May
Dr. Joshua Island, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNLV Department of Physics and Astronomy
"From a Pencil to a Quantum Computer"
April
Dr. Holly Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nevada State University Department of Physical and Life Sciences
"Arms Race Against Antibiotic Resistance: Strategies for Winning the Battle"
March
Dr. Chandrabali Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNLV Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"mRNA Nanomedicine: The Next-Generation Therapeutics"
February
Dr. Andrew Martin, Assistant Professor, UNLV Department of Geoscience
"An Oasis in the Deep: Exploring Beneath the Waves for Deep-sea Mineral Deposits"
November
Dr. Chandrabali Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNLV Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"mRNA Nanomedicine: The Next-Generation Therapeutics"
October
Dr. Nicole Pietrasiak, Associate Professor of Sustainable Arid Lands, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"The Enigmatic World of Biological Soil Crusts"
September
June
May
April
March
Dr. Carrie Tyler, Assistant Professor, UNLV Department of Geoscience
"Marine Food Webs: Lessons from the Ancient Past."
February
Dr. Simon Jowitt, Associate Professor of Economic Geology, UNLV Department of Geoscience
"Climate change mitigation and mining; a key relationship?"
December
Dr. Martin Jastroch, Associate Professor of Molecular Mammalian Physiology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
"Brown Fat: Our Secret Weapon Against Obesity"
November
Dr. Samantha John, Assistant Professor UNLV Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences
"Unequal Risk, Unequal Representation: Alzheimer's Disease Disparities”
October
Dr. Prasun Guha, Assistant Professor UNLV School of Life Sciences, NIPM
"New evidence in mice that cocaine makes brain cells cannibalize themselves"
September
Dr. Kristen Averyt, UNLV Research Professor
"What's up with Lake Mead?"
August
Dr. Kenneth McKenna, Visiting Assistant Professor, UNLV
"Morphological Murals: The development and evolution of butterfly color patterns"
July
Dr. Erick Bandala, Assistant Research Professor at Desert Research Institute
"Engineered technologies for the separation and degradation of microplastics in water"
June
Dr. Mark Buttner, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
"The Las Vegas Airborne Pollen Monitoring Program"
May
Dr. Justin Conner, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Do kidneys still function at lower temperatures?"
April
Dr. Amy Stone, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Touro University Nevada
"COVID-19 Antibodies - how they matter for Clark County"
March
Dr. Brian Labus, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
"Living with COVID, or just giving up?"
February
Dr. Matthew Medeiros, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Hawaiian Flies and their Gut Microbes"
December
Dr. Merrill Landers, UNLV Department of Physical Therapy
"A vicious cycle of fear of falling avoidance behavior in people with Parkinson's disease"
November
Dr. Dustin Hines, UNLV Department of Psychology
"Back to the Future: Psychedelics as Therapeutic Agents"
October
Dr. Carla Madelaire, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Resilience under challenge conditions: a physiological and epigenetic approach"
September
Dr. Marike Palmer, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Modern Explorers: Discovering, Understanding, and Naming Microbial Biodiversity
August
Dr. James Raymond, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Ice-Binding Proteins Allow Microorganisms to Live in Ice and Snow"
July
Dr. Rochelle Hines, UNLV Department of Psychology
"Building a Brain, It’s a Big Deal"
June
Dr. Brian Schilling, UNLV Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
"Human Performance in the Modern Military"
May
Dr. John Mercer, UNLV Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
"Physics and Physiology of Endurance Sport: Swim, Bike, and Run"
April
Dr. Sarah Harris, UNLV Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
"Robotics, Processors, and Human Interfaces"
March
Dr. Josh Greenwood, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Examining "Desiccation Tolerance in Mosses: Or How Mosses Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dryness"
February
Dr. Jeffrey L. Ebersole, UNLV School of Dental Medicine
"Longevity and Aging: Precision Oral Health Sciences for the 21st Century"
December
Dr. Michael Treat, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Hibernators Healing Humans: Potential Biomedical Lessons from Mammalian Hibernators"
November
Dr. Donald Price, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"Hawaiian Drosophila: How to Evolve 1,000 Species in Just 25 Million Years"
October
Dr. Edwin Oh, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
"Using Human Diagnostic and Wastewater Samples to Track COVID-19 Progression in Nevada"
September
Dr. Erick Bandala, Desert Research Institute
"Exposure to Extreme Heat in Las Vegas: What are the Effects on our Health?"
August
Dr. Christina Demopoulos, UNLV School of Dental Medicine
"The Mouth is Part of the Body Too"
July
Dr. Duane Moser, Desert Research Institute
"Life at the Edge: from the Deep Biosphere to Deep Space"
June
Ted Hartwell, Desert Research Institute
“A Study of the Impact of Problem Gambling in Nevada Tribal Communities, and an Update on Impacts of COVID-19 to Tribal Gaming”
March
Dr. Brittany Kruger, Assistant Research Scientist, Desert Research Institute
“Astrobiology: What life underground can teach us about life on other planets”
February
Dr. Veronique Demers-Mathieu, Senior Research Scientist, Medolac Laboratories
"How do human milk antibodies help to protect the immature gut in preterm infants against infections?"
December
Dr. Sean Neiswenter, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"RATS! A Tale of Conservation in a Human Modified Landscape"
November
Dr. Paul Schulte, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"How does water climb tall trees?"
October
Dr. Jef Jaeger, UNLV School of Life Sciences
"A Primer on the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Southern Nevada"
September
Dr. David Lee
"Run, Walk, or Crawl to the Pub: At What Cost?"
August
Dr. Boo Shan Tseng
"How Bacteria Build Strong Communities"
July
Dr. Allyson Hindle
"Southern Exposure: Science at the Bottom of the World"
June
Dr. Matthew Petrie
"Will we have forests in the future? An overview of declining tree regeneration in the western United States"
May
Dr. Mo Weng
"How Mechanical Force Sculptures an Embryo"
April
Dr. Ernesto Abel-Santos
"A New Strategy for the Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infections"
March
Dr. Alexis Billings
"It's not what you said, but how you said it": Animal communication across sensory systems"
February
Dr. Aude Picard
"Mining, Minerals and Microbes"
December
Dr. Arpita Basu
"Gestational Diabetes: Increasing Prevalence but Decreasing Solutions"
November
Dr. Erica Marti
"Water Reuse: Providing Water that is Dependable and Drinkable"
October
Dr. Nora Caberoy
“Alzheimer’s Disease: The Race to Finding a Cure”
September
Dr. Ross Newman
"How Do Clinical Trials Really Work?"
August
Dr. Haroon Stephen
"How is Spatial Reasoning Supported by GIS?"
June
Dr. Elizabeth Stacy
“Why Are There so Many Tree Species?”
May
Dr. Jefferson Kinney
"Investigations of Alzheimer's disease pathology and potential therapeutics"
April
Dr. Allen Gibbs
"Survival of the Fattest: Evolving Flies to Study Obesity"
March
Dr. Libby Hausrath
"What causes pink snow?: Interactions of snow algae, minerals and microorganisms in low-nutrient snowy environments"
February
Michael R. Schwemm, Ph.D.
"Importance of perennial springs in the evolution and conservation of arid land fishes"
December
Dr. Lawrence R. Walker
"Disasterology: The Science of Ecosystem Recovery"
November
Dr. Eduardo Robleto
"Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance: The Power of Evolution"
October
Dr. Ashkan Salamat
"Journey to the Center of the Earth"
September
Dr. Andrew Andres
"Steroids and Salivary Glands: Why Tissues Respond Differently to Hormones"
August
Dr. Matthew Lachniet
“A Climate Scientist in the Era of Alternative Reality”
July
Dr. Christy Strong
“Using molecular scissors to perform HIV genome surgery”
June
Dr. Lynn Fenstermaker
“Estimating Water Use from Satellite Observations”
May
Dr. Henry Sun
"Marble decay at the Forbidden City Mausoleum: Why the chemists may have got it wrong"
April
Dr. David Choate
"Cougars and their drinking problems? Living on the edge creates a predator-prey shell game in the northern Mojave Desert"
March
Dr. Daniel Thompson
"Why is the Mount Charleston Blue Butterfly Only on Mount Charleston?"
February
Dr. Philippos Tsourkas
"Bacteriophages: My Parasite’s Parasite is my Ally"
December
Dr. Stanley Hillyard
"The Devils Hole Pupfish: A Canary in the Coal Mine of Global Climate Change"
November
Dr. Steve Rowland
“Reconstructing Life Histories of Ice Age Elephants of Las Vegas Valley"
October
Dr. Brenda Buck
"Naturally Occurring Asbestos: An Emerging Health Hazard"
September
Dr. Brian Villmoare
"Hunting Fossil Humans in Deserts of East Africa"
August
Dr. Stan Smith
"Climate Change and the West"
July
Dr. Helen Wing
"Evolution of a Bacterial Pathogen: Hijacking, Silencing, and Toxic Effects"
June
Dr. Brian Hedlund
"Exploring Biodiversity in a Microbial World"
May
Dr. Jason Steffen
"Exoplanets"
April
Dr. Cheryl Radeloff
"Syphilis: The Science and Art of Diagnosis"
March
Dr. Arya Udry
"Martian Geology: New Discoveries From Rover, Orbiter, and Meteorite Data"
February
Dr. Frank van Breukelen
"Hibernation: Life Below Zero"
December
Dr. Martin Schiller
"Personal Genome Sequencing, Human Genetic Variation, and Health"
November
Dr. Scott Abella
"The Causes of the Carpenter Fire"