The Nevada Safety Consultation and Training Section (SCATS) of the State of Nevada’s Division of Industrial Relations and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering partnered to bring basic worksite safety education to senior undergraduate students during two courses held Feb. 15 and Feb. 22, 2024. Established in 2015, the partnership has provided education on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety basics to about 130 UNLV engineering students pursuing undergraduate degrees.

The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation is creating more opportunities for underrepresented workers through a $500,000 subgrant to UNLV to fund the Leaderverse Initiative. This funding was made available by the Department of Labor under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and is distributed to the Leaderverse Initiative through the UNLV Office of Sponsored Programs. The initiative promotes diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, gaming and tourism industries at the K-12, university, and industry levels.

UNLV football is in the game. The long-awaited reboot of EA Sports’ college football video game series is expected to be released this summer, and the Rebels will be among the schools included.

In the past, when Taiwan was included in Western academia, it was often treated as a footnote within broader fields of study, such as East Asia or China studies. But now, that’s beginning to change.

The Presidential election of 1860 is one we Americans know well. That election sent Abraham Lincoln to the White House, southern enslavers to the exit door, and the United States into a bloody Civil War. Lincoln’s leadership in those years and his tragic assassination in the last days of the war propelled the railsplitter into the pantheon of American Presidents.

Nearly a century ago, a towering wall of concrete and steel slowly filled Nevada’s Black Canyon. Behind it pooled millions of gallons of water, stopped in their downstream flow by the newly constructed Hoover Dam. A tremendous feat of human engineering, the dam reshaped not only the canyon but the face of the American West.

What’s Cool At School? How about hundreds of high school jazz students from around the western U-S at UNLV.

A survey reveals what the Nevada school experience looks like for LGBTQ+ students.

Have you been running with arch pain, thinking it’s not a big deal? Well take a pause, because that aching could be plantar fasciitis–which is a big deal when ignored. Plantar fasciitis occurs when the fascia, aka your foot arch, gets inflamed from the accumulation of stress overtime.