Renee Olney (Radiochemistry PhD candidate) has been selected for the Training in Radiological and International Security (TRAINS) Fellowship sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Onley is a first-generation graduate student and one of only five students in the…

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…

Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) will gave  a seminar talk titled, "On Martínez-Kaabar Fractal-Fractional Calculus: Methods & Analysis," on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at the Seminar on PDEs and Related Topics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. In this talk, an overview of the idea of fractional calculus is…

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.

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) gave a public lecture as part of the science series for the Goettingen Literary Festival in Germany. This invitation was for his book "Hidden in the Heavens" about NASA's Kepler mission. The festival spans two weeks in October and November. Several dozen speakers, including journalists, athletes, authors,…

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) co-edited a book on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, which contains 31 papers and published in the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics;(PROMS, volume 486).

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) received acceptance for his paper titled, “Uncovering Alterations in Cancer Epigenetics via Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Hidden Markov Models,” in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). The study introduces a novel statistical…

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."

Mohammed Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored a paper, "On Nonlinear Distributed Order Fractional Differential Equations for Star-Sun Graphs Clique Polynomials," in Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (founded in 1880). 

The Center for Urban Water Conservation, a joint research facility managed by UNLV College of Sciences and UNR Extension, hosted a group of international visitors who were invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The IVLP is the U.S. Department’s premier…

Arumugam Jayaraman (Chemistry and Biochemistry), University of Wuerzburg professor Holger Braunschweig in Germany, and University of Sussex professor Alfredo Vargas in the UK published "Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron" in the Nature Portfolio’s Nature Chemistry journal on September 19,…

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored two papers, "Developing and analyzing a DG method for modeling of metasurfaces" and "A novel finite element method for simulating surface plasmon polaritons on complex graphene sheets," in Journal of Computational Physics (3.8 Impact Factor), one of the very top journals in Computational…