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Lake Tahoe is uncharacteristically unsettled on this late August afternoon, with a sharp breeze cutting across the beach at Camp Galilee on the lake’s east shore. Tahoe’s normally placid blue waters churn with small whitecaps, and wisps of clouds seem to be gathering strength in numbers. And yet, a group of 36 freshmen-to-be at the University of Nevada, Reno couldn’t care less. Read the full story Jessica “Jes” Ford, the University of Nevada, Reno’s undergraduate recipient for the Regents’ Scholar Award for 2008, has found the best of both worlds: she’s a champion snowboarder and notable collegiate scholar — and in both areas, she has limitless potential. Read the full story With each passing class, Nichole Maloney was growing more and more upset. The classes she had been taking this semester, Parastilogy and Malaria, taught by Biology Professor Robert Mead, were far from what she had expected. Read the full story As counterintuitive as it sounds, Brian Frost believes failure and research go hand in hand. Read the full story Research projects have a number of interesting variables attached to them, whether it’s the design of the work, the support of federal, state or local agencies, or even the personalities of the researchers involved. Read the full story For math students, a course with Don Pfaff begins and ends with one thing. The Hawaiian shirt. “I always tell my students, ‘There’s a dress code around here … you need to dress at least as well as I do,’” says Pfaff, whose career at Nevada dates back to 1961. Read the full story During the 2007 Honor the Best ceremony on May 16th in the JTSU auditorium, the College of Science had many of its own students and faculty honored and recognized for their achievements at both the University and Nevada State Higher Education system levels. View awards given to COS students and faculty Read the full story |
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