Molasky Family Gift Names Lee Business School's Department of Economics and Real Estate
UNLV’s first named academic department honors the Molasky family’s decades-long connection to the university; reflects investment in students, faculty, and region's future.
With a passion for helping people, psychiatry residents Dr. Anirudh Singh and Dr. Joel Jimenez Vargas value human connection while serving the Las Vegas community.
UNLV education and fine arts students collaborate to create hands-on learning experiences for preschoolers — and discover new ways to bring subjects together.
Revamp of busy Las Vegas interchange appears ready to surface
Up and down and up again. This isn’t describing the stock market — it’s the many long-discussed ways planners have considered revamping the Tropicana Avenue/University Center Drive intersection. But after eight years of planning, multiple revisions and continued dialogue between Clark County and UNLV officials, it appears an agreed-upon project is ready to inch closer to construction.
UNLV students use science to reduce wildfire risk for Las Vegas wetlands
When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.
The Engle family's love for UNLV runs so deep they named their terrier-poodle mix Rebel. Now, they're helping the next generation of Honors College students unleash their potential.
Leah Chan Grinvald (Law) served as a breakout session facilitator for "Helpful Navigation Strategies for External Deans" at the 2026 ABA-AALS Deans' Week.
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—especially stomatal regulation, photosynthetic…
Bradley Marianno and Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education and the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) received a $1 million dollar federal grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (Department of Education) to continue their study of Nevada's Pupil-Centered Funding Plan, the state's formula for…
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