Long commutes. Pedestrian safety. Traffic accidents. Seatbelt use. Pollution. UNLV’s Transportation Research Center is ready to take on the challenges of getting people safely from here to there in Southern Nevada.

Sure, they’re interesting research stories. But what does research really mean to UNLV, to the community, and to you?

UNLV President David B. Ashley and Interim Vice President for Research and Graduate Dean Mark Rudin welcome readers to the Winter 2006 issue of Innovation.

UNLV researchers explore how inhabitants of arid lands are able not only to survive but thrive in one of the most hostile, extraordinary landscapes on Earth.

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

The 2002 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner works on harnessing the region’s natural resources to create sustainable energy technology.

With an eye to the future, the 2004 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner chronicles the unique past and dynamic present of Southern Nevada.

The 2003 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner studies the unique processes of desert ecosystems to examine how climate change may affect other regions of the world.

The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project is documenting, preserving, and disseminating the stories of those involved in one of the most technologically sophisticated yet controversial endeavors in Nevada’s history

UNLV has developed a new campus that has emerged as a leading facility for health, biomedical, and biotechnological research

Anthropology professor Alan Simmons explores how the social and economic changes that occurred 10,000 years ago in the Middle East forever altered the human experience

Several early faculty were committed to research at a relatively unlikely time in UNLV’s history. What can we learn from them?