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UNLV Newsmakers 2026: May

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Students going into the morning undergraduate commencement 2026 (Josh Hawkins/UNLV).

May is the payoff for countless late nights full of study (and stress), as several thousand students became the newest UNLV graduates. Across a variety of career disciplines, their numerous skill sets will be responsible for the future of our nation… and eventually answering the many questions of Newsmakers.

What germs are living in your kitchen rags? Are you looking for some foolproof ways to keep pigeons out of your yard? What are the best ways for parents to disconnect after putting the kids to bed? Is there any hope for the modern-day ghost town Primm to experience a comeback?

For a more comprehensive listing of the articles featuring UNLV experts, check out our frequently updated In The News page. But before then, here are some of the most prominent stories from the past month.

Health & Science

Culture & Technology

  • Wired covered the content left behind from sex workers leaving the industry with insights from gender and sexuality professor Lynn Comella. She also provided insight into a New York Times story on the prominence of sex work in recent TV shows.
  • Sport management professor Nancy Lough comments on the steady popularity of women’s sports — and growing support from female investors — in The Christian Science Monitor.
  • Architecture professor Glenn N.P. Nowak spoke of the unique concert opportunities afforded by Las Vegas’ Sphere in the LAist.
  • Physicist Michael Pravica’s research into regenerating the capacity of lithium ion batteries with X-rays was covered in the Las Vegas Sun, Hackster and TechXplore.
  • UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute, along with director Riana Durrett, appeared in several publications concerning federal scheduling changes and the push for wider marijuana access on the Strip, including in KNPR, CDC Gaming (twice), and UPI.
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Graduate commencement 2026 (Josh Hawkins/UNLV).

Politics & Economics

  • Tourism researcher Marta Soligo appeared in a story from the Associated Press about scaling back Memorial Day travel due to gas prices. She also spoke to Vegas Inc. about large-scale music artists driving a new tourism stream to the region.
  • News Nation consulted hospitality professor Amanda Belarmino regarding all-inclusive packages intended to boost tourism in Las Vegas.
  • The Las Vegas Review-Journal was joined by real estate researcher Shawn McCoy for an article about the volatile housing market.

Experts Roundup

Topics:

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Campus Units:

Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV,  Department of Brain Health,  School of Public Health,  School of Integrated Health Sciences,  Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences,  College of Sciences,  School of Life Sciences,  Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies,  College of Liberal Arts,  College of Fine Arts,  School of Architecture,  Department of History,  Lied Center for Real Estate,  Lee Business School,  College of Education,  Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education,  Honors College,  Office of the University Ombuds,  William F. Harrah College of Hospitality,  Department of Physics and Astronomy,  Cannabis Policy Institute at UNLV,  Department of Psychology

Related Experts:

Amanda Belarmino ,  Dan Bubb ,  Lynn Comella ,  Samantha Coogan ,  Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings ,  Riana Durrett ,  Michael Green ,  Brian Hedlund ,  Nancy Lough ,  Shawn McCoy ,  Glenn NP Nowak ,  Edwin Oh ,  Michael Pravica ,  Donald K. Price ,  David G. Schwartz ,  Manoj Sharma ,  Nicole Short ,  Marta Soligo ,  Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng

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