In The News: College of Liberal Arts
The Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) has tossed the Malaysia-headquartered Genting Group a corporate grenade after it alleged its Resorts World Las Vegas casino on the Las Vegas Strip was a haven for criminal activity.
Independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. will be on Nevada's ballot in November after officially filing with the state this month. He's a longshot to win the White House, polling at around 5% currently. But is that enough to spoil the election for Harris or Trump? Or is the worry about a spoiler overblown? UNLV political science professor Dan Lee joins the podcast this week to talk about how third party and independent candidates have fared in Nevada history - and whether this cycle will be any different.
The abrupt substitution of Kamala Harris for Joe Biden as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee has energized two of the party’s bedrock bases of support – pro-choice women and African Americans – along with millions of young voters who felt dismay at the Hobson’s choice posed by two old white guys in the presidential contest.
The new school year begins Monday morning after summer-long efforts by the Clark County School District to fill classroom vacancies, combat chronic absenteeism and improve school safety.
The Clark County School District (CCSD) Class of 2024-2025 will receive a graduation cap in May, but will also see their grade point averages (GPA) capped this year. Grade point averages will also be capped at 4.95, maximizing the potential number of students in the running to be valedictorian. The first class affected by this change was the Class of 2024, which graduated earlier this year.
It used to be a Las Vegas hot tip: go off the Strip to Chinatown for the city’s best food. Now there is not just one Chinatown in Nevada’s biggest metropolis but two, and a variety of Asian cuisines can be found across the city.
Vice President Kamala Harris was welcomed to the stage at Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus by her VP pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in what was the first glimpse of the Democratic Presidential running mates in the state of Nevada.
The new school year kicks off Monday morning after a summerlong effort by the Clark County School District to fill classroom vacancies, battle chronic absenteeism and improve school safety.
The Clark County School District class of 2024-2025 will be receiving a graduation cap in May, but that’s not the only cap the class is receiving this year. Grade point averages will also be capped for the class at a 4.95, maximizing the potential number of students in the running for valedictorian. The first class to be affected by this change was the class of 2024, who graduated earlier this year.
Maybe people can control time — or their perception of it, anyway. A new paper written by UNLV Professor of Psychology James Hyman and published recently in Current Biology shows that the way people experience time has less to do with the physical hands of a clock, and more to do with the number of experiences in that given period of time.
Inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, unsymbolized thinking. Do we all have the same inner experiences? And how aware are we of what we actually experience from moment to moment?
What did it take for Allie Wilson to make her first Olympic team? If you ask her, it wasn’t a physical breakthrough on the track—it was the work she’s been doing “upstairs.”
