Accomplishments: School of Life Sciences
Ph.D. student Keegan Hammond (Life Sciences), a student researcher in the Dryland Ecohydrology lab, was selected for the Natural Resources Workforce Development fellowship as part of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Hammond will join a cohort of seven graduate students to gain experience in developing actionable, use-inspired…
51ԹϺ undergraduates from Jingchun Chen’s Lab Lead Alzheimer’s Research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Two undergraduate researchers from Jingchun Chen’s lab at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM), Tyrell Pratt (School of Integrated Health Sciences) and Alice Lee (School of Life Sciences), have achieved…
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) has been recognized as a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, a platform that identifies leading researchers worldwide based on the impact and volume of their scholarly contributions. Tseng was ranked in the top 0.5% of nearly 96,000 researchers globally in Regeneration Biology. Her award-winning research explores…
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new article in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a global synthesis of precipitation memory effects in plant growth titled, "Lagged precipitation effects on plant production across terrestrial biomes."
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored two synthesis journal articles in Global Change Biology, one titled, "Identifying the Climate Conditions Associated With Extreme Growth States in Trees Across the Western United States," and the second titled, "Precipitation Pulse Dynamics Are Not Ubiquitous: A Global Meta-Analysis of Plant and Ecosystem…
Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences), in collaboration with Becky Ostertag at the University of Hawaii, published: "Niche conservatism and sympatric parallel evolution may help to maintain eight nascent tree taxa along a sharp elevation gradient," in Functional Ecology.
They asked how eight races, varieties, and species of ʻŌhiʻa trees (Hawaiian…
Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Phylogenomics of the tetraploid Hawaiian lobeliads: implications for their origin, dispersal history, and adaptive radiation." The Hawaiian lobeliad radiation, comprising 143 species, is the largest endemic plant radiation on any island…
Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Jonathan C. Hilpert, (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Christy Strong (Life Sciences) published a brief research report titled, "Using the fused graphical lasso to explore the motivational self-system after a multimedia self-regulated learning…
Hui Zhan (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) has published a research article titled “Biomarker Identification for Alzheimer’s Disease Through Integration of Comprehensive Mendelian Randomization and Proteomics Data” in the Journal of Translational Medicine on March 6.
The study is co-authored by Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health…
Dr. Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and her team used deep learning AI techniques to develop genetic models based on polygenic risk scores (PRS). A PRS functions like a genetic risk calculator, combining the effects of thousands of small genetic variations to estimate the likelihood of developing specific diseases.…
Matthew Medeiros, Laura Seo, Aziel Macias, and Donald Price (all Life Sciences), along with Joanne Yew from the University of Hawaii, have published a paper in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Communications: New Developments in Microbial Ecology journal in November 2024.
Madeiros is a post-doctoral researcher in Price's and Yew's…
Donald Price (Life Sciences) was part of a team including scientists from Stanford University, Yale University, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, University of North Carolina, University of California Davis, Bangor University, Case Western Reserve University, Syracuse University, Syracuse, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Czech Academy of Sciences,…