Department of Geoscience News
Geoscience is an all-encompassing term used to refer to the earth sciences. The Department of Geosciences offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels where students can learn about topics such as earth processes; the origin and evolution of our planet; the chemical and physical properties of minerals, rocks, and fluids; the structure of our mobile crust; the history of life; and the human adaptation to earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and floods.
Current Geoscience News
The rosiest headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.
UNLV-led research details early insights from NASA’s Perseverance rover; Specimens due back on Earth in the 2030s.
A monthly roundup of the top news stories at UNLV, featuring the presidential election, gaming partnerships, and much more.
The university becomes the first NSHE institution to introduce a comprehensive plan for tackling climate change.
A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.
Geoscience graduate Dawn Reynoso helps create Ice Age Fossils State Park.
Geoscience In The News
Could life exist on Mars? That's what a professor at UNLV is looking to find out using samples from the red planet.
Mars has fascinated humanity since Galileo Galilei accurately observed it more than 400 years ago. Now we’re getting to the point of trying to land spaceships on the planet, which is the stated goal of President Donald Trump and his advisor, Elon Musk.
Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof.
Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, but the area was vandalized soon after.
Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, but the area was vandalized soon after.
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to sit on the tip of a needle.
