Young artists brought their vision to life on the largest screen in Las Vegas. The Sphere XO Student Design Challenge invited 30 UNLV students and 30 CCSD high schoolers for art training events. Selected artists used a VR headset pre-loaded with XO Creator to design artwork on the Exosphere, the Sphere's 580,000 square-foot LED exterior.

Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman performed there. Gladys Knight and Wayne Newton had residencies in its theatre. Magicians Siegfried & Roy made their Las Vegas debut there. And James Bond checked into room 831 after saying, “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable” in the movie “Diamonds are Forever.”

Yazmin Martinez, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was recognized as the 2023 doctoral student of the year by the Pacific Southwest Region University Center for her innovative research methods and achievements.

In recent years, millions of people across the United States have moved from Democratic cities to Republican suburbs, complicating the politics of swing states in a pivotal election year, according to a Stateline analysis.

There are over 53 million caregivers in the United States, possibly closer to 60 million. These caregivers are of all ages—nearly half are millennials or younger—and the people they care for come in all varieties. In spite of this, caregivers, and those they care for, are something of an invisible group. They are subjected to stereotypes of what a caregiver is, or who receives care, and they often feel alone. For these reasons, it’s important that caregivers also take care of themselves.

Let the competition begin! On Tuesday, Sphere officials held kick-off training events for students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Clark County School District as they begin designing art submissions, which could be featured on the Exosphere.

The U.S. Secretaries of Education and Labor visited Reno on Wednesday to highlight the Biden Administration's efforts to expand high-quality and affordable pathways to teaching, as well as increasing pay and strengthening working conditions across early childhood, K-12, and higher education.

Developers for a new potential hotel on the Las Vegas Strip aim to solve an ongoing problem for Jewish tourists and professional convention-goers to the Silver State.

UNLV’s Lee Business School will induct Caesars Entertainment board member Jan Jones Blackhurst, MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame on Thursday at the Four Seasons Hotel.