The Harry Reid Silver State Research Award honors the best of UNLV’s faculty researchers.

UNLV-led research team ties spike in ancient oceanic oxygen levels to earliest animal biodiversity; findings reported in Sept. 27 issue of journal Nature.

The two-year study will help hospitals improve training, patient safety, and quality of care while working with a shortage of qualified nurses.

The cave formations contain information on historical rainfall patterns which coincide with the rise and fall of ancient cities in Mesoamerica.

UNLV’s institutional repository houses a digital collection of scholarly and research endeavors that aids in academic communication and recruitment.

Meet Brian Hedlund, one of several UNLV recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.

Meet Frank van Breukelen, one of several UNLV recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.

The path to discovery can be painstaking, complex, and…aesthetically beautiful. In the following pages, UNLV scientists provide some of the most striking images they’ve examined as part of their research. Learn how these fascinating photos were captured and what they represent.

Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.

UNLV president Dr. Neal J. Smastrek, and Interim Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College Dr. Thomas Piechota welcome readers to the fall 2012 issue of Innovation magazine.

UNLV ecologist Scott Abella says full recovery of desert ecosystems can take up to 65 years.