Erica Marti, environmental engineering student, will travel to Germany this month to meet the world’s greatest minds in medicine, physics and chemistry.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center for Business and Economic Research biannual conference June 25 will address factors impacting economic growth.
One of this year's Calvert Award winners for undergraduate researchers on how to avoid getting overwhelmed by massive amounts of research materials.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, advisory firm Applied Analysis create public-private partnership to give university access to powerful real-time data analysis tool.
Call it watering the green spots. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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.
Faculty authors explore our place in the universe, Gandhi and his mentors, a small city’s civil rights struggle, and more.
During the past decade, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing have expanded their research programs and boosted collaboration among faculty investigators in support of the university’s vision of becoming a major research institution. The following profiles demonstrate the diversity and depth of the two schools’ research projects.
What will a medical school bring to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research and discovery?
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ English professor Richard Wiley offers insight into the inspiration and writing process for his newest novel.
Research to explore solar energy, water, and environmental issues related to large-scale solar installations on arid desert lands.