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Two 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engineering students won the university’s senior design competition last month with a timely project — a microwave for COVID-19 disinfection.


It was late in the afternoon of Oct. 19 when Victor Cordón was driving a four-wheeler on the side of a road in Amargosa Valley, doing his daily trash run for a small farm he had been working at for three months.

Near the end of his life last summer, former mobster Frank Cullotta said Las Vegas as depicted in the movie Casino will never come back.


The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed in just the past month with a variant, vaccine and an increase in cases.

As the Clark County School Board nears a decision on reopening classrooms, many parents are agonizing over whether it’s worth sending their kids back to in-person instruction for just a few months while COVID-19 rates remain high.

How Nevada’s two university art museums survived the pandemic
Erin Breen, director of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Vulnerable Road Users Project, weighed in.


Industry watchers say online casinos, also referred to as iCasinos or iGaming, will spread to more markets in 2021 as states reeling from the pandemic’s economic impacts look for new forms of tax revenue. While the Silver State offers online poker, experts say it’ll take years before it broadens its online gaming offerings.
