The Black Mountain Institute (BMI) at UNLV presents the following events as part of its Readings & Panels Series.

Alumnus Andrew Kiraly finds his hometown a ripe literary subject. And he hopes fellow writers will join him.

Alumnus Maile Chapman's first novel, "Your Presence Is Requested At Suvanto" has been featured in The New York Times' Sunday Book Review, The New Yorker, and Publishers Weekly.

Uwem Akpan, Daniel Brook and Mary-Ann Tirone Smith Each Receive $50,000 To Pursue Literary Work During Nine-Month Stay at UNLV

Anthropology professor Peter Gray explores the evolution of fatherhood in new book.

History professor Eugene Moehring is a respected scholar on urban history issues and the West. But the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award recipient says the students are still the most important part of the research equation.

Like religion, sociologist Michael Ian Borer says, baseball and Fenway Park give Bostonians something larger than themselves to believe in, "something that transcends the here and now."