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Current Business News
Accounting lecturer Tammy Perri brings regulatory realities from the world's largest poker tournament to her classroom.
The top headlines featuring UNLV’s staff and students.
The program, which is now accepting applications for the fall, prepares students for an industry experiencing record demand.
The second place winner of the 2024 Classified Employee of the Year award winner goes the extra mile to make UNLV a better place.
This two-time Classified Employee of the Year award winner keeps the dean's office at Lee Business School in shipshape.
Foundation’s generous $735,000 donation will offset tuition for first cohort of new UNLV bachelor’s degree in insurance and risk management, which will launch this fall.
Business In The News
An economist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas expressed concern about Las Vegas gaming and tourism for the rest of the year and the start of 2026.
Keep your powder dry. That’s the midyear ominous message or warning to Southern Nevada businesses from UNLV Economist Stephen Miller over concerns that show the school’s Center for Business and Economic Research Leading Index for Nevada has fallen 0.9 percent month over month and is down for the year.
On Monday, June 23, a crowd of about 2,000 people surrounded the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet had come for a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association. “Not for sale!” the crowd boomed. “Not one acre!” There were ranchers and writers in attendance, as well as employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory, all of whom use public land to hike, hunt and fish. Inside the hotel ballroom where the governors had gathered, Michelle Lujan Grisham, the New Mexico governor, apologized for the noise but not the message. “New Mexicans are really loud,” she said.
Cybercrime is a threat for many Americans, including small businesses. More than 40% of small businesses were victims of a cyberattack in 2023, according to the SBA. A majority of them won’t survive because of the financial losses.
May was the fifth consecutive month Las Vegas has seen a year-over-year decline in tourism traffic, with visitor volume down 6.5%, per the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
UNLV added a new major called Insurance and Risk Management.
