Las Vegas Business Academy, which mentoring the next generation of business leaders, is also partnering with a Chinese organization.
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UNLV’s Center for Business Economic Research hosted its annual economic forecasting event, noting Southern Nevada’s economy still remains vulnerable to surges in COVID-19 cases.
The program for college students includes a $15-per-hour wage for a maximum of 40 hours per week and housing at Red Rock Resort, Sunset Station, Palace Station or Green Valley Ranch.
The initiative’s founders at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute hope to better define the lines between safe and unsafe gambling, identify potential policy gaps and apply research to real-world settings.
UNLV Incubator is envisioned as a place “where ideas will be incubated into companies of the future,” said hub director and UNLV professor Robert Rippee said Wednesday of the space in the Hughes Center.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
Amazon announced Thursday it would invest $1.2 billion by 2025 into expanding a program that gives education and skills training benefits to thousands of its U.S. employees.
Grants, totaling $545,000, were awarded to nonprofits focused on improving economic mobility through access to fundamental needs and access to educational and workforce development.
Back-to-school shoppers in the Silver State are expected to spend $481.4 million on clothes, supplies, food and electronics this year, an all-time high for the state, the Nevada Retail Association said Thursday.
Liliam Lujan Hickey, co-founder of the Latin Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas and a champion for education in Nevada, died Thursday. She was 88.
A report issued by the university’s International Gaming Institute considers harm of marketing to vulnerable populations and positioning of offshore companies.
The College of Southern Nevada received the nearly $7 million grant from the federal CARES Act Recovery Assistance program to build an educational facility adjacent to the Historic Westside School to teach skills in demand for high-paying jobs.
UNLV and Entain are teaming up on a program designed to recruit, mentor, support and introduce women to the sports betting, gaming and technology industries.
