The interdisciplinary team of Avinash Yaganapu (Computer Science), Amarnath Singam (Mechanical Engineering), Sai Phani Parsa (Computer Science), Calvinique Lee (Biomedical Engineering), Jennifer Zheng (Life Sciences), Sunjeet Saha (Mechanical Engineering), Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering), and Mingon Kang (Computer Science) in collaboration…

Associate Professor Allyson Hindle (Life Sciences) is part of a team of scientists awarded an $18.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will pave the way for the next generation of Antarctic research. The project, titled “Genome Infrastructure Catalyzing Next Generation Antarctic Data, Access, Tools, and…

Robert Pelletier (PhD Biological Sciences, Spring 2026), Michael D. Treat, Frank van Breukelen, and Jef Jaeger (all School of Life Sciences) recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Zoology, titled "Higher Energy Demands and Lower Body Condition in a Hot Spring: Comparing Relict Leopard Frogs at Two Thermally Contrasting Sites."…

Doctoral student Natasha Sushenko (Life Sciences) won the International Society for Extremophiles Poster Award 2026 for her poster presentation titled "Folate auxotrophy in Atribacterota reveals a widespread and underappreciated microbial cultivation problem" at the 15th International Congress on Extremophiles 2026, held in Seoul, South…

Distinguished professor Brian Hedlund and doctoral student Natasha Sushenko (both Life Sciences) presented their research at the 15th International Congress on Extremophiles 2026, held from September 13th-17th in Seoul, South Korea. Hedlund presented an invited thematic keynote lecture entitled "Polysaccharide Metabolism by the Aerobic…

The paper “Machine Learning over Encrypted Data: A Survey of Fully Homomorphic Encryption for AI Systems,” coauthored by Dillon Davidson, Matthew Jackson, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science), has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence Review, a leading journal with an impact factor of 18.8.

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…