UNLV faculty members Shawn Gerstenberger and Woosoon Yim recently received the university’s most prestigious research honor, the harry Reid Silver State Research Award. The two faculty members join a small, elite group of UNLV professors who have won the annual award, which was created in 2001 as a tribute to the U.S. senator for his sup-port of UNLV. The award, which recognizes research that is both highly regarded and responsive to the needs of the com-munity and state, provides recipients with a $10,000 stipend funded with private donations from the UNLV Foundation.Gerstenberger and Yim, who received the honor in 2011 and 2012 respectively, recently described the research that earned them this important distinction.