The Brain Injury Translational Research (BITR) lab proudly presented posters at the UMC 8th Annual Poster Symposium help Nov. 5-6, 2025.  Hana Sourjah, Dihini Perera, Ph.D. student Joe Cadiz, and Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (all Nursing) received the 2nd Place Award in the Healthcare Student category for their…

Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) has been invited to give a seminar in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Nov. 6. She has also been named the 2025 Marsha Betley Named Lecturer.

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new journal article in New Phytologist quantifying drought mortality effects in global tree ring datasets. The paper is titled "Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings."

Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences), Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), and Christy Strong (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers at South Dakota State University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, were awarded a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.  Through collaboration of biologists, mathematicians,…

Donald Price, Kristian West, Michelle Cevallos-Zea. and Matthew Medeiros (all Life Sciences), along with Sara Cahan, Joaquin Nunez, and Emily Longman from the University of Vermont and Joanne Yew from the University of Hawaii, have recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Kristian West and Michelle Cevallos-Zea have…

Ph.D. student Keegan Hammond (Life Sciences), a student researcher in the Dryland Ecohydrology lab, was selected for the Natural Resources Workforce Development fellowship as part of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Hammond will join a cohort of seven graduate students to gain experience in developing actionable, use-inspired…

UNLV undergraduates from Jingchun Chen’s Lab Lead Alzheimer’s Research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Two undergraduate researchers from Jingchun Chen’s lab at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM), Tyrell Pratt (School of Integrated Health Sciences) and Alice Lee (School of Life Sciences), have achieved…

Kelly Tseng  (Life Sciences) has been recognized as a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, a platform that identifies leading researchers worldwide based on the impact and volume of their scholarly contributions. Tseng was ranked in the top 0.5% of nearly 96,000 researchers globally in Regeneration Biology. Her award-winning research explores…

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new article in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a global synthesis of precipitation memory effects in plant growth titled, "Lagged precipitation effects on plant production across terrestrial biomes."

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored two synthesis journal articles in Global Change Biology, one titled, "Identifying the Climate Conditions Associated With Extreme Growth States in Trees Across the Western United States," and the second titled, "Precipitation Pulse Dynamics Are Not Ubiquitous: A Global Meta-Analysis of Plant and Ecosystem…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences), in collaboration with Becky Ostertag at the University of Hawaii, published: "Niche conservatism and sympatric parallel evolution may help to maintain eight nascent tree taxa along a sharp elevation gradient," in Functional Ecology. They asked how eight races, varieties, and species of ʻŌhiʻa trees (Hawaiian…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Phylogenomics of the tetraploid Hawaiian lobeliads: implications for their origin, dispersal history, and adaptive radiation." The Hawaiian lobeliad radiation, comprising 143 species, is the largest endemic plant radiation on any island…