News: College of Sciences

SEFTY Summer '24
People |

Professor Edwin Oh’s 'SEFTY' program is providing a slice of life for future scientists, giving high schoolers an authentic lab experience.

Martin Schiller Lab
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Professor Marty Schiller talks about his business and how UNLV made it possible.

group posing in front of sign that reads Ice Age Fossils State Park
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GeoPaths program leads to more student-centered and interactive Earth science classes.

Josh Hawkins, UNLV
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News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.

Math equations superimposed over a world map and textbooks.
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After 50 years at UNLV, Satish Bhatnagar finds that learning the history of mathematics — or any subject — provides a deeper understanding of the world around us.

Artist rendering of NASA Swift Satellite
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Two studies pair observational data with machine learning models to increase precision in distance estimates for GRBs. 

Madison Montellano
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Madison Montellano knows what it means to take the road less traveled, embracing each twist and turn through her academic adventure.

commencement profile (josh hawkins/unlv)
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President Keith E. Whitfield honors six graduates who have shown exemplary commitment to both the community and their studies.

students in spring
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News highlights starring UNLV students and faculty who made local and national headlines.

a crane pours glowing hot steel into a large vat
Research |

Funding is part of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to develop zero emissions ironmaking and ultra-low life cycle emissions steelmaking.

A view of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park from the Rim Trail
Campus News |

UNLV geology class challenges students to answer the question: How green is green? 

AI rendering of binary planets orbiting eachother
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Study in Nature Astronomy theorizes that dense stellar clusters may eject pairs of giant planets, which remain gravitationally bound to one another.