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Current Research News
UNLV-led research team uses wastewater surveillance to suss out C. auris strains with greater precision, paving way for potential new therapeutic development.
Interdisciplinary team will perform computational modeling, experimental design, and develop AI database to identify natural materials for rapid construction in challenging environments.
Report reveals operators and regulators with high ambitions but significant gaps in governance, oversight, and AI maturity.
New Ph.D. graduate Taylor Gerson credits faculty for putting her on the path toward graduate research.
For IGI's community programs manager, the answer is always 'YES' when it comes to supporting career development in youth.
The mergers, measured one month apart in 2024 by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, advance scientific understanding of the nature of black hole formation and fundamental physics; offer evidence of "second-gen" black holes.
Research In The News
Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.
Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.
Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.
Nevada forfeits an estimated US$80 million in annual cannabis tax revenue because state regulations impose a 1,500-foot buffer between cannabis retailers and gaming venues, preventing sales in and around the Las Vegas Strip, according to a UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute report published on Thursday.
The findings emerged from the 3rd Annual Gaming & Cannabis Policy Discussion, hosted by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Cannabis Policy Institute and International Gaming Institute. Lawmakers and officials at the event discussed the implications of regulations that prevent the full integration of the licensed cannabis sector with the state’s established gaming industry.
UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute reports state losing tons of money from keeping them separated
