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2,192
Students
86.5
%
1st Year Retention Rate of Fall 2023 Student Cohort
What’s Happening
In the News
Gizmodo
Researchers at the University of Nevada have demonstrated that water can adopt a more asymmetric atomic structure when subjected to extreme pressures.
Ashkan Salamat
Associate Professor of Physics
The Debrief
Water behaves strangely under extreme conditions beyond Earth, according to new research highlighting the unexpected realities that may one day greet future astronauts.
Ashkan Salamat
Associate Professor of Physics
Universe Today
Every human being has an all-encompassing relationship with water that spans their entire lifetime. Our bodies are 50% water. We drink water, bathe in it, and swim in it. We skate on it, snowboard on it, and have snowball fights with it. We can take its familiarity for granted.
Ashkan Salamat
Associate Professor of Physics
Accomplishments
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave a Zoom presentation of the paper, "Perspecitves on Study Guides in the Pedagogy Session" during the fall meeting of the Southern California-Nevada section of the Mathematical Association of America, held in Fullerton, California, on Oct. 24, 2026.
Prasun Guha (Life Sciences) was selected as a speaker at the international meeting on "Inositol Phosphate and Pyrophosphate Signalling" held at York University in England, where he delivered a talk on October 15.
Experts
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
An expert in ecology, fire management, and U.S. National Parks.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
An expert on math, scientific computing, and deep learning.
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
A medicinal chemist with expertise in mRNA, gene and drug delivery, and nanomedicine.