Accomplishments: College of Sciences

Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has been elected as a board member of the Books Committee at the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (MarEST), United Kingdom. IMarEST is one of the world’s leading professional institutions dedicated to advancing marine engineering, science, and applied technology. This…
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented a paper on the Bricks and Blocks of Ultra mathematicians in the session, "Unspoken History of Mathematics," organized during the 105th annual meeting of the Southeastern section of the Mathematical Association of America held in Florence, Alabama, on March 26-28, 2026. 
Lex de Asis (Psychology) and Adrianna N. Tsao (Biological Sciences; Neuroscience) were named 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholars.The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s premier undergraduate award for students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. This year, 1,485 students from 482 institutions were nominated…
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented a paper, "A confluence of Hinduism and Judaism," during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion - Western Region, which was held (both live and on Zoom) on the UNLV campus March 13-15, 2026.
Mohammed Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences), has been selected as one of the 25 recipients of the 2026 Peer Reviewers Extraordinaire Award by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a program of California State University, Long Beach. The recognition was announced during the OLC Innovate 2026 Conference, an…
Monika Karney, alumna Taylor Gerson, and Helen Wing (Life Sciences) published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). Gerson completed her Ph.D. in December and is a post-doc at Scripps Research, San Diego, Calif. Karney is a self-funded MS student who works as a lab manager on Wing's team. 
Published in Nature Communications, a new study from Prasun Guha’s (Life Sciences) laboratory, led by Sujan Chatterjee (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) et al., discovered that the small molecule IP6 (phytic acid) acts within the nucleus and is essential and sufficient for activating the HDAC3 epigenetic axis. The study further…
Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has co-authored a new research article titled “On Martínez-Kaabar fractal-fractional double Laplace transformation,” published in the Ain Shams Engineering Journal, an Elsevier journal ranked in the top 25% (Q1) of engineering journals with an Impact Factor of 5.9. The paper presents a significant…
Yan Zhou (Physics and Astronomy) received a five-year Early Career Award from the Department of Energy in the amount of $875,000. By integrating techniques from trapped-ion quantum information processing with the exceptional sensitivity of molecules, Zhou’s team will develop a tabletop experiment capable of probing combined Charge and Parity (CP)…
Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematics) has published new research article in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing (Q1 Journal according to the SCI-E of Web of Science), Journal of the Korean Society for Informatics and Computational Applied Mathematics, published by Springer Nature. The article introduces the Fractal-Fractional…
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…