (Law) article, Redefining Roles and Duties of the Transactional Lawyer: A Narrative Approach, was included in the 15th volume of the Legal Writing Institute’s Monograph Series. The new volume explores the intersections of ethics, professional responsibility, social justice, storytelling, and generative artificial intelligence…
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