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While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.
Michael Pravica
Professor, Physics
From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter of a century of drought.
WTVG 13 Action News
The next time you’re in one of Toledo’s 19 Metroparks, you might see a bunch of 4 feet tall plastic tubes with trees growing out of them. But that’s not litter: those plastic tubes are actually helping the trees grow.
Scott Abella
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Accomplishments
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) was invited to become a charter member of the Board of Editors of a new journal, Vedic Science Journal (India). Also, for the last twenty years, he has been on he Board of Editors of Ganit Bharati, Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics…
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative…
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Professor, UNLV Department of Geoscience
Carrie Tyler is a marine conservation paleobiologist.
Associate Professor-in-Residence, School of Life Sciences
An expert on mammals.
Professor of Biology
An expert on the evolution of bird, bat, and insect species.