News: Division of Research

researcher in lab
Research |

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research efforts have consistently grown over its 60-year life span, setting us on track to someday becoming one of the premier research universities in the nation.

Mary Croughan, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's vice president for research and economic development
People |

How can 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ help our researchers soar? Mary Croughan isn’t afraid to ask the question, listen for the answer, and take action.

Robert Schill portrait
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engineer Robert Schill takes the guesswork out of deactivating explosive devices.

Robert Rippee portait
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ International Gaming Institute’s Robert Rippee, Jennifer Roberts, and Brett Abarbanel take the lead in researching esports, a new trend that turns video-game playing into a spectator sport.

Palm trees and U.N.L.V. banner
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The Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup awarded more than $55K in seed money to three 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ teams for their health care, hospitality, and esports business ideas.

senior Amber Turner and alumna Lisa Danielson
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ geoscientists and students like undergraduate Amber Turner (left, with alumna Lisa Danielson) are studying our planet and others to understand the impacts humans are having on Earth and the possibilities of life beyond it.

Alyssa Crittenden portrait
Research |

What do a heist thriller, the evolving human diet, water quality, consumer behavior, literature, and Mars have in common? All were the foundation of research awards 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ faculty gar-nered this year.

Student Michelle Mata works at a Consumer Electronics Show booth
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For the first time in its history, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which regularly attracts more than 175,000 techies from around the world.

Vlad Zhitny, Biology major, looks into a microscope in a laboratory.
Research |

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

Dr. Mary Croughan
Research |

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ President, Dr. Len Jessup and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Dr. Mary Croughan welcomes 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Innovation readers to the Fall 2017 issue.

Cover of The Aztecs at Indepencence
Research |

New book on 19th century Mexican community proves a written tradition, previously assumed to have ended around the battle for independence, continued beyond.

Students in theater
Campus News |

Step into the world of YES, where high school students meet team 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ through project-based mentoring and a case-study analysis of the top industry right their backyards.