News: Office of Undergraduate Research
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This Research & Creative Honors Program participant makes educating children about the diversity within the Latino community fun.
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This Research & Creative Honors Program participant sought to design a stadium that would better serve the community.
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This Research & Creative Honors Program participant is as curious as he was in the third grade — only now he's an undergraduate researcher.
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This Research & Creative Honors Program participant found her research mission early in life and has been pursuing it ever since.
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Through interviews and writing, this Research & Creative Honors Program participant discovered how storytelling empowers marginalized groups.
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Hands-on experience to complement classroom learning helped this Research & Creative Honors Program participant understand — and love — biology even more.
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UNLV’s Research & Creative Honors Program provides undergraduates with unique opportunities that prepare them for graduate studies.
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Four students on the chances they’ve taken, the confidence they’ve gained, and the dreams they continue to chase.
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Inaugural hackathon offered UNLV students unique opportunity to generate innovative commercial products; winner announced during CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
Some students spent their summer lounging peacefully at the pool. Zantana Ephrem spent hers studying just war theory.
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This student’s summer research on microaggressions against queer black males was no small task.
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Solar power is the future of energy, and this undergraduate engineering student is working on the future of solar cells.