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UNLV History |

What ties this year's honorees together? A strong sense of gratitude for the unique experiences they had as students and community connections they've made through UNLV.

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Arts and Culture |

Students will gain valuable experience in the independent film and television industry.

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Arts and Culture |

When Sam and Jess shoot the latest episode of their hit paranormal investigation show "A Skeptic and a Bruja," they are thrown for a loop when their crew member sees a ghost.

Taras Krysa, on a podium with his hands and baton raised, conducts the full UNLV Symphony Orchestra (performers and instruements are displayed in the image).
Arts and Culture |

Outstanding local violin virtuoso DeAnne Letourneau performs solo in two of the evening’s most thrilling pieces.

UNLV Experts In The News

U.S.A. Today

Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.

U.S.A. Today

Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.

U.S.A. Today

Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.

UNLV alumna Aileen Pastor relaxes on a park bench on campus with her feet up
People |

Urban Affairs Alumna of the Year — and die-hard Rebel — Aileen Pastor parlays her internship into a career with the Regional Transportation Commission.

Kim Trevino poses in the Black Mountain Institute library with stack of books from past and present book club meetings
Arts and Culture |

To bring the Latinx community together, Kim Trevino opens a new chapter on a Latinx book club.

UNLV School of Nursing professor Janice Enriquez poses in an empty exam room.
People |

Whether in a UNLV classroom, the exam room or out in the community, the Nursing Alumna of the Year fulfills her promises.

A pipette distributing samples into small test tubes in a research lab.
Campus News |

New structure aimed at improving compliance oversight and customer service. 

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Campus News |

Let your voice be heard and help us choose the "I Voted" sticker for UNLV.

Recent Accomplishments

Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Guitar class: An opportunity for transformative music education at the National Association for Music education 2024 biannual music research and teacher education conference. 
Scholars working on research at the International Gaming Institute presented four posters at the 25th annual International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG) Conference on Sunday, October 6, 2024.  Samantha Wells (Learning & Technology) presented her work on using LLM-based chatbots for supporting responsible gambling education.…
Sarah Wolff, Jonathan Hilpert, Vanessa Vongkulluksn (all (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and their colleagues at UNC published a paper in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement." This paper uses the random-intercept cross-…
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