Topic: science and technology

U.N.L.V. signage with Fall leaves in the background
| March 23, 2017

Chemistry grad Nancy Washton aims to get more girls into science in STEM-focused #SitWithMe campaign.

Supernova 1987A
| March 21, 2017

University Forum lecture looks back 30 years to the first time anyone since the days of Queen Elizabeth I was able to see a supernova with the naked eye.

Zhaohuan Zhu
| February 22, 2017

Zhaohuan Zhu is the first UNLV scientist to earn fellowship for early career scholars considered ‘next generation of scientific leaders.’

Team Wingin' It stands in front of U.N.L.V. sign
| February 15, 2017

Team Wingin’ It, a group led by UNLV students, hatched a plan to help Las Vegas become more energy efficient and plucked the $10K grand prize during the Consumer Electronics Show.

Kepler-47
| February 3, 2017

Exoplanet discoveries have opened up brash new ways to think about the way systems operate in distant galaxies, and challenged how we approach own galactic neighborhood.

Slide of a Martian meteorite
| February 1, 2017

"Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery" brings College of Sciences together with UNLV Galleries for an exhibit of images and objects related to UNLV research.

Biochemistry professor Ron Gary
| September 2, 2016

Biochemist Ron Gary's enzyme research seeks to defeat cancer and Alzheimer's disease.