'My Special Hand'

4-year-old Hailey Dawson can now practice her pitching and batting thanks to a team of UNLV engineers and affordable 3-D printing technology.

Making Hailey's Hand

Students worked to create a Robohand for 4-year-old Hailey Dawson using the college's 3-D printer.

UNLV Opera Presents Two Popular Operas Nov. 13-15

The performances include Seymour Barab's "Little Red Riding Hood" and Maurice Ravel’s clever fantasy "L’enfant et les sortilèges" (The Bewitched Child).

Would Internet Access Turn You Into a Problem Gambler?

New study finds no causal relationship between Internet use and problem gambling.

New Faces: Dolly Kelepecz

This dance professor says UNLV is the one place she feels connected to in Las Vegas that has not been imploded.

Cultivating Research

Call it watering the green spots. UNLV’s Faculty Opportunity Awards program provides seed funding for faculty researchers with promising ideas and a desire to pursue additional funding from government agencies, foundations, or private industry. The program has supported a wide variety of campus research projects involving multidisciplinary teams, single investigators, and other faculty working to develop intellectual property.

Paths to Innovation

For more than 30 years, U.S. universities have had the right to commercialize discoveries made through faculty research funded by the federal government. For a time, few universities made much of the opportunity. But today, as funding support for higher education is increasingly imperiled, marketing great ideas has never been more popular --- or more crucial. Three UNLV projects show how research benefits the university, the business community, and you.

Research Briefs: Winter 2014

Supercomputing on campus; cosmic radiation and a mission to Mars; a grant to help at-risk kids; Bluetooth boosts blood-flow sensing; high marks for grad programs; a plentiful mineral from space; hard-to-find soft fossils; climate challenges; the public weighs in on drones; and preserving Nevada’s old newspapers.

An Edge on Gaming

Under guidance of former gaming executive, student inventors are developing and patenting technologies to ensure Las Vegas doesn't lose as the industry leader.

2014 Annual Report on UNLV Research Activity

An annual accounting of research and economic development activity over the last fiscal year.

Research in Print: Winter 2014

Faculty authors explore our place in the universe, Gandhi and his mentors, a small city’s civil rights struggle, and more.

Research as Remedy

During the past decade, UNLV’s Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing have expanded their research programs and boosted collaboration among faculty investigators in support of the university’s vision of becoming a major research institution. The following profiles demonstrate the diversity and depth of the two schools’ research projects.