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In the News
Simply Recipes
I’ve picked up a few tips in the restaurants and food service jobs I’ve worked at over the years. One habit that I’ve picked up from restaurant life is that any time I use a dishcloth, it’s getting tossed in the laundry.
Brian Hedlund
Professor, Life Sciences
Science Blog
Ask people why summer is hot, and a lot of them give the same answer: Earth must be closer to the Sun.The truth runs exactly backwards from the hunch.
Jason Steffen
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
When Sophia Lorenzana took an ornithology class at UNLV as an undergraduate student, she never imagined it would spark a love for one of the area’s most underrated natural resources: Wetlands Park.
Scott Abella
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Accomplishments
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—…
UNLV has received a $1 million award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of the national Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative. Led by the Graduate College in partnership with the colleges of Sciences and Engineering, the four-year initiative will provide…
Experts
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
A medicinal chemist with expertise in mRNA, gene and drug delivery, and nanomedicine.
Professor, Biochemistry
An expert in biochemistry.
Professor in Residence, School of Life Sciences
An expert in conservation biology, phylogeography, and ecology.