News: College of Sciences

Stepping into the world of research helped one student choose a career, make new friends, and get a head start on the future.

Nevada undergraduate research journal offers 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students the opportunity to promote their research and boost their resumes.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ study shows frog embryos can fully regrow their eyes after injury, debunking a belief that they can’t.

The student-led Scientista Foundation chapter is working to close the gender gap in professional STEM fields.

Passing the baton in the search for distant planets.

This new member of the College of Sciences team sings — both the praises of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and just for fun.

Undergraduate Honors College student Sophia Quinton has overcome personal adversity to win prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ scientist searches for new information and for ways to explain a complex subject to the everyday folk.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research administrators on creating an environment to connect faculty from different disciplines.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ biologist finds nearly 400 genes potentially associated with obesity and other health problems in fruit flies.

How a vacation in South Africa, a one-of-its-kind 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ lab, and pieces of volcanic glass smaller than a grain of salt changed a long-held view of human history.

Scientific analysis of diamond impurities - known as inclusions - reveal naturally forming ice crystals and point to water-rich regions deep below the Earth's crust.