The Platinum Treatment
UNLV researcher patents a chemotherapy compound that uses a heavy metal derivative to improve cancer treatment.
UNLV researcher patents a chemotherapy compound that uses a heavy metal derivative to improve cancer treatment.
Engineering professor's research one day could save power companies millions and lead to decreased electricity cost for consumers.
The three-year project will increase number of practitioners working with children at risk for behavioral health issues.
The social work professor's fourth and final book on the thinkers who shaped the world leader's pacifism and civil disobedience.
Astronomy professor's book offers a history of cosmology and a primer on what's to come.
Engineering professor Shahram Latifi draws on a breadth of knowledge to craft elegant solutions to problems fraught with complication.
New study finds no causal relationship between Internet use and problem gambling.
Call it watering the green spots. UNLV’s Faculty Opportunity Awards program provides seed funding for faculty researchers with promising ideas and a desire to pursue additional funding from government agencies, foundations, or private industry. The program has supported a wide variety of campus research projects involving multidisciplinary teams, single investigators, and other faculty working to develop intellectual property.
For more than 30 years, U.S. universities have had the right to commercialize discoveries made through faculty research funded by the federal government. For a time, few universities made much of the opportunity. But today, as funding support for higher education is increasingly imperiled, marketing great ideas has never been more popular --- or more crucial. Three UNLV projects show how research benefits the university, the business community, and you.
Supercomputing on campus; cosmic radiation and a mission to Mars; a grant to help at-risk kids; Bluetooth boosts blood-flow sensing; high marks for grad programs; a plentiful mineral from space; hard-to-find soft fossils; climate challenges; the public weighs in on drones; and preserving Nevada’s old newspapers.
An annual accounting of research and economic development activity over the last fiscal year.