June
May
Dr. Pamela Burnley, Department of Geoscience
"How Do We Know that the Earth Has a Core?"
April
Dr. Edwin Oh, Neurogenetics and Precision Medicine Lab, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
"Getting Dirty: Using Wastewater to Understand the Spread of Human Disease"
March
Dr. Bing Zhang, Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Fast Radio Bursts: A Mystery Being Solved"
February
Dr. Monika Neda, Department of Mathematical Sciences
"Mathematical Modeling: How Can We Predict Fluid Flow?"
January
Dr. Boo Shan Tseng, School of Life Sciences
"Understanding Bacterial Communities and Their Effect on Humans"
November
Dr. Ashkan Salamat, Department of Physics and Astronomy
"The Future of Energy: Exploring Superconductivity at Room Temperature"
October
Dr. Simon Jowitt, Department of Geoscience
"Who Needs Mining, and Who Does Mining Need? Insights into How Mining Supports Modern Life and How Economic Geology Research Can Help the Mining Industry"
September
Dr. Aude Picard, School of Life Sciences
"Influence of Microorganisms on Mineral Formation: How Microbe-Mineral Interactions Can Help Us Look for Life on Other Planets"
August
Dr. Jason Steffen, Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Gods of Power: How Nuclear Energy Will Save the Planet"
July
Dr. Ernesto Abel-Santos, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Disease in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond”
June
Dr. Christy Strong, School of Life Sciences
“Viral Evolution: Variation within Virus Populations”
May
Brian Hedlund, School of Life Sciences
“How Microorganisms Affect Our Lives: From Pandemics to Antibiotic-Associated Intestinal Disease”