News: Division of Research

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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.

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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.

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

Robert Boehm
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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.

Hal Rothman
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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.

Stan Smith
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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.
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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

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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’s nationally recognized department of educational psychology, housed within the College of Education, has made remarkable strides recently