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Daily Express
Gardening and bird watching often go hand-in-hand with the feathered visitors bringing joy to many a British home, but experts say there are six things to avoid if you want to attract more avians.
Willamette Week
One way to make money is to get your planes back in the air quickly, but another way is just to torture your passengers until they give it to you directly.
Martha Stewart
Foxes are vital to ecosystems, helping reduce rodent and rabbit populations. However, they can also dig holes in yards, get into trash, tear up fencing, and steal fruits and vegetables from gardens. While they certainly are important, you may not want them in your yard all the time. Fortunately, there are ways to naturally and humanely deter them—here, we spoke with experts about a few go-to methods.
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UNLV graduate student and faculty microbiologists traveled to Tuba City, in the Navajo Nation for the regional American Society for Microbiology conference. Microbiologists from across Arizona and Southern Nevada attended to share their research. Three UNLV graduate students were awarded prizes for…
Fabian Vargas Rowan, a prospective Ph.D. student at UNLV, has been awarded the 2026 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Beginning in fall 2026, he will join Yan Zhou’s group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy to work on developing novel quantum sensors aimed at…
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Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
A medicinal chemist with expertise in mRNA, gene and drug delivery, and nanomedicine.

Professor Emeritus of Hydrology, College of Sciences
An expert on water resources, paleoclimatology, and environmental pollution.

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


