Brian Hedlund, Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng (both Life Sciences), Dharini Bhammar, Arpita Basu (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Sarah Harris (Electrical and Computer Engineering) participated in the annual statewide Nevada-INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) meeting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno last month. The faculty…

Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences) and Matthew Bernacki, formerly of UNLV's department of educational psychology and higher education, published "Voluntary Web-Based Self-Assessment Quiz Use is Associated with Improved Exam Performance, Especially for Learners with Low Prior Knowledge" in HAPS Educator, the official publication of the Human Anatomy and…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematics) was invited to speak to students and faculty of the Government Rajindra College, Bathinda, in India. The college is his alma mater. The topic of the talk was the uniqueness in the education dystems of India and the United States.

Jun Yong Kang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his research team (Hai Huang and Jeffery Ash) published a research article, "Tf2O-Promoted Activating Strategy of Phosphate Analogues: Synthesis of Mixed Phosphates and Phosphinate," in Organic Letters. This research reports an efficient, mild synthetic method of phosphates and mixed phosphonates.…

Physics and Astronomy graduate student John Boisvert, along with his advisor Jason Steffen and collaborator Ben Nelson were looking for planets hidden within archival data. There is an important degeneracy where a one-planet model produces the same signal as a two-planet model with a specific orbital configuration.  This group developed…

Tanviben Y. Patel, Mark Buttner, and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with David Rivas, '18 Master of Public Health, and physician Joram Seggev, wrote an article, "Variation in Airborne Pollen Concentrations Among Five Monitoring Locations in a Desert Urban Environment," which was…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) addressed the graduate students and faculty of the mathematics department of the Central University of Punjab, Bathind, India, earlier this month. The topic was the "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Academic Excellence." The department was started in 2015, while the university established in 2009.

Mira Han (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Life Sciences) won the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) Young Investigator/Student Travel Award for her poster, "Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Negative Correlation between Mitochondrial Genes and Transcripts of L1HS, and Positive Correlation between…

Katherine Thornock Luebke (Chemistry and Biochemistry) won an award for best poster presentation at the annual Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D) University Program Review (UPR) meeting in June. Luebke's poster…

Arya Udry (Geoscience) and James Day of the UCSD–Scripps Institute of Oceanography are the authors of a paper, “1.34 Billion-Year-Old Magmatism on Mars Evaluated from the Co-genetic Nakhlite and Chassignite Meteorites,” which was recently published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. The paper focuses on the formation and emplacement of the…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) spoke on "The Shadows of Science and Vigyan" in the mathematics department of his alma mater, Panjab University, in Chandigarh, India. This invited talk was organized by the Chandigarh Vigyan Parishad (Science Council), and also sponsored by the Chandigarh chapter of the Indian National Academy of Sciences. Bhatnagar…

Arya Udry (Geoscience) and coauthors’ paper, “Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition” recently was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. This paper focuses on the formation of the rare Martian rocks measured by the rover Curiosity at Gale Crater on Mars…