Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and Alisa Watjara, (Sciences) are the recipients of the 2024-2025 UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of advising and supporting students. Their award applications have been forwarded on to the NSHE level Academic…
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving as Principal Investigator for all three. These grants will support his cutting-edge research in astrophysics and planetary science.
The NSF Astronomy and…
Alexander Barzilov, Woosoon Yim (both Mechanical Engineering), Artem Gelis (Radiochemistry), and Ke-Xun Sun (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were awarded a five-year, $5,000,000 renewal grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration through the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) to continue research projects of…
Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) and his collaborators recently established a time-dependent Maxwell’s equation model for simulating wave propagation in hyperbolic metamaterials. They proposed effective numerical algorithms to demonstrate the applications for designing hyperbolic superlenses. The results are published in the Computational…
A peer reviewed manuscript by authors professor Frederic Poineau (Radiochemistry) and Ph.D. candidate Harry Jang has been accepted for publication by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The article titled, "Revealing Uranium Tetrafluoride Microrods," represents the first time uranium tetrafluoride microrods were prepared by chemical…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Douglas Jones from the University of Iowa published an article entitled "Election Integrity in the United States: How Will 2024 compare to 2020" in the current issue of IEEE Computer. This is the latest in their series of articles on election integrity since 2014 that coincide with U.S. presidential…
Edwin Oh (Sciences, Medicine) and colleagues from UNLV, the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health recently published a first-of-its-kind study using wastewater monitoring to track drug use patterns throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
“Drug Usage Patterns in Wastewater Correlate with…
Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) participated in a study led by the group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Their research focused on the regulatory mechanisms of microRNA biogenesis in developing skeletal muscles. They identified that muscleblind-like splicing regulator (MBNL) proteins influence the processing and expression of microRNAs…
Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) presented some of her recent results on “Dynamics of solutions to a multiple-patch epidemic model with a saturation incidence mechanism” at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Sectional Meeting at the University of Texas, San Antonio, in the special session on Recent trends in differential…
Kingsley C. Ukandu (Mathematical Sciences) presented part of his work with Rachidi B. Salako (Mathematical Sciences) in a 30 minute talk titled "Structure of the Endemic Equilibria Set of an Epidemic Network Model as the Dispersal Rate of the Susceptible Population Varies" at the American Mathematical Society sectional meeting on "Recent…
Art Gelis (Radiochemistry) and collaborators from University of Illinois, Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory recently published an article titled, "X-ray Induced Cycling of Rare-Earth Elements between Bulk and Interfacial Liquid," in the journal ACS Applied Material & Interfaces. The research performed at UNLV was supported by the Nuclear…
Keith Lawler and Craig Schwartz (both Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory) have been awarded a four-year, $999,305 grant from the Department of Energy Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships program for their project "Probing Perovskite Chirality with the Orbital Angular Momentum of X-rays." This project seeks to exploit recent…