News: Division of Research

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When toxic masculinity is part of a culture, male survivors of childhood abuse may turn to crime as a way to reclaim their masculinity.

Sharang Chaudhry speaking in front of brain simulations.
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Embracing contradiction made statistics doctoral student Sharang Chaudhry a better research presenter.

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With support from McNair Scholars program, undergraduate students spent their summer leading research with the mentorship of faculty.

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Do children raised by male caregivers have different perceptions of gender as a result of who raised them? This psychology major spent her summer exploring the question.

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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.

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That pain in your neck may be from your tablet device, how librarians help keep students in school, a research course that has undergrads digging up viruses, and more.

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UNLV anthropology researchers Daniel Benyshek, Laura Gryder, and Sharon Young found that placentophagy may not deliver the benefits practitioners anticipate.

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An annual accounting of research and economic development activity over the last fiscal year.

Kwang Kim and his mentees.
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UNLV engineer Kwang Kim was one of 155 academic inventors to be named a 2017 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow.

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In the last two years, two UNLV faculty members and four students have visited various parts of the world to study, teach, and foster international goodwill as part of the prestigious Fulbright Program.