Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to its crystal lattice’s hexagonal nature. But there is so much more to ice than that.

A selling point of poetry is that it expands the ways we can access some of life’s most vital truths. For poet and longtime UNLV professor Claudia Keelan, poetry is an art of continual present-tense attention to the world, in its largest and smallest movements — you never know what detail will yield a new insight. April being National Poetry Month is our pretext for interviewing Keelan, but the calendar is beside the point. As she notes, “any second can produce a poem.”

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or variation of mood with change in season, especially during months with reduced daylight, is a well-recognized condition that adversely affects the mental health and well-being of many people. It was first described in 1984 and is now classified as a distinct disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), and related to major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.

The Rebel Recycling Center on UNLV Campus is celebrating its 30th anniversary and marking the milestone with a $30,000 fundraising campaign to expand the "All in the Hall" program.

The DJ Essentials Course led by Kelly Webb is part of UNLV Lifelong Learning, the university’s central hub for career-building programs, personal enrichment, and community-focused education.

Whether it’s due to objections over the current political climate in the United States or a sagging Canadian dollar, Las Vegas has been feeling a blunt impact as visitors from Canada are choosing to travel elsewhere.

More than 2,400 Americans have contracted measles since January of last year — a 25-year record, according to Johns Hopkins University. That means the country is poised to lose its measles "elimination status," which it's held since 2000. So, going into 2026, can Nevada continue to avoid the large outbreaks hitting neighboring states?

Nevada launched the second round of funding for a loan forgiveness program this week designed to bring more healthcare professionals to underserved areas across the state.

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus already spreading rapidly through U.S. hospitals is becoming even more threatening worldwide and a UNLV professor is making sense of the risk.