A UNLV health sciences library has moved to the back burner as officials double-down on fundraising efforts to get an education building for the medical school off the ground.

Marta Meana was sitting down at her desk in her office at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on a recent morning when she opened an email she hadn't been expecting.

In early December, The Wall Street Journal published a feature titled “The Loneliest Generation.”

The University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday joined the list of top research schools in the country, becoming the first institution of higher education in the state to achieve that status.

The Nevada Board of Regents recently announced that all was well with higher education in the state. In particular, it said, the UNLV School of Medicine and UNR School of Medicine were in good health.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine just received $1.1 million in the form of a multi-year grant to study car crash and injury data to achieve a better understanding of how to prevent serious injuries and death.

More and more Californians are calling Nevada home, and Las Vegas has become the 30th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S.

If the Vegas Golden Knights get a shutout Thursday night, ticket holders can get a dozen free donuts from Krispy Kreme.

UNLV is now one of the top research schools in the nation. The university received "R-1" status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which is the highest designation that can be achieved.