The Division of Research is pleased to accept nominations for the 2025 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award. Nominations, including the completed application packet and materials supporting the nomination, are invited December 16, 2024 - January 26, 2025, 11:59pm.

The prestigious Harry Reid Silver State Research Award was created in 2001 to honor the late Nevada Senator Harry Reid and to recognize faculty who have performed research that is both highly regarded and responsive to the needs of the community and state. The award carries a $10,000 stipend. This award is presented by the President at the annual Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held in the Spring.

The award is open to full-time tenured faculty members who are engaged in significant research that meets one or more of the following criteria:

• Directly and positively affects the economic growth and development of Nevada;
• Addresses a relevant social need in the community and/or region;
• Demonstrably advances significant scholarship in an academic field of knowledge.

For more information and a guidance document please visit the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award. For questions, please contact Althea Sheets, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880.