News: Division of Research

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UNLV’s Office of Economic Development provides four tips to avoid a business fail, even if you think you already know everything about entrepreneurship.

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UNLV's on-campus Student Health Center Pharmacy will support clinical studies that can help new medications and devices make it to market.

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The Research & Creative Honors Program helps UNLV undergrads prepare for graduate research work.

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When toxic masculinity is part of a culture, male survivors of childhood abuse may turn to crime as a way to reclaim their masculinity.

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Embracing contradiction made statistics doctoral student Sharang Chaudhry a better research presenter.

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With support from McNair Scholars program, undergraduate students spent their summer leading research with the mentorship of faculty.

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Do children raised by male caregivers have different perceptions of gender as a result of who raised them? This psychology major spent her summer exploring the question.

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Some students spent their summer lounging peacefully at the pool. Zantana Ephrem spent hers studying just war theory.  

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This student’s summer research on microaggressions against queer black males was no small task.

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Solar power is the future of energy, and this undergraduate engineering student is working on the future of solar cells.

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That pain in your neck may be from your tablet device, how librarians help keep students in school, a research course that has undergrads digging up viruses, and more.

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UNLV anthropology researchers Daniel Benyshek, Laura Gryder, and Sharon Young found that placentophagy may not deliver the benefits practitioners anticipate.