Six scholars have been selected to complete residencies at UNLV Special Collections as part of its Gaming Research Fellows Program for the 2012-2013 academic year. More than two dozen fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2007.

A new book by the director of the UNLV Center for Gaming Research takes the reader through gambling’s historic timeline, from the earliest origins of using bones for dice up to the development of the high-tech resort casinos of today.