In The News: Division of Research

Las Vegas Review Journal

On Monday, Edwin Oh led 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water.

Las Vegas Review Journal

On Monday, Edwin Oh led 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water.

Las Vegas Review Journal

On Monday, Edwin Oh led 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water.

Las Vegas Weekly

One of ChatGPT’s selling points is its easy facility with blog entries, term papers and the like; the copy it generates is good enough to have taken some freelance writing gigs away from friends of mine. 

CDC Gaming Reports

Sightline Payments recently released data to the University of Nevada Las Vegas International Gaming Institute (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ IGI) that identifies various clusters of payments behavior. The data will help understand how payments behavior can support responsible gambling efforts.

Gambling News

A recent study used data by global transaction processor Sightline Payments to examine the spending habits of gambling addicts

Payment Expert

Tapping into data from Sightline Payments, the University of Nevada Las Vegas has revealed that roughly 12% of US gaming consumers demonstrate payment habits that expose them to experiencing gambling harm.

Gaming America

The research examined payment habits and their link to responsible gambling.

PlayUSA

A new study from the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ International Gaming Institute analyzed customer payment data to help identify potential problem gambling behavior.

GGRAsia

New research by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas International Gaming Institute (IGI) suggests that identifying patterns of behaviour when people pay for gaming services can eventually support responsible gambling efforts, as it might help detect at-risk players. The study was conducted based on data provided by various payment technology and software providers.

SBC Americas

The potential rise in problem gambling in the United States is undeniably a popular subject of discussion—and rightfully so. Today, legal mobile gaming products are available to consumers in 24 states, reaching almost 60% of the US population. This Problem Gambling Awareness Month, we’d like to highlight a new stream of gamblers’ behavioral data that could help inform operators, regulators, and advocates about ways that payment transactions can be used to help identify potential gambling-related harms.

Politico

Kristen Averyt has joined the White House's Council on Environmental Quality as director for drought and Western resilience, Daniel Lippman reports. She most recently was senior climate adviser for former Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak and is a research professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.