Pradip K. Bhowmik (Chemistry) was recently (17 December, 2024) honored to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom for his outstanding contributions to chemistry and outstanding services to global scientific community.   

Quinn Summerfield (Radiochemistry) has been selected as a 2025 Graduate Scholarship recipient by the Roy G. Post Foundation. In a recent press release, the Foundation announced they will be awarding 56 scholarships totaling $310,000 in support of advancing the education of future leaders in radioactive waste management and nuclear fields. Quinn…

Faculty from the radiochemistry Ph.D. program recently published an article in the journal Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange examining systems that could benefit the ability to use nuclear energy as a reliable energy source with net-zero carbon oxide emission. The article titled, "Speciation of Uranium in Solvent Extraction Systems…

Arumugam Jayaraman's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) involvement in research work with researchers in Germany led to a publication in the ACS Inorganic Chemistry Journal. The work involves exploring a specific nickel complex's novel chemistry. This research not only helps deepen our understanding of coordination chemistry and the behavior of pogo-…

Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) participated in a large study led by the group at the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. Their research focused on the hyper-unstable Chr9p21 locus associated with multiple diseases, including C9orf72-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). They showed that GGGGCC tandem…

  The First-Gen Essay Competition is part of the annual campus-wide First-Generation Celebration held each year in November. The contest allows first-generation undergraduate and graduate students to share personal stories about their first-generation journeys at UNLV. Nearly 40 students participated in this year's…

Radiochemistry Ph.D. candidate, Nicholas Cicchetti (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was recently published in the ACS Publication, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. The article titled, "A Rapid Microfluidic Neptunium Extraction Using a Supported Liquid Membrane Module," is the result of work supported by the Research…

Frederic Poineau (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was published in Communication Chemistry, an open access journal from the Nature Portfolio. The article titled "Pivotal role of 99Tc NMR spectroscopy in solid-state and molecular chemistry" is the result of an international collaboration examining the continued use of 99Tc NMR…

A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed ionizable lipids with a tetrahydropyrimidine (THP) backbone for RNA delivery, utilizing a one-pot multicomponent reaction. This work was published in ACS Nano, titled "Tetrahydropyrimidine Ionizable Lipids for Efficient mRNA Delivery." Abstract Lipid…

Alexander Barzilov, Woosoon Yim (both Mechanical Engineering), Artem Gelis (Radiochemistry), and Ke-Xun Sun (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were awarded a five-year, $5,000,000 renewal grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration through the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) to continue research projects of…

A peer reviewed manuscript by authors professor Frederic Poineau (Radiochemistry) and Ph.D. candidate Harry Jang has been accepted for publication by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The article titled, "Revealing Uranium Tetrafluoride Microrods," represents the first time uranium tetrafluoride microrods were prepared by chemical…

Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) participated in a study led by the group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Their research focused on the regulatory mechanisms of microRNA biogenesis in developing skeletal muscles. They identified that muscleblind-like splicing regulator (MBNL) proteins influence the processing and expression of microRNAs…