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College of Sciences News

In the College of Sciences, discovery and education go hand-in-hand to provide innovative and engaging learning environments to enable students to go on to successful careers as researchers, educators, private-industry scientists, and health professionals.

Current Sciences News

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People |

Created in honor of longtime staff member, a new geoscience scholarship celebrates 50 years of change while helping the next generation of scientists.

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Research |

UNLV-led study used long-term health data from nearly 1,000 participants to track relationship between DNA methylation and blood pressure.

Wetlands Park
Research |

Through field work at the Clark County Wetlands, two UNLV graduate students are providing scientific data to help restore habitats and evaluate the health of its newest trees.

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Campus News |

A program in the School of Life Sciences is improving retention and graduation rates through mentoring services and better course design.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Research |

Researchers in UNLV’s Guha Lab are finding simple solutions to the problem of leaky gut that could improve future therapeutics. 

Sciences In The News

Las Vegas Sun

When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.

The Eastern Herald

The new GWTC-5.0 catalog adds 161 black hole collision events, confirming Hawking's theorem and identifying second-generation black holes for the first time.

The Pure Water Gazette

A LiveScience study says probably not. On the water side of the equation, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that Earth has about 1.4 billion gigatons of water, including that in oceans, ice caps, glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater and vapor.

Us Weekly

Maybe you have ordered an at-home microbiome test and waited on a report full of unfamiliar bacteria names. Maybe you are just watching friends compare their results. Either way, the gut has become something people study rather than ignore. That attention raises a fair question about which foods and compounds genuinely help. The latest contender is one that nutritionists spent years telling you to limit.

WYPL-FM 89.3

Dr. Kelly Tseng a professor in the School Of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, discusses how discovering the method in which frogs are able to regenerate eye tissue could lead to finding out how to replicate the process in humans.

Unicorn Riot

Energy Fuels mines uranium-laden limestone found in the area around Red Butte in a process known as breccia pipe mining. David Kramer, a hydrogeologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, explained the process to a crowd of attendees at the summit.

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Recent Sciences Accomplishments

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…
Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) presented her research findings on “Dynamics of Solutions to a Multiple-Patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism” at the ICM 2026 Satellite Conference, held from June 1-5, 2026, under the theme Industrial and Computational Mathematics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Numerical…
Grace O. Adenuga (Mathematical Sciences) presented “Statistical Assessment of Drought–Yield Sensitivity: Regression and Spatial Evidence” at the ICM @ ICM 2026 Satellite Conference hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Morgan State University. The study demonstrated how statistical modeling and spatial analysis can be integrated to identify…
Kevin McVay (College of Sciences Advising Center) and Charlene Gonzales (Career and Professional Development Office, Lee Business School), alongside colleagues Andrea Aduna from San Diego State University and Derek Furukawa from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, recently presented at the 2026 NACADA Region 8/9 Conference in San Diego, California…
Bernard Zygelman (Physics and Astronomy) attended the San Diego Quantum Convening, held at the Qualcomm Institute on the Campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on May 18-19. An invitation-only event, "The Quantum San Diego Convening (QSDC) is a 1.5-day gathering bringing together leaders from industry, academia, national…