David James (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) participated in the TedXLasVegasLive event this month at the Springs Preserve. Director of solar and renewable energy programs at UNLV, he is an expert on the interactive sustainability panel. The all-day event brought together local gurus on important topics concerning…

Paul Oh (Mechanical Engineering) and his team of UNLV researchers and students are being featured in the Nova special, "Rise of the Robots," which will air  at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 on Vegas PBS. In spring 2015, UNLV's team, DRC-HUBO@UNLV, competed in the international Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robotics challenge,…

Justin Zhan (Computer Science) has been appointed a voting member of the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security (Commission) Cyber Security Committee by Gov. Brian Sandoval. The Cyber Security Committee is responsible for providing advice and recommendations to the commission on Nevada's cybersecurity risk, cyber threat preparedness posture,…

Undergraduate and graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering program participated in the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing held in Las Vegas Dec. 14-16. Students who were part of presenting four papers included: Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi (PhD), B. Morris: ” Vision-based Vehicle Counting with High…

Susan Wainscott (Libraries) has been a key partner in a year-long, federally funded, multidisciplinary review conducted by the UNLV College of Engineering faculty of available literature and data on renewable energy and water resource projects in central Africa. She trained the research team in search strategies, assisted with hard-…

Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the UNLV nuclear science and engineering fellowship program. Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four…

Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) and Edward Neumann (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction, Emeritus) spoke during the 2015 World Congress of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics in Lyon, France. Their presentation, "Optimizing Functions for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation: Clinicians' Perspective on…

Sue Wainscott (Libraries), John Novak (Libraries), and Mohamed Trabia (Engineering) are participating in the 2015 cohort of the Digital Library Federation E-Research Network. The goal of the network is to create a mutually supportive community engaged in continuous learning about e-research and data management support. The UNLV team will produce a…

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering) was selected to join the U.S. delegation and attend the 2015 Interdisciplinary Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany. She is one of 55 U.S. students chosen by Oak Ridge Associated Universities to participate in this international scientific meeting with 70 Nobel Laureates in attendance.…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) just published a paper in Scientific Reports. The title of the paper is "Nanothorn Electrodes for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Artificial Muscles."

Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) for "seminal contributions to computational environmental fluid dynamics." The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of ICCES 15, which…

Kishor Shrestha, Pramen Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Evangelos Yfantis (Computer Science) are co-authors of a book, Framework Development for Construction Safety Visualization, that is based on Kishor Shrestha's thesis.