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
Meet some of the Mojave Desert critters that call our campus home.
UNLV students set the tone for their post-grad futures through internship experiences across the country.
Daniel Villanueva returns to the School of Life Sciences to help address challenges facing the endangered Devils Hole pupfish.
Created in honor of longtime staff member, a new geoscience scholarship celebrates 50 years of change while helping the next generation of scientists.
UNLV-led study used long-term health data from nearly 1,000 participants to track relationship between DNA methylation and blood pressure.
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
While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.

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.
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.
Discovery in hamsters suggests path toward inducing hibernation in mammals that don’t do it naturally.
Two-thirds of Metroparks Toledo plant sites examined over a recent six-year period showed biodiversity gains, a new report shows.
It could be unreliable feeders, unreachable nectar, or the lack of a water feature, to name a few.
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