Godson Ebenezer Adjovu (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) has won the people's choice poster award at the 2023 Nevada Water Association (NWRA) Annual Conference held in Sparks, Nevada.

Godson Ebenezer Adjovu (Civil and Environmental Engineering) has won the Nevada Water Resources Association (NWRA) Southern Nevada Scholarship at the 2023 NWRA Annual Conference held in Sparks, NV. He previously won the same at 2022 conference.

Godson Ebenezer Adjovu (Civil and Environmental Engineering) was elected to represent District 1 consisting of Clark, Lincoln, Nye, and Esmeralda counties on the Nevada Water Resources Association (NWRA) Board of Trustees at the recently heard NWRA conference in Sparks, NV. 

Gabson Baguma (Civil and Environmental Engineering) emerged the best Graduate Poster Presenter with an award of $600 at the Nevada Water Resources Association (NWRA) conference held in Reno on Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2023.

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) has published a book titled, Modularization: The Fine Art of Offsite Preassembly for Capital Projects (ISBN: 978-1-119-82471-8) with Michael Kluck at KBR through the publisher Wiley. The book is for both graduate students and practitioners in the construction industry who…

Professor Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "The Dictator’s Dilemma and the 'Sovereignty of Cyberspace' Delusion," in the January 2023 issue of IEEE Computer.

Assistant professor H. Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering) has received the NSF CAREER award for his project, "Continuous atmospheric water harvesting through gels." This award for $596,487 will support research on atmospheric water harvesting for five years through a UNLV-developed hydrogel membrane design. Atmospheric water harvesting is a way…

Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, OUR recognizes and honors UNLV faculty members with a record of excellence in inspiring, influencing, supporting, and mentoring undergraduate researchers in their professional development, career training, and educational journey. OUR awards one…

Kennedy Wharton (Engineering) is the recipient of the Leading by Example Award for being a returning peer mentor who went above and beyond to serve mentees and fellow peer mentors in the Peer Mentoring program. The program is part of the First-Year Experience under the office of vice provost for undergraduate education.

Maddie Carroll (Engineering) is the recipient of the Peer Mentor Development Award for demonstrating outstanding growth in the position and committing themselves to ongoing learning and professional development in the Peer Mentoring program. The program is part of the First-Year Experience under the office of vice provost for…

Junggab Son (Computer Science), a corresponding-authored paper titled "Defensive Adversarial Training for Enhancing Robustness of ECG based User Identification" was accepted for presentation in IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 

Mingon Kang (Computer Science) published a paper titled, "Hi-LASSO: High-performance python and apache spark packages for feature selection with high-dimensional data," in PLOS ONE in collaboration with Gyeongsang National University in South Korea. The graduate student authors at Gyeongsang National University conducted this research under the…