UNLV undergraduates from Jingchun Chen’s Lab Lead Alzheimer’s Research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Two undergraduate researchers from Jingchun Chen’s lab at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM), Tyrell Pratt (School of Integrated Health Sciences) and Alice Lee (School of Life Sciences), have achieved…

Kelly Tseng  (Life Sciences) has been recognized as a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, a platform that identifies leading researchers worldwide based on the impact and volume of their scholarly contributions. Tseng was ranked in the top 0.5% of nearly 96,000 researchers globally in Regeneration Biology. Her award-winning research explores…

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new article in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a global synthesis of precipitation memory effects in plant growth titled, "Lagged precipitation effects on plant production across terrestrial biomes."

A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed a lipid nanoparticle platform that can deliver mRNA intravenously to the pancreas with an unprecedented 99% selectivity. This work was published in Advanced Materials, titled "Reengineering Endogenous Targeting Lipid Nanoparticles (ENDO) for…

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored two synthesis journal articles in Global Change Biology, one titled, "Identifying the Climate Conditions Associated With Extreme Growth States in Trees Across the Western United States," and the second titled, "Precipitation Pulse Dynamics Are Not Ubiquitous: A Global Meta-Analysis of Plant and Ecosystem…

The Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Student Success is excited to announce the 2024-2025 award winners of the academic advising awards through UNLV and NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. Learn more about our accomplished colleagues and how they have contributed to the UNLV and academic advising community in this…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences), in collaboration with Becky Ostertag at the University of Hawaii, published: "Niche conservatism and sympatric parallel evolution may help to maintain eight nascent tree taxa along a sharp elevation gradient," in Functional Ecology. They asked how eight races, varieties, and species of ʻŌhiʻa trees (Hawaiian…

Ph.D. candidate Josie Libero-Cruzado and Ph.D. student Becca Manns, along with faculty advisors Frederic Poineau and Dan Koury (all Chemistry and Biochemistry), recently published an article in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Their research, "Diffusion and phase formation in the γ-uranium-technetium system," expands on known uranium-…

Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) published a research article titled "Dynamics of Solutions to a Multi-patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism," in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.  The paper analyzed the behavior of disease dynamics across multiple interconnected patches (regions), incorporating a…

Assistant professor Jingchun Chen and undergraduate students Melika Cummings, Tyrell Pratt, Alice Lee, Eunjae Lee, Jennifer Zheng, Faria Tavacoli (all Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) presented at the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), a premier academic event that celebrates undergraduate achievements across…

Congratulations to the UNLV racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for UNLV. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…

Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Krzysztof Sobczak from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland have been awarded a grant through the “Initiative of Excellence - Research University” program, funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. This grant will support…