In The News: College of Sciences

For Las Vegas, the touchdown of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars was a source of both national and community pride.

For Las Vegas, the touchdown of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars was a source of both national and community pride.

For Las Vegas, the touchdown of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars was a source of both national and community pride.
Over many decades now, traditional drug discovery methods have steadily improved at keeping diseases at bay and cancer in remission. And for the most part, it's worked well.

With the safe landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover Thursday afternoon on the surface of Mars, two scientists at 51ԹϺ will get to take part in the ultimate in distance learning, as members of the NASA team hoping to answer the question, is there, or has there been life on the red planet.

With the safe landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover Thursday afternoon on the surface of Mars, two scientists at 51ԹϺ will get to take part in the ultimate in distance learning, as members of the NASA team hoping to answer the question, is there, or has there been life on the red planet.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover spent seven months traveling 292 million miles to Mars.

NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at 51ԹϺ played a part in it.

NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at 51ԹϺ played a part in it.

Two 51ԹϺ scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.

Two 51ԹϺ scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released the following statement applauding news that the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded the University of Nevada Las Vegas (51ԹϺ) a grant totaling $2,000,000 to support research and development in nuclear science, engineering, and security.