| Please Provide Information |
|
| |
|
|
|
| Las Vegas Apartment Locator Services : Las Vegas Apartments |  | Contents | |
| Colleges and Universities |
Las Vegas is a city with many exciting attractions.
Like any other large metropolitan area, the city has fine libraries,
museums, community theater, art galleries, and parks which are
enjoyed and supported by more than one million local residents.
As one of the fastest-growing areas in the United States, southern
Nevada is an example of modern urban living.
University cultural events provide yet another form of entertainment
in a city which bills itself as the "Entertainment Capital
of the World." Two of the university's yearly series, the
Charles Vanda Master Series and the Barrick Lecture Series,
are extremely popular with students and community residents.
The Charles Vanda Master Series offers visiting performers of
the caliber of Isaac Stern, Andre Segovia, the London Symphony,
and Itzhak Perlman. The Barrick Lecture Series brings well-known
persons to campus for free public lectures on a variety of topics.
Recent visitors included Walter Cronkite, Louis Rukeyser, Benazir
Bhutto, Tom Wolfe, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Cokie Roberts,
and Mark Russell. The series has also featured important academicians
like Stephen Jay Gould, George Wald, Carl Sagan, Mortimer Adler,
Jane Goodall, and Richard Leakey.
Of course, any college experience includes more than the intellectual
stimulation of the classroom and the physical confines of the
city and campus. It also takes color and character from the
university's larger environment. For UNLV, this is the Southwest.
Mild desert temperatures make outdoor recreation possible throughout
the year in southern Nevada. Within a 30-mile radius lie the
shores of Lake Mead, massive Hoover Dam and the Colorado River
recreation area, the snow-skiing and hiking trails of 12,000-foot
Mount Charleston, and a panorama of redrock mountains and eroded
sandstone landscapes. In addition, the city is only four to
five hours by car from the beaches of Southern California and
the national parks of Utah and Arizona.
Las Vegas enjoys a mild year-round climate, yet there are noticeable
seasonal differences. The annual average temperature is 79 degrees,
but it is not unusual for the mercury to hit the 110 degree
mark during the summer and dip into the 30s in the winter. Annual
rainfall amounts to only 3.5 inches, much of it falling in the
winter when it is snowing in the nearby mountains.
|
|
|
|
|
