In The News: Division of Research
A new study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas compared the color, cleanliness, freshness and firmness of fruits and vegetables among 14 dollar-discount stores and 40 traditional grocery stores and found the quality of fruits and vegetables at the dollar stores is just as good as regular grocery store produce.
You get what you pay for when grocery shopping — or so we’re led to believe. So buying your favorite fruits and vegetables at a discount store means you must be getting lower quality goods, right? Wrong. New research reveals that produce sold at dollar stores are actually quite comparable to that sold at traditional grocery chains, only markedly cheaper.
A study by 51ԹϺ researchers argues that non-traditional food markets like dollar discount stores may help bridge disparities in food access for low-income residents.
A new study found that the quality of produce at dollar-discount stores is just as good as grocery found at traditional supermarkets.
The Fenner Valley Water Authority (FVWA) has released a new analysis by water chemistry expert Dr. David K. Kreamer, a professor of Hydrology & Geosciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas critiquing two opposition-funded papers to the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project. FVWA is the public agency charged with operating and pre-project monitoring of the Cadiz Water Project in coordination with San Bernardino County.
At first, there was no road at all, just a series of springs where the water table breached the earth’s crust.
Thomas Garrison pauses in the middle of the jungle.
“That’s the causeway right there,” he says, pointing into a random patch of greenery in the Guatemalan lowlands.
Your genes may hold clues to your optimal diet plan.
That’s what 51ԹϺ researcher Martin Schiller advocates with his new business, Food Genes and Me, a website that uses genetic data to predict how eating less or more of a certain food could help ward off disease.
No one knows when the big one will hit Las Vegas, but that's not stopping researchers at 51ԹϺ from trying to predict if and when it could happen.
After a decade in which Las Vegas rose from the depths of the Great Recession to a full recovery, this is an opportune time to look at our future and our immediate past.
No one knows whether Tom Brady will get his sixth championship ring this weekend or Jared Goff will get his first, but one thing is certain: Both starting quarterbacks, along with the more than a million people traveling to Atlanta for the Super Bowl, will use the bathroom.
A group of 51ԹϺ freshmen took home an award at CES this month as part of Beasley Media Group’s inaugural Media Innovation Hackathon.