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With both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience, UNLV students win national cybersecurity competition.
How a stubborn bird dropping on a campus building helped spark the winning students’ idea for a high-rise window-cleaning drone.
UNLV’s commencement tradition highlights exceptional students who embody the highest level of academic excellence and community involvement.
The institute prepares a stronger cybersecurity workforce and supports local industry needs by expanding hands-on training and interdisciplinary learning.
A scholarship program built around community has graduated 74% of its students and earned a $2 million NSF grant to expand.
Do you know how to use a makerspace? This class will teach you.
Computer Science In The News

Saraah Majid went above and beyond her scholarship requirements to help Opportunity Village's mission to empower, employ, and serve people with disabilities

As demand for data centers continues to grow across the country, Clark County commissioners are preparing to discuss whether Southern Nevada should adopt new standards for future developments before more projects are proposed.

As he walked outside the Thomas & Mack Center after Saturday morning’s UNLV spring commencement ceremony, new graduate Miguel Cerda said he felt pride and a sense of relief.

UNLV says recent data shows the state is filling only about 71% of its open cybersecurity jobs, slightly behind the national average. Through this institute, students get hands-on learning experience combing through vulnerabilities businesses could have when it comes to their cybersecurity.

UNLV says recent data shows the state is filling only about 71% of its open cybersecurity jobs, slightly behind the national average. Through this institute, students get hands-on learning experience combing through vulnerabilities businesses could have when it comes to their cybersecurity.
With so many academic programs for cybersecurity still playing catch-up, the bipartisan, bicameral Cyber Ready Workforce Act would create a grant program to support registered cybersecurity apprenticeships.
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