Research
| February 27, 2013
Steamed, Dehydrated or Raw: Placentas May Help Moms’ Post-Partum Health
UNLV anthropology survey examines why women consume their placentas after childbirth.
Topic: research
Campus News
| November 28, 2012
Southern Nevada Housing Market Shows Signs of Recovery, CBER Report Finds
Vegas housing prices grew by almost 6 percent in 2012, but nearly 60 percent of Nevada homeowners have negative equity
People
| November 13, 2012
Extreme Jobs: Deadliest Catch
To discover what's happening with the bighorn sheep population, David Choate must track cougars in the National Desert Wildlife Refuge.
People
| November 8, 2012
Extreme Jobs: In Hot Water
Microbiologist Brian Hedlund knows from experience just how dangerous a hot spring can be.
Research
| November 1, 2012
Silver State Scholars
The Harry Reid Silver State Research Award honors the best of UNLV’s faculty researchers.
Research
| November 1, 2012
Research in Print: Fall 2012
Faculty authors explore Spanish vanguard poetry, fatherhood, multi-modal learning, and more.
Research
| November 1, 2012
Research Briefs: Fall 2012
Discovery of a new scorpion species; medication errors by domestically and internationally trained nurses; magnetic bacteria with potential for the biotech industry; stalagmites act as rain gauges; and UNLV’s institutional repository.
Research
| November 1, 2012
A Career Achievement
An elite group of UNLV faculty have been honored with the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Career Award, which is designed “to establish a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.”
Research
| November 1, 2012
Silver State Scholars: Yim
The Harry Reid Silver State Research Award honors the best of UNLV’s faculty researchers.
Research
| November 1, 2012
A Career Achievement: Lee
Meet Dong-Chan Lee, one of several UNLV recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.
Research
| November 1, 2012
A Career Achievement: Rennels
Meet Jennifer Rennels, one of several UNLV recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.
Research
| November 1, 2012
Advances in Adolescent Education
As new technologies are being developed, new opportunities for educational resources are increasingly available to teachers and students. In his recent book, UNLV education professor Tom Bean lays out strategies for taking advantage of these resources and incorporating them into the classroom to help students achieve success in the technology age.