In The News: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Chemical & Engineering News

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Entomology Today

It’s a beekeeper’s nightmare: She lifts the lid on her carefully tended hive and is greeted with a whiff of rotting flesh. Further inspection finds that the young bees of the colony, who should be plump, pearly-white larvae, have melted into a puddle of brownish goo at the bottom of their cells. This colony is infected with American foulbrood disease—most likely a death sentence.

Science Magazine

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree. Instead, students need to learn and practice a range of safety skills, according to guidelines for undergraduate education issued last year by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Among other skills, students must be taught how to understand categories of hazards, “recognize … hazards in laboratories, assess the risks from these hazards, know how to minimize the risks, and prepare for emergencies,” the guidelines say.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Electric car company Tesla is forging a formal research partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

KSNV-TV: News 3

UNLV and Tesla Motors have teamed up to give a jolt to Nevada’s economy and UNLV’s engineering program.

Las Vegas Sun

After nearly a year of construction on its gigafactory near Reno, the electric car and battery company Tesla is extending its influence to the southern half of the state.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas hopes to boost ongoing efforts to improve its reputation as a research institution through a newly launched partnership with Tesla Motors.

KNPR News

Over the next five years, UNLV researchers will get to know a lot about batteries thanks to a partnership agreement between electric car manufacturer Tesla and the university.

Las Vegas Review Journal
Two tractor-trailer rigs rolled out of the Environmental Protection Agency‘s gated lot across from UNLV on Monday on a journey to relocate equipment for gauging radioactive contamination to an EPA facility in Montgomery, Ala.
NBC Los Angeles

One of the government’s best weapons for responding to a nuclear terrorist attack or accident in Southern California is being moved 2000 miles away Monday, despite objections from experts and some government officials, the NBC4 I-Team has learned.

Las Vegas Review Journal
The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to relocate a state-of-the-art radiation monitoring laboratory from Las Vegas to Alabama, a move that has drawn protests from nuclear safety activists and officials from Nevada and California.
Las Vegas Review Journal
If you mentioned nuclear and Las Vegas in the same sentence 60 years ago, the conversation probably centered on the Nevada Test Site.