Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health) received a UNLV IDeA Pilot Grant in the amount of $70,389 for his pilot study to develop personalized bone mineral density reference values. The study seeks to determine how genetic factors contribute to normal bone mineral density variation in…

Martin Schiller (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics, along with peers at other institutions, recently published research findings about “The Functional Human C-Terminome” in PLoS ONE. Schiller’s publication announces a new “-ome” (or part) of a protein region called the C-terminal…

Liam Frink (Research and Economic Development) is the author of A Tale of Three Villages (University of Arizona Press, 2016), an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from just prior to the time of Russian and Euro-North American contact to the mid-twentieth century. Frink focuses on…

Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently received an $876,229 National Science Foundation grant for his project, "Collaborative Proposal: Biodiversity Discovery and Analysis of 'Aigarchaeota', a Globally Distributed But Poorly Understood Archaeal Lineage." The grant is for three years.    

Sue DiBella (Division of Research and Economic Development) co-edited a recently published book titled Implementing a Comprehensive Research Compliance Program: A Handbook for Research Officers with Aurali Dade (George Mason University) and Lori Olafson (Office of Research Integrity). DiBella also authored a chapter titled, “Communication Issues…

Margot Mink Colbert (Dance) was honored to have been invited to participate in UNLV’s first annual Summer Proposal Writing Institute, which took place in June. Five workshop sessions culminated in a grant submission to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a project in the dance department. “100 Years and Beyond: Contemporary Ballet in the…

Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) for "seminal contributions to computational environmental fluid dynamics." The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of ICCES 15, which…

Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) was an invited speaker at the Lead and Healthy Homes regional meeting that took place in Orlando in May. She made presentations during two sessions. The first was Critical Factors Necessary to Create and Sustain a Successful Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. The other was Easing the Pain and Cost of…

Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center) conducted a presentation titled "Atomic Time Machines: Back to the Future of Nuclear Power Part II" at the 2012 Community Environmental Monitoring Program Annual Symposium held at the Desert Research Institute in July. He also served as a panelist for a discussion of the Fukushima reactor disaster in Japan, "17…

Charlotta Sanders (Harry Reid Center) and R.R. Lehman presented "Development of a UNLV Nuclear Criticality Safety Program in Conjunction with Support by URENCO USA" at the 2012 winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society in San Diego in November. The presentation also will be published by the society.

Wayne Stolte (Harry Reid Center) has had four articles published recently. They are: Electronic Structure of Polycrystalline Cadmium Dichloride Studied by X-ray Spectroscopies and ab Initio Calculations, which appeared in Materials Chemistry and Physics. Anionic and Cationic Photodissociation of the Chloroform Molecule Excited in the…

Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) is an invited speaker at the upcoming Lead and Healthy Housing Conference that will take place at the Marina Del Ray in Los Angeles later this month. She will moderate a workshop based on her dissertation work for the critical factors necessary to develop a successful lead poisoning prevention program. The…