Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.

Carmen on starving bacteria and the transition from art student to biologist.

Elementary teachers head to summer school to bone up on science.

Alumna Daliah (Zodieru) Wachs expands her practice to thousands through satellite radio call-in show.

Nine students, including a mother of two who after years of working as a dental hygienist received her dental degree and became class valedictorian, are being honored as spring 2012 Outstanding Graduates.

A new species of scorpions nearly squirmed past a couple of UNLV graduate students. The story behind the Death Valley arthropod's discovery.

UNLV employees recently were honored at the 2012 Academic Recognition Ceremony with systemwide and universitywide awards for notable research, teaching, and service.

Lecture leads to dramatic diagnosis for an ailing grandfather 1,300 miles away.

Biology lecture leads to dramatic diagnosis for an ailing grandfather 1,300 miles away.

UNLV ecologist Scott Abella says full recovery of desert ecosystems can take up to 65 years.

Biology and Honors College graduate Emily Tamadonfar was the recipient of UNLV's 100,000th degree.

UNLV biologist Dennis Bazylinski and international research team first to isolate and grow greigite-producing bacterium; Findings in Dec. 23 issue of Science