UNLV announced Friday that it will become a smoke-free campus on Aug. 15.

UNLV will go smoke-free on Aug. 12, in doing so joining about 2,000 universities across the country.

UNLV is becoming a tobacco-free institution starting Aug. 15, the university announced in a press release on Friday.

If approved, the change would ban smoking — including the use of electronic cigarettes — and tobacco products such as chewing tobacco in all university spaces, both indoors and outdoors. It would apply to students, employees, contractors and vendors, and visitors.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

The UNLV School of Public Health received a $3.4 million state grant to expand its COVID-19 contact tracing program.