In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
As enterprise teams enter a new era of digital transformation powered by agentic AI, a major challenge remains: transitioning going from pilot to production.

It’s a big day on campus as UNLV’s College of Engineering celebrates the 25th anniversary of its senior design competition. More than 40 student teams will present their innovations to industry judges, who will score each project on innovation, commercial potential, sustainability, engineering quality, and presentation. And for the first time, the public can vote for their favorite project between 1 and 5 pm.

UNLV engineering students presented projects to industry leaders.

More than 60 people have died on Las Vegas valley roads while in or crossing streets, leading road safety advocates to once again sound the alarm.

A program at UNLV is working with Las Vegas Valley high schools to recruit future technology experts as demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to grow.

Clark County and PedSafe Vegas hosted a World Day of Remembrance Ceremony in the rotunda of the Clark County Government Center on Monday from 5 to 6 p.m. The ceremony honored those who have lost their lives or been impacted by roadway crashes.

Six Las Vegas Valley pedestrians have been struck and killed since Nov. 1, and safety advocates warn about the dangers on our roads with shrinking daylight hours. The warning comes after the latest crash involving a child: on Monday at 4:38 p.m. police said an 11-year-old girl was badly hurt crossing Lake Mead Blvd. by Pecos Road. Police said the girl was outside a marked crosswalk.

An analysis of video taken from inside a Las Vegas school bus that struck and killed a 12-year-old girl shows the crash was preventable and several things could’ve been done leading up to the deadly crash, including enforcing the law of not allowing vehicles to park in bike lanes.
The major ransomware attack against Nevada discovered in late August has been underway since May, The Associated Press reports. Injection of a clandestine backdoor facilitated by a Nevada state employee's accidental download of a malicious system admin tool on May 14 allowed threat actors to create encrypted tunnels, conduct lateral movement, and infiltrate the state's password vault server by August, according to a post-mortem report from the state.

State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.

State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.

The “threat actor” who conducted a ransomware attack on the state of Nevada was in the government’s computer systems as early as three months before, the state revealed in an after-action report released Wednesday.