Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…

Justin Zhan (Computer Science) and Paul Oh (Mechanical Engineering) received a $600,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in Big Data at UNLV. Zhan is the principal investigator on the project; Oh is the co-principal investigator. The RET in Big Data will help close the…

Pouya Shojaeishahmirzadi (Mechanical Engineering) recently was awarded the 2017-18 UNLV Graduate College STEM Fellowship. Shojaeishahmirzadi is pursuing a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering. Professor Woosoon Yim is his advisor. The UNLV Graduate College STEM Fellowship is granted over four semesters to support newly admitted doctoral…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) was presented the prestigious Harry Reid Silver State Research Award at the 2017 UNLV Academic Achievement Award Ceremony. The award was created in 2001 to honor longtime U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and to recognize faculty who have performed research that is both highly regarded and responsive to the needs…

Tyler Stalbaum (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the 2017 Graduate Regents' Scholar Award for UNLV at the UNLV Academic Achievement Award Ceremony April 19. The award is based on distinguished academic accomplishments, leadership ability, and service contributions as a registered NSHE student, as well as on the recipient’s potential for…

Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) just returned from a visit to King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he served as a member of the ABET engineering accreditation team for evaluating their engineering programs. The main campus in Jeddah has more than 82,000 students.

Lily Sender (Mechanical Engineering) became the first Rebel women's soccer player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America honors after her breakout senior season. UNLV women's soccer's record-setting season continues to be rewarded as Sender was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, announced by the National Soccer Coaches…

Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) received a $13,505 grant from the Mountain West CTR-IN and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health for his “Prosthetic Assessments of Gait and Mobility in Individuals with Lower Limb Loss” research study, which will explore functional mobility and limb loading…

Paul Oh (Mechanical Engineering) and his team of UNLV researchers and students are being featured in the Nova special, "Rise of the Robots," which will air  at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 on Vegas PBS. In spring 2015, UNLV's team, DRC-HUBO@UNLV, competed in the international Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robotics challenge,…

Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the UNLV nuclear science and engineering fellowship program. Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four…

Sue Wainscott (Libraries), John Novak (Libraries), and Mohamed Trabia (Engineering) are participating in the 2015 cohort of the Digital Library Federation E-Research Network. The goal of the network is to create a mutually supportive community engaged in continuous learning about e-research and data management support. The UNLV team will produce a…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) just published a paper in Scientific Reports. The title of the paper is "Nanothorn Electrodes for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Artificial Muscles."