Balter-Reitz and her co-author, Michael Bruner, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas Professor of Communication Studies, together round out the class of ten Fellows who will be examining issues impacting democratic exchange and free expression on college campuses. Specifically, Balter-Reitz and Bruner will be assessing the impacts of the FORUM Act on free speech on public universities in the United States.

July 27 marked National Intern Day, a created holiday to recognize and celebrate interns. Super Bowl Host Committee officials add they are currently recruiting for the final round of interns from UNLV that will work the game itself this February.

UNLV and the local broadcasters community are remembering a local Hall of Famer. Local radio broadcaster John Nasshan died at 67 years old. He served as a radio host for KUNV 91.5 at the radio station on the campus of UNLV for many years.

John Nasshan was not finished broadcasting, pounding the drums, or hitting the live-music scene. The Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Famer died late Wednesday night of heart failure in Las Vegas. The 67-year-old Nasshan was about to launch a new show on KUNV 91.5-FM, “The Smooth Jazz Radio Top 20 Countdown.”

An estimated 11 million people across the northeastern US are under flood risks or warnings this week after historic levels of rainfall — 1-in-1,000-year events — swept through New England, with rivers in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley overflowing and turning town streets into waterways.

The structure of our bail system separates people from their families, jobs and community before they may be convicted of a crime. We must assess the inadequacies of our existing bail system and its price for freedom before conviction. Bails should provide an opportunity for qualified individuals awaiting trial to return to their communities. Yet more often than not, excessive bail amounts result in the incarceration of our poorest residents.

On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers continued a time-honored tradition in Wisconsin politics: using a quirky Badger State governing tool to infuriate the opposing party.

In an NIJ podcast, LEADS Scholars from three police departments discuss how they worked with community organizations and used evidence-based policing to reduce gun violence

The criminology conference The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, which is organized annually by the Crime Prevention Council, is one of the foremost of its kind.

Crimes will be significantly fewer if you attack the criminal logistics. This is the opinion of the American criminologist Tamara Herold, who is on a temporary visit to Stockholm.

Sin City offers so much more than vice. Here are five ways to see Las Vegas' many virtues. In other words, if you're a fan of fitness and fun, here's how to go alllll in.

 new approach to serving Las Vegas’ homeless population calls for the construction of a facility that offers comprehensive on-site services needed to rebuild someone’s life such as medical and mental health care providers, job training and more