The holidays are an exciting time filled with family, food, fun, and memory-making. However, it is easy to get overwhelmed during this time of year with turkeys to stuff, homes to decorate, and gifts to buy. Finances may be tight, and there never seems to be enough time to fit everything in: school concerts, office parties, and the drive “over the river and through the woods” to visit family. Of course, none of these things are inherently bad, but the cumulative effect may leave families exhausted, stressed, and a bit cranky/grouchy/irritable.

For most people, the first job out of college is getting their feet wet in the real world. But for Hannah Birch, her first gig out of college landed her a Pulitzer Prize.

The tie between sports media and cultural memory is so thick, mention an inning in a post-season baseball game from any decade and it sets a place and time. At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, Alex Kupfer is exploring the idea through materials related to televised World Series of Poker tournaments at the Horseshoe Casino. Kupfer is the first of five Eadington Fellows for the 2015-16 year. His colloquium talk, “The Biggest Game on TV: Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the Nostalgic Construction of Poker’s Past,” takes place November 16 at 3 p.m. in Lied Library’s Goldfield Room. –Kristen Peterson

The Las Vegas Sun checked in last week on the progress of the Midtown UNLV project, a plan to enliven Maryland Parkway with redevelopment that would give the street more of a college-town atmosphere (Think: University Boulevard adjacent to the University of Arizona and Telegraph Avenue near the University of California, Berkeley). The Sun reported ground will soon be broken on the empty lot where the Freakin’ Frog and other businesses once stood, which will become a parking garage with retail space. What would spark the block? We have some ideas.

A University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) start-up is developing a potentially revolutionary technology to prevent infections that commonly occur in chickens raised for food.

Before the Whitney Museum of American Art moved to its new location in Lower Manhattan, it hosted a discussion about what it means for a museum to be a safe and welcoming space.

Each election cycle, venues across the country apply to the Commission on Presidential Debates for a chance at hosting one of three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate.

When the Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority meets later this month to consider awarding a franchise for a system to deliver train passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California, there will be two competitors vying against the favorite, XpressWest.

Five burning questions for when UNLV's football team plays Hawaii at 3 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.