Sen. Jacky Rosen joined leaders from local sports teams Wednesday to discuss the role sports play in Las Vegas tourism as the industry faces a slump. UNLV is adding an undergraduate degree in sports hospitality management this fall. The program is meant to address the needs of the valley’s growing sports industry.

The milestone would mark the university’s fourth consecutive year of fall enrollment growth.

As colleges and universities across the nation struggle with declining enrollment and a volatile federal funding landscape under the Trump administration, UNLV is thriving, interim President Chris Heavey told the Sun this month in a wide-ranging interview.

With tens of thousands of students expected back on campus Monday, UNLV is urging commuters to plan ahead for parking lot closures, ongoing construction and a newly launched bus rapid transit line as the fall 2026 semester begins.

The hospital will provide specialty care including oncology, bone marrow transplants and the highest level of neonatal intensive care unit, among other services. Chris Heavey, the interim president of UNLV, said the university's medical school will also be able to partner with Intermountain Health to create new pediatrics residency slots supported by federal funding.

Back-to-school season kicked off with an opening ceremony for the Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus on Wednesday at UNLV. The Marlow campus is an expansion of the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool. The new campus will serve up to 80 additional preschool students and include space for early childhood and special education research.

It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.

More than 50 cannabis industry leaders and subject matter experts helped create the programs and are featured in the courses, which were developed in partnership with the cannabis education company Green Flower.