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College of Sciences News

The School of Life Sciences offers programs that meet the needs of students intending to enter the workforce or pursue advanced training in the sciences, medicine, and other professional and technical fields. We provide a well-rounded foundation in natural, physical, and mathematical sciences that can set students up for successful careers and professional programs.

Current Sciences News

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Campus News |

Week-long program uncovers the 'hidden curriculum' in graduate education for students in STEM disciplines.

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Campus News |

A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.

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Research |

UNLV astrophysicists analyze data from Event Horizon Telescope’s groundbreaking imaging of Sagittarius A* and suggest it formed by merger of two black holes roughly 9 billion years ago.
 

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UNLV History |

UNLV grads and longtime event volunteers Kevin McVay and Robin Grove drop their Top 5 list of commemorative T-shirts from the annual event.

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People |

The development director helps build the future STEM workforce by connecting donors to student programs.

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Campus News |

Through the smiles and tears, parents at Rebel Ready Week share their thoughts on sending a child off to college.

Sciences In The News

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U.S. National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation has invested over $2.1 million in eight projects through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR). This investment, in collaboration with NASA, aims to strengthen research infrastructure, advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent development at six institutions in five U.S. states, and develop the next generation of leaders in STEM.

Las Vegas Sun

The monsoon season and the rain it usually produces has been abnormally dry this summer in Las Vegas. The season, which runs from June through mid-September, has dropped just 0.08 inches of rain here, according to the National Weather Service.

Financial Express

Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a mysterious past, and scientists have found some evidence to explain its behaviour. The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is located 26,000 light-years away from Earth in the center of our galaxy.

American Talk

Astronomers studying the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole have found “compelling evidence” that could finally help explain its mysterious past. Located 26,000 light-years away in the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A* is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4 million times the mass of our sun and 14.6 million miles (23.5 million kilometers) wide.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

While digging for garden soil, a Las Vegas farmer was shocked to find mammoth teeth, but now the rest of his discoveries are expected to cause a controversy as it may change 12,000 years of history. During a Protectors of Tule Springs meeting Tuesday night, Dr. Steve Rowland, a UNLV geoscience professor and paleontologist, helped present newly analyzed findings from a 30-year-old archeological dig field report from the Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary.

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Recent Sciences Accomplishments

Kingsley C. Ukandu (Mathematical Sciences) presented part of his work with Rachidi B. Salako (Mathematical Sciences) in a 30 minute talk titled "Structure of the Endemic Equilibria Set of an Epidemic Network Model as the Dispersal Rate of the Susceptible Population Varies" at the American Mathematical Society sectional meeting on "Recent…
Art Gelis (Radiochemistry) and collaborators from University of Illinois, Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory recently published an article titled, "X-ray Induced Cycling of Rare-Earth Elements between Bulk and Interfacial Liquid," in the journal ACS Applied Material & Interfaces. The research performed at UNLV was supported by the Nuclear…
Keith Lawler and Craig Schwartz (both Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory) have been awarded a four-year, $999,305 grant from the Department of Energy Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships program for their project "Probing Perovskite Chirality with the Orbital Angular Momentum of X-rays." This project seeks to exploit recent…
Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in…
Graduate student Simon Matin (Physics and Astronomy) was recently awarded a fellowship as part of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship program. This award recognizes Matin's accomplishments thus far and the strength of his proposed ongoing research work. The specific proposed project will simulate measurements of galaxies made with the…
Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) was awarded an NIH R16 grant ($0.75M) through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project titled, "Identifying tandem repeat expansion-mediated mechanisms of autism-risk genes." Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental conditions that affect communication and social…