News: Division of Research
![Dr. Thomas Piechota portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D68648_01.jpg?itok=iKLdwNlE)
UNLV President, Dr. Len Jessup and Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Dr. Thomas Piechota welcomes UNLV Innovation readers to the Winter 2015 issue.
![Penny Amy speaks to assistants](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/BeeLine-D70349_15.jpg?itok=DqJaiXkl)
Microbiology professor Penny Amy leads a formidable team in honeycomb warfare.
![UNLV President Len Jessup, left, and Tesla Motors Vice President for Business Development Diarmuid O’Connell shake hands](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_tesla.jpg?itok=dBj2Arg1)
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval joins leadership from Tesla, UNLV at university event Oct.7 to mark research collaboration.
![Kwang Kim in research lab](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/kim_D69897_09.jpg?itok=FHz5UAqV)
UNLV engineering professors team with researchers from Korea, Japan as part of grant-funded National Science Foundation international research program.
![Marty Schiller](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D69168_03.jpg?itok=8v1gGvQK)
UNLV personalized medicine researchers seeking patent on potential HIV cure. Their technique uses a plant protein widely used in agriculture industry.
![Metal Rebel behind the wheel of Local Motors' 3D-printed LOCO vehicle](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/LocalMotors_UNLV.jpg?itok=mrOWeDnO)
Automotive education partnership will help drive the next generation of vehicle technology.
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Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and UNLV earn $11 million grant from National Institutes of Health to tackle Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Amputation is a serious threat to people with diabetes. A team of UNLV faculty researchers, entrepreneurial students, and economic development experts is working to bring a better way to prevent the problem to market soon.
![Aerial view of Greenspun Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/hero_video/image/D69834_01.jpg?itok=FsUKAN9X)
UNLV, advisory firm Applied Analysis create public-private partnership to give university access to powerful real-time data analysis tool.
![Ying Tian](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D69902_20_0.jpg?itok=4_Wn4pbl)
After seven firefighters died in a collapsed parking garage, engineering professor Ying Tian wanted to help design more resilient buildings. His research was shored up with seed money from a UNLV grant.
![Elsabeth Hausrath](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D69945_32_0.jpg?itok=H7CKMAwO)
Data from NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is helping Elisabeth Hausrath understand how soil and water might have once interacted on the surface of our solar system’s most-Earthlike neighbor.
![Rebecca Gill looks through a library book shelf](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/01_D69898_12_Main_0.jpg?itok=MrMypzQ1)
Political science professor Rebecca Gill is examining the ways we evaluate judge performance and how gender or racial bias influence the results.