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1st year retention rate of Fall 2022 student cohort

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Las Vegas Review Journal
Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, but the area was vandalized soon after.
Space.com
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to sit on the tip of a needle.
KVVU-TV: Fox 5
New research and samples released today by NASA and UNLV show some early results of a years long mission dedicated to determining whether the planet Mars ever supported life.

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Accomplishments

Quinn Summerfield (Radiochemistry) has been selected as a 2025 Graduate Scholarship recipient by the Roy G. Post Foundation. In a recent press release, the Foundation announced they will be awarding 56 scholarships totaling $310,000 in support of advancing the education of future leaders in…
Dr. Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and her team used deep learning AI techniques to develop genetic models based on polygenic risk scores (PRS). A PRS functions like a genetic risk calculator, combining the effects of thousands of small genetic variations to estimate the…

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Experts

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Professor, Life Sciences

Brian Hedlund in an expert in microbial ecology at high temperatures, biofuels and genomics. 

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Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

An expert in genetics and neurological diseases.

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Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences

An expert in ecology, fire management, and U.S. National Parks.

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