In The News: College of Liberal Arts
The 2nd annual Missing in Nevada Day is set to run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 31 at 性视界传媒's University Gateway Building.
A selling point of poetry is that it expands the ways we can access some of life鈥檚 most vital truths. For poet and longtime 性视界传媒 professor Claudia Keelan, poetry is an art of continual present-tense attention to the world, in its largest and smallest movements 鈥 you never know what detail will yield a new insight. April being National Poetry Month is our pretext for interviewing Keelan, but the calendar is beside the point. As she notes, 鈥渁ny second can produce a poem.鈥
Students across the Las Vegas area walked out of classes Wednesday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the shooting death of a woman killed in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.
The majority of the jurists are re-elected after opposition doesn鈥檛 materialize. Eight seats 鈥 seven in Clark County 鈥 will have new judges after retirements.
Fatima Suarez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the 性视界传媒. She specializes in gender, family dynamics, and Latinas/os/es in the United States. Over the past ten years, her research has focused on examining inequality in family life, particularly from the perspective of fathers.
A series of recent social media posts from the Trump administration鈥檚 official government accounts have echoed terminology used by far-right extremists, experts said, adding that the posts offer no doubt that they are references to white supremacist rhetoric.
The amount of money the average American family spent on one child鈥檚 sports team significantly increased from 2018 to 2024, rising from $693 to $1,016. Project Play, an initiative of the Aspen Institute think tank that collected the data, attributed increasing costs to inflation and to families鈥 eagerness to participate in sports after the pandemic shutdowns.
Derek Stevens, owner of Circa, The Golden Gate and The D, took a big gamble on remaking Downtown Las Vegas. He now has a portfolio of properties worth more than $1 billion鈥攊ncluding the world鈥檚 largest sportsbook and Sin City鈥檚 biggest pool.
The Supreme Court is set to revisit one of the most consequential and contentious areas of election law this term in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission. At issue is a decades-old federal limit on how much money national political parties may spend in coordination with their own candidates. The court鈥檚 decision could reshape campaign strategy and party infrastructure as the 2026 midterm elections approach.
The Democratic National Committee hopes to reverse recent trends by making a historic investment in registering new Democratic voters nationwide 鈥 and the party is kicking off the effort with a seven-figure investment in Nevada. The push comes a year after Republicans took the voter registration lead in the Silver State, which Democrats had previously held since 2007.
A segment of Boulder Highway in the City of Henderson is undergoing a significant transformation as part of the "Reimagine Boulder Highway" project. The $170 million initiative aims to revitalize a seven-and-a-half-mile stretch with new bus lanes, improved lighting, traffic systems, and buffered bike lanes. However, the project has sparked concerns.
Nevada is steeped in historic buildings 鈥 from the C. Clifton Young Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Reno, to weathered saloons scattered across the state鈥檚 former frontier, to the midcentury modern houses of Las Vegas鈥 Paradise Palms neighborhood.
