Meet Brian Hedlund, 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.

Meet Frank van Breukelen, 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.

An intensive mentorship program for first-generation students places undergraduates in the lab and out in the field. The goal is to inspire students to strive beyond their bachelor's degrees.

Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.

Carmen on starving bacteria and the transition from art student to biologist.

Elementary teachers head to summer school to bone up on science.

Alumna Daliah (Zodieru) Wachs expands her practice to thousands through satellite radio call-in show.

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.

A new species of scorpions nearly squirmed past a couple of UNLV graduate students. The story behind the Death Valley arthropod's discovery.

UNLV employees recently were honored at the 2012 Academic Recognition Ceremony with systemwide and universitywide awards for notable research, teaching, and service.

Lecture leads to dramatic diagnosis for an ailing grandfather 1,300 miles away.

Biology lecture leads to dramatic diagnosis for an ailing grandfather 1,300 miles away.