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…

Donald Price (Life Sciences) was part of a team including scientists from Stanford University, Yale University, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, University of North Carolina, University of California Davis, Bangor University, Case Western Reserve University, Syracuse University, Syracuse, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Czech Academy of Sciences,…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker for the XXVIth International Society for Eye Research Biennial Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her talk was titled "Mechanisms regulating plasticity during embryonic eye regrowth." She presented her research group's findings on the molecular pathways that control eye stem cells and…

Steve Rowland (Geoscience) published "The Cambrian of the Grand Canyon: Refinement of a Classic Stratigraphic Model" in GSA Today with Carol Dehler, professor at Utah State University; James Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Frederick Sundberg, Karl Karlstrom and Laura Crossey of the University of New Mexico; and…

Thomas Lamont (Geology) had a paper titled, "Porphyry copper formation driven by water fluxed crustal anatexis during flat-slab subduction," published on Nov. 4 in Nature Geoscience. It has long been recognized that many of the worlds largest porphyry copper deposits (copper ore formed by magmatic-hydrothermal fluids associated with granitic…

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) published a book, Hidden in the Heavens, with Princeton University Press. The book is about the NASA Kepler mission, which was instrumental in the discovery of over 5000 planets that orbit distant stars. Steffen was a member of the science team for that mission and was co-chair of one of the working groups.

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…

Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and Alisa Watjara, (Sciences) are the recipients of the 2024-2025 UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of advising and supporting students. Their award applications have been forwarded on to the NSHE level Academic…

Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving as Principal Investigator for all three. These grants will support his cutting-edge research in astrophysics and planetary science. The NSF Astronomy and…