News: College of Sciences
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Two Millennium Scholars make their marks in the College of Sciences.
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To discover what's happening with the bighorn sheep population, David Choate must track cougars in the National Desert Wildlife Refuge.
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Microbiologist Brian Hedlund knows from experience just how dangerous a hot spring can be.
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Local retiree audits class and is so impressed by stellar professor that he donates money for lecture series.
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Geoscience grad student's work help people in remote areas of Ghana manage water resources.
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UNLV-led research team ties spike in ancient oceanic oxygen levels to earliest animal biodiversity; findings reported in Sept. 27 issue of journal Nature.
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Inspired by loved ones’ battles with cancer and intrigued by the mysteries locked within the cells of humans, Hui Zhang hopes to one day make medical history.
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Nora Caberoy on the complicated structures of the eye, treating blindness, and catching tadpoles.
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Radiochemistry student Edward Mausolf honored by DOE for investigating a radioactive byproduct of nuclear energy.
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Elementary teachers head to summer school to bone up on science.
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Project VISIONS partners UNLV, CCSD to boost student success in science by improving teacher content knowledge and confidence