Independent filmmaker Stan Armstrong is once again telling an intriguing story from the heart of the real Las Vegas.

The graduation rates for UNLV's athletes improved over the previous year.

In today’s society, it is easy to become overwhelmed by work demands, family responsibilities, children’s activities, and other obligations. Parents and children often find themselves stressed out and overscheduled, leaving little time to be together. With the many demands on our time, family relationships often take a back seat, and children end up getting only the leftovers of parents’ time. Carving out time for family takes some effort, but it is crucial to maintaining a healthy and happy family.

The topic of toddlers and technology elicits a wide array of opinions. Some see the use of digital devices as a ploy by parents to keep their children quiet, while others believe they help children to learn and expand their creativity.

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.