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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.
Bite-sized stories of how friendship is a core element of the Rebel experience.
The inaugural event brought together students and industry leaders for competitions and crucial professional development.
This latest initiative from the International Gaming Institute is setting the standard for ethical AI use in the industry.
Computer Science In The News
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.
After the state of Nevada suffered a massive cyber attack that caused major issues across a number of government agencies, UNLV has now set its sights on training students to monitor future potential threats. Last month, the university established the NIC. The goal is training the next generation of IT professionals. It also acts as a hub to serve state industries and government offices, helping them secure their data.
The fear that AI would replace developers has long been dismissed as "vague anxiety." However, in April 2026, a research team at the University of Nevada Las Vegas attached precise numbers to that fear for the first time. The team developed "PatchTrack," a tool that automatically tracks how much code proposed by ChatGPT has been incorporated into actual software, and collected 338 pull requests from 255 actual open-source projects. They then performed patch classification analysis on 285 of these merged requests.
This research was conducted as an international joint research project involving Professor Mingon Kang of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Officials say the tool, which will require human verification, will increase efficiency, but others are worried about its transparency and security.
Nevada legislators passed a sweeping bill, which took effect Nov. 18, to prevent the next state cyberattack. Experts recently explain what the bill means for Nevada’s future online safety.
