Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West) and David Damore (Political Science) are the authors of an analysis of the the 2016 U.S. presidential election, "The End of the Democratic Blue Wall?," which recently was published by Brookings Mountain West. On Nov. 8, 2016, the Republicans breached a key portion of the Blue Wall as presidential candidate…

Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences) and a team of researchers recently published a research article titled "Measuring Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Extracted and Intracellular Magnetosomes Using Soft X-ray Ptychography" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Biomagnetism refers to phenomenon where living creatures…

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) will be a co-investigator on a $380,000 grant titled Architecture of Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems. He is working with Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center .  The project will study data from the NASA Kepler space mission to characterize the orbital properties of the thousands of…

Helen Wing (Life Sciences) has received a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant worth $445,008. It is a continuation of a research project that now has received nine years of continual NIH funding. The project focuses on virulence gene regulation in the bacterial pathogen Shigella.  Nucleoid structuring proteins…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) was quoted in an article at ThinkProgress titled "Dylann Roof Was Not 'Self-Radicalized.' He Was Part of a Racist Community.."  

Ai-Sun Tseng (Life Sciences) recently published a research article titled "Effects of the Biocide Methylisothiazolinone on Xenopus laevis Wound Healing and Tail Regeneration” in Aquatic Toxicology. This study shows that the commonly used preservative, methylisothiazolinone, impairs the natural repair ability of frog tadpoles to regrow tails.…

Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) just returned from a visit to King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he served as a member of the ABET engineering accreditation team for evaluating their engineering programs. The main campus in Jeddah has more than 82,000 students.

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) reflects on her personal experience and scholarship in a USA Today article titled "Trans girl, 9, makes history on National Geographic cover"

Lily Sender (Mechanical Engineering) became the first Rebel women's soccer player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America honors after her breakout senior season. UNLV women's soccer's record-setting season continues to be rewarded as Sender was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, announced by the National Soccer Coaches…