News: Division of Research
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The 2002 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner works on harnessing the region’s natural resources to create sustainable energy technology.
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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.
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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.
![UNLV history professor Andrew Kirk, project director Mary Palevsky, and sociology professor Robert Futrell.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-03%20at%209.57.46%20AM.png?itok=pjYufeD8)
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
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UNLV has developed a new campus that has emerged as a leading facility for health, biomedical, and biotechnological research
![Alan Simmons](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Alan%20Simmons.png?itok=Y78pvG50)
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
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Several early faculty were committed to research at a relatively unlikely time in UNLV’s history. What can we learn from them?
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UNLV’s National Supercomputing Center provides research support.
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UNLV President Dr. Carol C. Harter and Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Dr. Paul W. Ferguson welcome readers to the inaugural issue of UNLV Fusion.