Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was featured in the article, “Neuromuscular Disease Research: Going Strong," published in the special 75th anniversary issue of Quest, which is dedicated to the unstoppable community the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) serves every day.
MDA is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United…
Chandra Bhattacharya (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a $1.88M Early Stage Investigator (ESI) R35 MIRA grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). This prestigious five-year award will support the Bhattacharya lab's research on developing innovative lipid nanoparticle platforms for targeted mRNA delivery -…
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…
On Aug. 12, Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave an hour-long talk (on Google Meet) on the Importance of American Ph.D. in Mathematics to over 100 students in the Division of Science of Central University of Assam, Tezpur (India), established in 1994.
A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed a lipid nanoparticle platform that can deliver mRNA intravenously to the spleen with 99% selectivity. This work was published in Small, titled "Endogenous Corticosteroid Derived Lipid Nanoparticles (Cortico LNPs) Enable Selective mRNA Delivery to…
Radiochemistry Ph.D. candidate Becca Manns (Chemistry) is the recipient of a prestigious Rickover Fellowship from the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF). The appointment, which begins Sept. 1, is offered to students in pursuit of graduate study and research supportive of the mission and goals of…
First-year radiochemistry Ph.D. student Colette Towles (Chemistry) was awarded a summer internship at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and was highlighted in a recent video published by SRNL. The working group at SRNL where Towles interned endeavors to determine the absorption properties of low activity radioactive waste using…
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented an audio presentation of a paper, "Rebuilding of Dismantled Math Communities," at the annual MathFest of the Mathematical Association of America, held at Sacramento, California, on Aug. 6-9, 2025.
The following students from the colleges of Sciences and Engineering were awarded an internship, scholarship, or fellowship through the support of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium.
The consortium helps provide and expand STEM research and training opportunities for students through the NASA internship, fellowship and scholarship (NIFS…
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."