Division of Research News
UNLV's Division of Research creates a campus environment that supports and promotes superior research, creative, and scholarly pursuits. This ensures that our students and faculty can recognize their full intellectual potential.
Current Research News
The director of UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute helps students get in on the ground floor of a growing industry.
An interdisciplinary team developing a household filtration and distillation unit is ready to advance to onsite pilot testing phase.
The Administrative Faculty of the Year honoree brings nearly a decade of experience to the careful work of protecting participants and guiding responsible progress.
UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute expert explains how two pieces of federal action may impact marijuana research, sales, transport, and consumption in Nevada and beyond.
UNLV-led research team uses wastewater surveillance to suss out C. auris strains with greater precision, paving way for potential new therapeutic development.
Interdisciplinary team will perform computational modeling, experimental design, and develop AI database to identify natural materials for rapid construction in challenging environments.
Research In The News
A UNLV study found streamers and vloggers primarily focus on betting strategy and game mechanics, while responsible gambling messages remain uncommon despite being linked to higher audience engagement.
The project leans into the city’s tradition of bold, themed architecture — joining a landscape that already includes a pyramid, a sphere, an Eiffel Tower, a castle, an 1,100-foot tower and a giant blue Gibson Les Paul guitar built where a volcano once stood.
The federal government rescheduled medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III, but what will that ultimately mean for the future of Nevada’s cannabis industry and could full federal legalization be on the horizon?
AI is one of the main iGaming industry trends in 2026, but adoption is uneven. A report published by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) International Gaming Institute and KPMG found that 81.5% of gambling companies use generative AI, 66.7% use conversational AI, and 60.5% use predictive AI (2026).
On June 29, the federal government will hold a hearing that will help decide whether all marijuana (not just medical cannabis and FDA-approved products) moves to Schedule III. Seven outside parties got a seat in the room. All seven oppose rescheduling. Not one supporter of reform made the list.
The top DEA administrative law judge will once again hear arguments for and against downgrading marijuana's status under federal law, but marijuana rescheduling is not guaranteed.
