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As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, UNLV responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to UNLV's faculty experts for answers.

A yearlong collection of UNLV faculty making the news for their discoveries and contributions to the community.

One of her hobbies has taught the lab safety manager that sometimes the victor is the one who just keeps moving forward.

Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute student researchers embrace remote learning and engage in public policy research to benefit UNLV and the region.

As summer comes to a close and classrooms open, UNLV biochemist Ernesto Abel-Santos offers cleaning best practices.

An enduring UNLV end-of-semester tradition is to highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

Life sciences' Helen Wing and colleagues assisting Southern Nevada Health District with viral transport medium; other faculty in College of Sciences contribute protective equipment.

New UNLV study shows promise for role of a high-carb, low-protein, and low-fat diet in fighting off C. diff infections.

Rebel Grad Slam winner Nam Hoang’s research focuses on how tumors trick the body into feeding them, and how to stop it.

Alumna Vanessa Sanders finding new paths for isotopes therapeutic and diagnostic at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Bradley Boe finds empowerment in a new scholarship for students with spinal cord injuries.

The most exciting thing about chemistry? The infinite failures in even the most thoroughly thought-out experiments, the biochemist says.

Professor Clemens Heske's pride and joy is unique worldwide in its ability to study surface chemistry.

Doctoral student Bhagya De Silva traveled more than nine thousand miles to mine for better Alzheimer's Treatments.

A collection of stories highlighting UNLV students and faculty who made the news in 2018.

UNLV president Marta Meana will highlight exceptional graduating students at commencement who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the Winter 2018 graduating class.

UNLV president will highlight exceptional students at commencement who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

Nevada undergraduate research journal offers UNLV students the opportunity to promote their research and boost their resumes.

Five UNLV graduates will be recognized by President Len Jessup during winter commencement for their combination of academic excellence and service to the community.

Doctoral candidate Eshani Lee’s research ensures college chemistry knowledge doesn’t get lost in translation.

With limited options in Nevada for top-notch scientists, two UNLV grads welcome the high-tech jobs that the marijuana industry brought.

Chemistry grad Nancy Washton aims to get more girls into science in STEM-focused #SitWithMe campaign.

“Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery” shows the beauty of science and the artistic side of even the most lab-bound of scientists.

"Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery" brings College of Sciences together with UNLV Galleries for an exhibit of images and objects related to UNLV research.

Four newly minted grads will be recognized by UNLV President Len Jessup during Saturday's commencement for their academic and research excellence.

From finances to energy, health care, and more, UNLV graduate student researchers are asking important questions about America’s future.

Biochemist Ron Gary's enzyme research seeks to defeat cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Antonio “Tony” Alamo, 2016 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year

Dr. Tony Alamo’s wildly varied career started with a simple realization: He’d misdiagnosed UNLV.

A nearly native Las Vegan, Nemanja Novakovic had planned to leave Nevada when it came time for college. But that was before he discovered his academic dreams could be fulfilled at UNLV.

Radiochemistry program teaming with universities, national labs for research and development in nuclear science and security; five-year grant funded by U.S. Department of Energy.

Media coverage from 2015 highlighting research partnerships between UNLV and industry that support regional economic development.

Our high-tech marvels demand rare earth metals and oxides. UNLV researchers are working to make extracting them less toxic and more efficient.

UNLV has reached a licensing agreement with Abel Therapeutics, a start-up company that seeks to commercialize the discoveries of biochemistry professor Ernesto Abel-Santos.

Three UNLV scientists will present their work during an Alzheimer's research symposium Nov. 13 on campus.

UNLV researcher patents a chemotherapy compound that uses a heavy metal derivative to improve cancer treatment.


Chemistry professor developing treatment to help the good bacteria battle the bad bacteria in your stomach.

Chemistry professors' research aims to improve drugs that are effective at treating cancer but leave patients dealing with terrible side effects.

UNLV faculty discoveries have commercial applications with value to the university, the private sector, and, ultimately, you. Learn about UNLV chemistry professor Ernesto Abel-Santos, who is working to move his innovative thinking out of the laboratory and into the boardroom.

UNLV's scientists make discoveries and share their findings in prestigious journals. But then what?



Meet Dong-Chan Lee, 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.


Inspired by loved ones’ battles with cancer and intrigued by the mysteries locked within the cells of humans, Hui Zhang hopes to one day make medical history.



UNLV employees recently were honored at the 2012 Academic Recognition Ceremony with systemwide and universitywide awards for notable research, teaching, and service.


UNLV research teams were awarded $1.4 million to advance nuclear energy sciences.

Professors in a wide range of disciplines captured top teaching honors at the end of spring semester.




UNLV is going big and thinking small as it moves to the forefront of solar energy research. The UNLV Center for Energy Research has installed the world’s most powerful solar energy generator while a UNLV chemist is working to expand solar cell technology.

Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President’s Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.

Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future, but myriad research challenges must be addressed before its potential is realized. UNLV science and engineering faculty are leading the effort to harness the power of nature’s most abundant element
Announcements
In the News
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Dec. 23, 2020 | Raw Story
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Dec. 21, 2020 | Kaiser Health News
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Dec. 21, 2020 | HealthyWomen
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The White House—Scene of COVID Outbreaks Under Trump—Will Get A Deep Clean For President-elect BidenDec. 21, 2020 | Scientific American
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Dec. 21, 2020 | American Healthcare Journal
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Nov. 25, 2020 | Science Mag
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Nov. 25, 2020 | Bioengineer.org
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Feb. 12, 2020 | The Medical News
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Oct. 25, 2019 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Oct. 10, 2019 | Argonne
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Jan. 24, 2018 | Chemistry World
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Dec. 20, 2017 | Las Vegas Sun
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Nov. 17, 2017 | NPR
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Oct. 30, 2017 | Chemical & Engineering News
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Oct. 30, 2017 | Entomology Today
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May. 23, 2016 | Science Magazine
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Oct. 9, 2015 | KLAS-TV: 8 News Now
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Oct. 9, 2015 | KSNV-TV: News 3
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Oct. 8, 2015 | Las Vegas Sun
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Jul. 15, 2015 | Hindustan Times
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Jul. 14, 2015 | NBC Los Angeles
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Jun. 25, 2015 | Las Vegas Review Journal
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Experts
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Associate Vice President of Research
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Professor, Biochemistry
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is one of the departments in the College of Sciences.