Topic: environment

Single visitor looking at the Tested Ground museum exhibit
Arts and Culture | June 12, 2017

How to use the Barrick Museum’s new exhibit to talk to your children about the environment.

Solar panels in the Eldorado Valley
Research | May 25, 2017

Researchers investigate the environmental footprint of solar facilities to guide future design.

Jonathan Baker and colleagues examine stalagmite in a cave
Campus News | May 22, 2017

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Ph.D. candidate’s research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.

Team Wingin' It stands in front of U.N.L.V. sign
Business and Community | February 15, 2017

Team Wingin’ It, a group led by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students, hatched a plan to help Las Vegas become more energy efficient and plucked the $10K grand prize during the Consumer Electronics Show.

Students planting with shovel
Business and Community | January 26, 2017

Students pitch in on a project to restore native vegetation around the drought-stricken Lake Mead. View the photo essay by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ photographer Josh Hawkins.

Shahram Latifi
Research | December 8, 2016

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researcher pioneers new applications for quick, efficient and secure data management.

Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System facility
Research | November 8, 2016

Director of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Center for Energy Research Robert Boehm helps make serious improvements that cut down on desert solar power plant's use of water.

A hiker descends the Angels Landing route in Zion National Park
Research | September 13, 2016

As the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor Scott Abella explores the conservation challenges officials face.

Scott Abella
Business and Community | August 4, 2016

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor Scott Abella on why national parks matter more than ever to everyone from foodies to Civil War historians to the average Joe sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic.