In The News: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
After delaying the vote last month, Henderson’s City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a controversial development on top of a 100-year-old mine near Lake Las Vegas. A handful of items on the upcoming council agenda are connected with a proposed 3,000-home development to be built over the site of the Three Kids Mine, an open-pit mine that was used to supply manganese for weapons in World War I.
Welcome to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. Today is the first of our four live shows from campus and Greenspun Hall during this, the university’s Homecoming Week.
Welcome to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. Today is the first of our four live shows from campus and Greenspun Hall during this, the university’s Homecoming Week.
Welcome to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. Today is the first of our four live shows from campus and Greenspun Hall during this, the university’s Homecoming Week.
Experts who studied an abandoned 100-year-old mine are expressing concerns about a plan to fill in the 1,100-acre site and build a new master-planned community on top of it.
Students and faculty at 15 Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) will grow their research and technology capabilities, collaborate with NASA on research projects, and contribute to the agency’s missions through a new funding opportunity made possible by NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP). The MUREP Partnership Annual Notification is providing nearly $900,000 to help selected MSIs develop new technologies for use in space exploration as well as in the commercial marketplace.
Citlally Lopez is under the microscope, as all eyes are on the Las Vegas native for her research into finding a cure for the second leading cause of death in the world.
A 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor's invention is being used by a Las Vegas company to help reduce the number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from laptops to electric vehicles.
A 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor’s invention is being used by a Las Vegas-based startup to help reduce the number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from laptops to electric vehicles.
About 500,000 people in the United States suffer from gastrointestinal infections from Clostridioides difficile (C. diff). Over 20,000 die from the infections.
Gastrointestinal infections from Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) affect about 500,000 people in the U.S. a year, 20,000 of which die. Now, a new study performed in mice may have found a solution for the condition.
Even though you can't see them, your home is full of microscopic germs that can make your family or visitors sick. "Even the cleanest home has bacteria and viruses," says Ernesto Abel-Santos, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "In fact, most have benefits for us."