The think tank will continue its work of quality, independent research at UNLV on issues facing the Intermountain West region.
Long before K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters. Now an Eadington Fellow is exploring what their meteroic rise on Las Vegas entertainment scene has to do with American ideals of beauty, citizenship and capitalism amidst Cold War politics.
Drone regulation may come down to better defining reasonable expectations of privacy.
UNLV President Len Jessup on the successes we're already developing under our Top Tier initiative.
Study reveals UNLV students have one of the skills employers prize. Here's how University Libraries helps build it.
The physics professor on astronomy, heroic efforts, and how to board a plane.
Southern Nevada industries are expanding, unemployment is down sharply, and visitor volume is trending up, according to biannual economic report.
Erica Marti, environmental engineering student, will travel to Germany this month to meet the world’s greatest minds in medicine, physics and chemistry.
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.
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.
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.
Faculty authors explore our place in the universe, Gandhi and his mentors, a small city’s civil rights struggle, and more.