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College of Sciences News

In the College of Sciences, discovery and education go hand-in-hand to provide innovative and engaging learning environments to enable students to go on to successful careers as researchers, educators, private-industry scientists, and health professionals.

Current Sciences News

A desert cottontail rabbit in the landscaping.
Campus News |

Meet some of the Mojave Desert critters that call our campus home.

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People |

UNLV students set the tone for their post-grad futures through internship experiences across the country.

Danny Villanueva talks with students visiting Ash Meadows
Research |

Daniel Villanueva returns to the School of Life Sciences to help address challenges facing the endangered Devils Hole pupfish.

UNLV letters placed in front of rocky landscape at Red Rock state park
People |

Created in honor of longtime staff member, a new geoscience scholarship celebrates 50 years of change while helping the next generation of scientists.

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Research |

UNLV-led study used long-term health data from nearly 1,000 participants to track relationship between DNA methylation and blood pressure.

Wetlands Park
Research |

Through field work at the Clark County Wetlands, two UNLV graduate students are providing scientific data to help restore habitats and evaluate the health of its newest trees.

Sciences In The News

Live Science

While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.

Yahoo!

From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter of a century of drought.

WTVG 13 Action News

The next time you’re in one of Toledo’s 19 Metroparks, you might see a bunch of 4 feet tall plastic tubes with trees growing out of them. But that’s not litter: those plastic tubes are actually helping the trees grow.

Science

Discovery in hamsters suggests path toward inducing hibernation in mammals that don’t do it naturally.

The Blade

Two-thirds of Metroparks Toledo plant sites examined over a recent six-year period showed biodiversity gains, a new report shows.

Good Housekeeping

It could be unreliable feeders, unreachable nectar, or the lack of a water feature, to name a few.

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Recent Sciences Accomplishments

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) was invited to become a charter member of the Board of Editors of a new journal, Vedic Science Journal (India). Also, for the last twenty years, he has been on he Board of Editors of Ganit Bharati, Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics.
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…
Prasun Guha (Life Sciences) gave a talk at the FASEB Acetylation International Meeting (2026) in Porto, Portugal.
The Nevada Center for Astrophysics (Sciences) is one of many collaborators working to develop a new obeservatory which will expand the field of neutrino astronomy. The Tau Air-shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is the next step in being able to more fully map the high-energy neutrino sky. The project is in the process of site selection for…
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—especially stomatal regulation, photosynthetic…
UNLV has received a $1 million award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of the national Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative. Led by the Graduate College in partnership with the colleges of Sciences and Engineering, the four-year initiative will provide fellowship funding for 30+ STEM doctoral students and…