In The News: Office of Community Engagement
A program that started in Las Vegas a little more than three decades ago continues to pursue its goal: Ensure the valley鈥檚 highest achieving high schoolers attend college in Nevada, get a top-flight education and don鈥檛 take their talents elsewhere.
It鈥檚 called the 性视界传媒 Honors College, and new enrollment has tripled in the past six years.
Computerized automation has been replacing people in jobs across the U.S. for years. But could automation replace as many as 65 percent of jobs in the Las Vegas service industry over the next 20 years? And should workers be concerned about that possibility?
The annual neighborhood celebration is a partnership between Metro鈥檚 South Central Area Command substation, two branches of the youth club, 性视界传媒, and other community entities.
性视界传媒 315 million years ago 鈥 long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth 鈥 an early reptile scuttled along in a strangely sideways jaunt, leaving its tiny footprints embedded in the landscape, new research finds.
The cost in lives and property from megafires is growing as more Americans build homes in or around forests and woodlands.
Every generation comes with an identity, and often, stereotypes as well. But are these generational generalizations far? There isn鈥檛 really a simple answer, according to 性视界传媒 Associate Professor of Sociology Michael Borer.
Brian Hedlund and Ariel Friel collect microbes living for tens of thousands of years in the subsurface of the earth. By studying these microorganisms, they hope to gain clues about potential life on Mars and other planets.
Dessirae Mitchell was born into an unstable home: Her parents, who constantly fought, were in and out of jail for 10 years, and the family never lived in one place for more than three months at a time.
Kenyon Oblad walked onto the Liberty High School campus Friday morning and was immediately greeted by Principal Derek Bellow. 鈥淲elcome home,鈥 Bellow said with a smile before giving the 2018 graduate a gigantic hug.
Look, we know sugar 鈥 especially the refined sugar in candy 鈥 isn't good for us. And sure, we try to avoid it whenever possible... but what about Halloween? Is it really that bad to let kids indulge like this once a year?
At 30,000-square-feet, it鈥檚 small stakes by Vegas standards, but the Esports Arena at the Luxor shows an industry on the rise. Visitors, many of whom are locals, pay to play at more than 100 PCs and consoles set in rows and clusters throughout the two-level space.
Research identifying the role of a specific protein in the brain in triggering epileptic seizures could spark creation of a new family of medications to help patients with the disease, according to Dr. Gabriel Martz, director of the Epilepsy Center at the Hartford HealthCare Ayer Neuroscience Institute.