• Two female students in shorts and red tops make the LV sign with their hands while standing behind a red "U" at the on campus UNLV sculpture

    Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to participate in Rebels Give on March 12. UNLV’s annual daylong fundraiser will feature activities across campus and online.

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Arts and Culture |

Berenice Chávez and Tamiya Nadine worked on the critically acclaimed films with ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ and ‘The Singers’.

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Campus News |

Reddi, an accomplished university administrator and current interim provost at New Mexico State University, will begin as UNLV’s chief academic officer on June 1. 
 

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People |

Frances Young, a UNLV social work alumna and lecturer, turned her own postpartum struggles into a mission to expand mental health support for new parents.

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Arts and Culture |

The winner receives $5,000 and is invited to work with College of Fine Arts students in the fall.

UNLV Experts In The News

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

Could a new kind of blood test find cancer early, even before symptoms appear?

Dallas Morning News

The deportation denied not only the accused his day in court but also denied his victims what was likely their best hope at receiving compensation

K.V.V.U. T.V. Fox 5

Three of the four wrong-way driver alert systems the Nevada Department of Transportation told FOX 5 last year would be installed along the 215 are now in place. The systems are located at the westbound off-ramp at Warm Springs, Las Vegas Boulevard, and Windmill Lane. NDOT said the alert systems are not yet online, pending additional testing.

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UNLV History |

When the original Dickinson Library proved too small for a growing university, a new facility transformed research, study, and campus life.

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People |

Lee Business School alumna Caren Yap brings the value of collective responsibility to her work in national labor rights advocacy.

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Arts and Culture |

The festival brings a full day of vibrant music, culture, and extraordinary performances to the UNLV Performing Arts Center.

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People |

The engineer-turned-rock climber approaches challenges with optimism and a ‘make it happen’ attitude.

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Research |

Faculty and students from the Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Lab help solve missing persons cases.

Recent Accomplishments

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Long-term temperature exposure and depression incidence in the Nurses’ Health Study II, a U.S.-based prospective cohort,” in the journal Environment International, in association with researchers from Harvard, University of California and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.…
Alireza Rezaee, Dr. Asma Tahir, Dr. Mark Buttner, and Dr. Joram Seggev (UNLV Pollen Lab; Public Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of Weed Pollen Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert from 2020-2022," at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) 2026 Conference in Philadelphia on…
Dr. Lina Nih (Medicine) was awarded the Peter G. Kaufman Award for Translational Research at the 2026 UNLV Health Sciences Research Symposium.
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