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Friday marks one year since the mass shooting on the UNLV campus that claimed the lives of three professors and seriously injured a fourth. As part of planned remembrance of events on campus, a student-led project one year in the making will be on display for the first time.
What began as a small initiative by a few students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has grown into an international art project involving 4,000 origami cranes. Students are currently assembling the final pieces, which will be displayed in four frames, each containing 1,000 cranes. The red cranes will spell out "UNLV."
UNLV is a step closer to no longer owning and maintaining Sam Boyd Stadium, former home of Rebels football. Clark County’s acquisition of the 69-acre Sam Boyd site from UNLV for a $5 million fee was unanimously approved Wednesday by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents.
How do you like your eggs? At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, that was a question asked not by food service staff, but by a robot. When conference attendees responded, the robot cracked an egg and made it just how they liked.
Compilation of art at UNLV created in honor of the victims in the UNLV December 6th. shooting.
I don’t know if they meant it this way, but the curators of Viva Las Vegas were smart to position Mary Warner’s 2008 oil painting “Vegas World” as the first thing you see when you enter UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery. Lushly rendered and utterly gorgeous, it depicts a local neighborhood streetscape at sunset, the old Vegas World casino lit up in the distance.
The incoming presidential administration led a campaign that promised mass deportations. As the nation’s leader in mixed-status families, what does that mean for the portion of Las Vegas immigrants still working on their U.S. citizenship? Co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Michael Kagan, law professor and director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, about how the current and possible future of immigration policy will impact everyone living in Las Vegas, and what residents can do to be prepared.
Cowboy boots epitomize America’s approach to style. From the flat rubber-soled option yanked on in the predawn hours of a long shift to the couture-adjacent styles headed to a televised red carpet, the origins of cowboy boots “are incredibly practical,” says Deirdre Clemente, the associate director of UNLV’s public history program.
If you’re thinking about going up to Mt. Charleston to cut your own Christmas tree, think again. It’s illegal. And if you think everyone knows that, keep in mind that an estimated 115 people move to Clark County every day. That’s according to UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research.