The sudden resignation of University of Nevada, Las Vegas President Dr. Keith Whitfield has left many students and staff surprised. Dr. Whitfield announced his departure on Monday night via social media and followed up with a letter to the university community, explaining his decision to step down to spend more time with his ailing mother and grandson.

Monday evening marked the end of an era for UNLV President Keith Whitfield, who guided the university through good times and bad times, navigating a pandemic and a deadly campus shooting over a year ago.

On Feb. 10, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending the procurement and use of paper straws at federal agencies. It was a stark reversal from the Biden era, in which the former president vowed to remove plastic straws and single-use plastics from federal food service in favor of paper straws, which are thought to be better for the environment.

After leading UNLV through the pandemic and the 2023 on-campus shooting, Keith Whitfield announced late Monday he is stepping down as president effective at the end of that day.

The Sphere Entertainment Co. has announced its Second Annual Sphere XO Student Design Challenge, giving the public another chance to choose what appears on the Las Vegas Sphere. The Sphere partnered with the Clark County School District and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to invite over 100,000 students to create artwork inspired by this year’s Earth Day theme.

A group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) students have painstakingly preserved a photographer’s archive by digitizing it and making it available online to anyone. Six students worked on the project over the course of two to preserve the work of Clinton Wright, a press photographer who documented Black life in the Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas in the 1960s.

UNLV President Dr. Keith Whitfield announced he is stepping down effective Monday. His announcement came at the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner at the Bellagio Monday evening.

Vaccines are one of, if not the, most important developments in public health history, and despite nearly a century of data, some people still doubt their safety and efficacy. Infectious disease experts, however, do not—and if you're 50 years old or older, you're going to want to get certain specific jabs to keep yourself safe from some awful (and awfully contagious) illnesses.

With 146 confirmed cases of measles in the current Texas outbreak, and the first U.S. death from the disease in a decade, you may be wondering whether you actually did get all your childhood vaccinations. These include the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, designed to protect you from the notoriously contagious measles.