In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

Las Vegas Review Journal

The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved a land deal with a developer who was convicted of tax fraud more than a decade ago.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has decided against shuttering an Amargosa Valley boarding school after a visit to the facility showed that steps were being taken to ensure students’ safety, a department representative said Monday.

Bloomberg Environment

No one knows whether Tom Brady will get his sixth championship ring this weekend or Jared Goff will get his first, but one thing is certain: Both starting quarterbacks, along with the more than a million people traveling to Atlanta for the Super Bowl, will use the bathroom.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Las Vegas’ brutal summers can sear your skin and cause dehydration or heat exhaustion, sometimes even death.

Las Vegas Sun

A group of UNLV freshmen took home an award at CES this month as part of Beasley Media Group’s inaugural Media Innovation Hackathon.

C4ISRNET

Space is a hostile environment. Most of the hostility is inherent — a void cannot itself be accommodating to humans, and the projects that do sustain human life in orbit do so by creating tiny livable pockets, encased in proverbial tin cans. That space could be a vector for other threats became clear from the dawn of the space race.

WNEM-TV

A high school marching band drummer is now rocking out with a 3-D printed hand.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The West Las Vegas Library is filled with customers Thursday night, but there’s hardly a printed page turning.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Their assignment was to come up with a solution to a real-world problem.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The Henderson City Council is expected to proclaim Nov. 20 as Hailey Dawson Day.

Las Vegas Review Journal

When Maria Gerardi met Hailey Dawson while looking for an engineering project to help with her UNLV graduate school thesis, she knew she had picked the right career.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

With her 3-D printed hand, she won hearts and the spotlight throwing out the first ball at 30 major league baseball games across the country.