Accomplishments: College of Sciences
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…
Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences), Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), and Christy Strong (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers at South Dakota State University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, were awarded a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Through collaboration of biologists, mathematicians,…
Mohammed K A Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has been included in the 2025 Elsevier–Stanford list of the world’s top 2% scientists in the fields of General Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.
The full dataset can be accessed at the Elsevier Digital Commons Data webpage. For your convenience, my name can be found in the…
Donald Price, Kristian West, Michelle Cevallos-Zea. and Matthew Medeiros (all Life Sciences), along with Sara Cahan, Joaquin Nunez, and Emily Longman from the University of Vermont and Joanne Yew from the University of Hawaii, have recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Kristian West and Michelle Cevallos-Zea have…
Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was featured in the article, “Neuromuscular Disease Research: Going Strong," published in the special 75th anniversary issue of Quest, which is dedicated to the unstoppable community the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) serves every day.
MDA is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United…
Chandra Bhattacharya (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a $1.88M Early Stage Investigator (ESI) R35 MIRA grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). This prestigious five-year award will support the Bhattacharya lab's research on developing innovative lipid nanoparticle platforms for targeted mRNA delivery -…
Ph.D. student Keegan Hammond (Life Sciences), a student researcher in the Dryland Ecohydrology lab, was selected for the Natural Resources Workforce Development fellowship as part of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Hammond will join a cohort of seven graduate students to gain experience in developing actionable, use-inspired…
On Aug. 12, Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave an hour-long talk (on Google Meet) on the Importance of American Ph.D. in Mathematics to over 100 students in the Division of Science of Central University of Assam, Tezpur (India), established in 1994.
A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed a lipid nanoparticle platform that can deliver mRNA intravenously to the spleen with 99% selectivity. This work was published in Small, titled "Endogenous Corticosteroid Derived Lipid Nanoparticles (Cortico LNPs) Enable Selective mRNA Delivery to…
Radiochemistry Ph.D. candidate Becca Manns (Chemistry) is the recipient of a prestigious Rickover Fellowship from the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF). The appointment, which begins Sept. 1, is offered to students in pursuit of graduate study and research supportive of the mission and goals of…