In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Higher education is an investment, and the Legislature this year approved more than $74 million in budget restorations for the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), according to NSHE’s website.
Nevada is currently leading the nation in job growth and experiencing an uptick in college-educated workers moving to Clark County in particular.
Nevada is currently leading the nation in job growth and experiencing an uptick in college-educated workers moving to Clark County in particular.
The new building will provide more spaces for teaching, research, and collaborations.
Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday announced a host of initiatives during a summit held at UNLV to strengthen the state and national cybersecurity industry’s growing workforce, with a focus on young people entering the industry.
UNLV has received funding from the federal government for cybersecurity education, enabling it to bring on fifty students per year as paid interns at its Free Cyber Clinic. Through this experience, students will get hands-on cyber experience from small business clients, training for the Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications plus exam fee support, and support for attending cybersecurity conferences such as DEFCON.
Nevada joins the nation in a shortfall of professionals within the cyber workforce, which the White House is taking measures to reverse as cyber threats evolve.
The three teenagers who died in a car crash in North Las Vegas last week weren't even old enough to have driver's licenses, according to the Clark County Coroner's Office.
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $24,994 in funding for a student team at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) as part of the Agency’s People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program seeking solutions to environmental and public health challenges. The UNLV team, one of 21 award winners nationwide, is researching a cost-effective, simple process using agricultural waste biomass products to clean the drinking water supply.
Public safety officials around Clark County are becoming concerned about the recent surge in crashes involving motorcycles, including six over the past month, four of which were fatal.
UNLV is working to inspire the valley's next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Local high school students had the opportunity to test their skills at the university's annual GenCyber Camp.
In a dark room inside UNLV’s Science and Engineering Building Friday morning, high schoolers were trying to escape. But, laughs and excited screams were heard on the other side of the door. UNLV students and faculty designed and built an escape room to teach them the necessity of cybersecurity.