News: School of Life Sciences
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Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.
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Carmen on starving bacteria and the transition from art student to biologist.
Elementary teachers head to summer school to bone up on science.
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Nine students, including a mother of two who after years of working as a dental hygienist received her dental degree and became class valedictorian, are being honored as spring 2012 Outstanding Graduates.
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A new species of scorpions nearly squirmed past a couple of UNLV graduate students. The story behind the Death Valley arthropod's discovery.
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UNLV employees recently were honored at the 2012 Academic Recognition Ceremony with systemwide and universitywide awards for notable research, teaching, and service.
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UNLV ecologist Scott Abella says full recovery of desert ecosystems can take up to 65 years.
Biology and Honors College graduate Emily Tamadonfar was the recipient of UNLV's 100,000th degree.