A gaming executive has committed over $1 million to help launch a new career development program at UNLV for women student-athletes. Paragon Gaming CEO Diana Bennett's donation will go toward creating the new initiative, which is set to launch this coming fall semester, UNLV announced Wednesday.
UNLV united the Las Vegas community for a weekend of family fun. The university kicked off a variety of events on Saturday to give back to those in need and celebrate its many students. Staff and student-athletes joined forces for the Build a Bed Project. The partnership with "Sleep in Heavenly Peace" helped provide beds for over 4,000 underprivileged kids in Clark County and enforced their motto of "No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in our Town."
The resources include a mental health reimbursement program.
The building will have full-time security this fall following a campus shooting.
UNLV President Keith Whitfield honored the officers who responded to the Dec. 6 deadly campus shooting. Detective Nate Drum and Officer Damian Garcia were recognized for their heroic actions when a gunman fatally shot three professors and injured a fourth on campus.
UNLV held a town hall on Monday to update university staff members, students, and the public on recovery efforts since the shooting last December. UNLV President Dr. Keith Whitfield started the town hall by recognizing the officers who helped stop the shooter on Dec. 6, 2023. Those two officers were Detective Nathaniel Drum and Officer Damian Garcia of the University Police Department.
UNLV will reopen the classroom complex where an active shooter last December killed three professors and wounded another, officials said today. Beam Hall, which has been closed for repairs since the tragedy, will hold about 160 classes in the fall, Provost Chris Heavey said during a meeting updating university leaders on the campus recovery following the Dec. 6., 2023 shooting.
Bill Hornbuckle remembers being a community college student in Connecticut when he saw a commercial advertising UNLV’s hospitality college during a broadcast of a UNLV basketball game. Only two months later, he moved to Las Vegas with friends and $22 in his pocket, soon walking onto UNLV’s campus as a business major and working on the Strip at night.
Faster bus service along a redesigned Maryland Parkway corridor got a big boost Monday with the announcement of a federal grant worth almost $150 million.
A $150 million federal grant announced Monday will help kickstart construction of a long-planned bus rapid transit line along Maryland Parkway into downtown Las Vegas.
A planned $5 billion medical campus in North Las Vegas is coming back under the direction of city government two years after the project was announced.
UNLV announced on Tuesday that the building where four people were shot last December will be reopening for the upcoming fall semester.