Accomplishments: Office of Undergraduate Research
On Thursday, June 15, 2023, OUR’s Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal’s Vol. 3, Issue 1 went live with four undergraduate research articles. This issue celebrates the work of undergraduate researchers representing three academic departments: department of history, School of Life Sciences, and department of civil and environmental engineering…
The office of undergraduate research (OUR) was awarded the Nevada Commission on Mentoring (NCOM) Spring 2023 Micro-grant for the project, “Expanding Research Education Program (REP) for High School Students Across Academic Disciplines." The funds, acquired by Levent Atici, executive director of undergraduate research and PI, and Rafael…
Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) attended the annual NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) PI meeting that was held at the National Science Foundation Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 15-16, 2023.
The mission of NSF EPSCoR is to enhance the research competitiveness of targeted jurisdictions (…
Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) co-organized and co-chaired a workshop for the Virtual Summit of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) on May 15, 2023. The session, titled The HSRU Potential for Increasing the Impact of Undergraduate Research on Hispanic Students’ Readiness for Success in Graduate School, was one…
The office of undergraduate research (OUR) has awarded $19,500 in Named Fellowship Program funds, marking UNLV’s commitment to expanding and supporting undergraduate research. UNLV’s administrative leadership endorsed this program to foster direct undergraduate student participation in research, to fulfill UNLV’s student-centered mission, to…
Professor Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research, Anthropology) is the lead editor of a new book titled, Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives, published through the University Press of Colorado. Atici also has co-authored a chapter in the book.
Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence,…
Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) participated in a project led by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) geneticists together with a team of international collaborators, to discover a previously-unknown lineage of wild goats from bone over ten-millennia old. The new goat type referred to as “the Taurasian tur," are likely survivors of the…
Doctoral student Rachel DeWald (Psychology, Brain Health) received the Spring 2022 cover artwork award for the Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal. The Office of Undergraduate Research solicits student submissions for the award to have a student-designed cover for each spring and fall issue. The competitive award intends to foster student…
The National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program awarded Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research), Sarah Harris (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), and Kurt Regner (Life Sciences) a Research Infrastructure Improvement grant in the amount of $999,955 for the project titled "Enhancing the Transition of COVID-19…
Ayla Gelsinger (Communication Studies and Psychology) received the Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal Best Article Award for the work, A Critical Analysis of the Body Positive Movement on Instagram: How Does it Really Impact Body Image?, which published in Spectra’s inaugural fall 2020 issue. Sponsored by the office of undergraduate research (…
Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research, Anthropology) has co-authored an article entitled “Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene finds from the 2020 sounding excavation at Girmeler, Southwestern Turkey” in the 2021 issue of peer-reviewed European journal Anatolica.
The paper sheds new light on the origins and spread of farming economies in…
Kaleb Wesolek (Art) has received the Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal Cover Artwork Award and will have his artwork featured on the cover of the July issue of the Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal. Sponsored by the office of undergraduate research, the award is designed to foster student participation in the undergraduate research…