The topics for next week’s third and final presidential debate at UNLV were announced Wednesday by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

UNLV is partnering with the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to help take humans further into space than ever before.

They don’t call Nevada a battleground state for nothing.

With 30 days left until the election (well, 32, but who’s counting?) the Silver State is anyone’s to win. Candidates in the two biggest-ticket races here — president and U.S. Senate — are statistically tied in the latest polls. Voter data on the state’s two House races are less plentiful, but the outcome of each still hangs in the balance.

It seems like all the American people have been doing lately is arguing. Or standing mute as we have watched a presidential election like no other in our remembered history.

Latino voters have the potential to swing the presidential election and several Senate races in November, but the group’s turnout remains a big question.

For those who wonder how preparations are going at UNLV for the third and final debate on October 19, look no further than the shipping containers that now line the parking lots around Thomas & Mack. They’re just one of the many indicators that the university is serious about ramping up security, namely in the form of canceled classes, traffic impacts and shuttles from satellite parking at the airport that will transport students and faculty to campus. Yet this historic event, happening just three weeks away from the end of the most bizarre election cycle we’ve ever seen, may just play a role in accelerating UNLV toward Tier 1 status.

On Friday afternoon, a law professor went for an afternoon jog in a park near her home, only to become the victim of a savage beating that left her bruised, bloodied, and barely breathing.

Grant a Gift Autism Foundation is opening up a new center in conjunction with UNLV. The UNLV Medicine Ackerman Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Solutions will open Thursday.

UNLV is set to receive up to $5 million to help develop space exploration technology, the university announced today. The deal between the university’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin will last five years, UNLV said in a statement.