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Current Libraries News
Created by a multidisciplinary team of UNLV students, R.2X Cosmic Expedition takes the campus community beyond the classroom and into the solar system.
University Libraries Alumni of the Year honorees have spent their careers and volunteer work supporting education, libraries, and their Southern Nevada community.
Nearly 160 issues of publication offer researchers a look at the businesses, culture, and connections that shaped the gentlemen’s club industry.
From advancing their professions to improving the lives of others, this year’s honorees are putting their expertise to work in ways that reflect the values and experiences they gained at UNLV.
Howard Hughes’ legacy lives on at UNLV, from artifacts and photographs in the Special Collections & Archives to the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.
Leadership Coaching Essentials helps UNLV employees give colleagues the space and support to self-navigate professional challenges.
Libraries In The News
Research preserved by UNLV Special Collections and Archives documents Abraham Mitchell, one of the early Black settlers in the Las Vegas Valley. Mitchell homesteaded 40 acres in Paradise Valley, where he operated a ranch and grew vegetables to sell in town.
UNLV University Libraries points to the Mirage as a pivotal part of the city’s transformation. Its “Building Las Vegas” project notes that Southern Nevada’s population increased sevenfold between 1970 and 2010, with the Mirage’s 1989 opening pushing Las Vegas’ growth into overdrive.
The community will gather across southern Nevada on Friday to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks that changed the course of the nation.
Veterans and employees gather at New York-New York in Las Vegas.
The shirts, still creased from wherever they’d been folded away for years, were laid out flat on a long table near the replica Statue of Liberty at New York-New York on the Strip.
Thousands of shirts, flags, stuffed animals, and handwritten notes left outside the New York-New York Hotel and Casino after the Sept. 11 attacks are being preserved at UNLV as a lasting tribute to those lost and the people who mourned them.
