World IP Day Workshop, organized by UNLV’s Office of Economic Development will take place Friday, May 6, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at The Innevation Center. Speakers at the event will discuss how intellectual property impacts digital creativity.

Look for the hospitality industry to take a greater interest in hackathons in the months ahead.

Las Vegas Boulevard might be the most recognizable address in the country.

Andre Wilsenach knew very little about the casino industry when, in the 1990s, he was named to a commission examining whether South Africa should legalize gambling.

Perhaps this was on your mind this morning when you were getting ready for work: Pressure-induced Tetrahedral to Orthombic Phase Transition in MgF2.

UNLV says its new International Center for Gaming Regulation is set for review and approval by the state.

Economic development continues to be an important priority for the Silver State. Many factors go into diversification including incentives for businesses, education and workforce training. And, while strides have been made in attracting new industries to the state, there is still a long way to go. Recently, leaders of economic development met at the Las Vegas office of City National Bank to discuss both challenges and opportunities facing Nevada.

It was 34 years ago, in 1981, that the first patients of HIV were identified. Even now, there remain more than 36 million people worldwide living with HIV. In 2014, 1.2 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses. Three UNLV research professors, each manning a different front — from educational memoirs to life-saving baby showers to a possible cure — continue to make headway in this worldwide battle.

For decades after their introduction in the 1960s, commercial supercomputers were considered mysterious oracles of computation, dedicated to solving a small class of numeric problems and reserved for the dedicated use of a single organization or department. Every system was lovingly handmade from esoteric, bespoke processor, I/O and cooling components.

State lawmakers and top university officials attended the opening today of three UNLV offices at data company Switch’s Innevation Center. The center will house portions of UNLV’s economic development office and its research foundation.

Although global microbial populations are orders of magnitude larger than nearly any other population in, on or around the planet, only a fraction has been identified thus far.

After years of declining research spending after the recession, UNLV has increased spending for three straight years and has set an ambitious goal to nearly quadruple that spending in the next 10 years, officials said Friday during a report on UNLV’s research activity.