Topic: environment

petri dish and beakers containing liquids
Research | December 26, 2018

In 2018, faculty and students collaborated with one another and international colleagues on scientific exploration that sought to help people make sense of themselves and the world around them.

Rose Shillito
People | October 17, 2018

Scholarship fuels research that could save communities from floods.

Shawn McCoy posing with tree
Research | August 27, 2018

Demand for real estate rebounds in high-risk areas within one to two years of a wildfire, UNLV study finds. Here’s what the research may mean for homeowners in California and beyond.

UNLV geoscientist Eugene Smith
Research | March 13, 2018

How a vacation in South Africa, a one-of-its-kind UNLV lab, and pieces of volcanic glass smaller than a grain of salt changed a long-held view of human history.

Emma Frances Bloomfield
Research | October 18, 2017

Four stumbling blocks impede clear communication on climate change.

landscape view
Campus News | October 17, 2017

UNLV is ideally placed to assist — and provide — leaders to deal with the challenges of the major urban center that is Las Vegas.