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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 Steve Wesnousky figured something was up Tuesday afternoon in his Air Photo Interpretation class. Read the full story For Liming Zhang, every day when he is at the University, whether it is teaching or conducting research in his lab in the Department of Chemistry, is a good day. Read the full story Andrei Derevianko, an associate professor in the College of Science’s Department of Physics, is part of a group of physicists who were recently featured on Discovery Channel for their work in the creation of the world’s most accurate atomic clock. 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 Even now, several days after traveling to Wells, Nev., to set up a telemetry network to gain a better understanding of the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that rocked the rural Nevada community last month, Nathan Edwards shakes his head with a sense of amazement. Read the full story As the country continues to explore ways to efficiently and safely capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-and gas-fired power plants, a recently completed study by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology has given the state of Nevada an important snapshot of the viability associated with this emerging technology. Read the full story Researchers with the University’s Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) recently discovered the existence of direct evidence of an active geothermal system in the Teels Marsh area of Mineral County in rural Nevada. 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 Dick Tracy tells the stories of his students, because their stories are a part of his story, of his history. His recollections of his students are rich and precise, and seem to take on a life of their own. His words flow easily, like turning the pages of a family photo album. Read the full story In the four years of the Westfall Scholar program - named in honor of founding College of Science Dean David Westfall to honor the achievements of the college's top scholars - Carr has been chosen each time as the faculty mentor from the Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering. Read the full story Alexander Lang is 22 years old and only beginning his life's journey. Don Pfaff's association with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics nearly pre-dates the time that John F. Kennedy was elected president. He began his career as an associate professor at the University in 1961. Yet together, the rookie and the veteran, the college-graduate-to-be and the math professor of so many decades, showed why the days leading up to the Winter Commencement Ceremony each year on Nevada's campus are a special time. Read the full story Ants are often considered nuisances, pests that are to be quickly eradicated and forgotten. Yet, according to a team of scientists that includes Monte Sanford, a Ph.D. student, and Dennis Murphy, a professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, ants could hold important keys to improving water clarity at Lake Tahoe and in maintaining ecological health in the Lake Tahoe basin. Read the full story This summer when news of the tragedy at Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah began to break, Taylor was called upon to play a different sort of role. As the nation tried to make sense of the scene at Crandall Canyon -- where on Aug. 6 six miners were trapped about 3.4 miles from the mine's entrance, some 1,500 feet underground -- Taylor became a mining engineering spokesperson of sorts. Read the full story NASA's ambitious exploration effort to return humans to the surface of the Moon and provide a continuous robotic presence on Mars is receiving a critical boost from Nevada scientists. Read the full story Scott Clark has seen both the East Coast and the West Coast during his career as a developmental biologist. “I’ve been going back and forth,” he said recently in an interview in his office on the third floor of the Fleischman Life Sciences Building. Clark did his undergraduate studies at UC-Berkeley, his graduate work at MIT, followed by post-doctoral work at UC-San Francisco. Then, he moved to the Skirball Institute at the New York University School of Medicine to establish his own laboratory. Read the full story Suppose someone hands you a loop of string with a big tangle in it. There is probably no mathematical way known for you to determine whether it can be untangled without cutting it. Three members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation totaling more than $286,000, to look into this complicated problem. Read the full story University of Nevada, Reno researchers Jeanne and David Zeh of the Department of Biology have received a five-year, $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the effects of natural mitochondrial variation on sperm traits and sperm competitive ability. Read the full story Students have the opportunity to travel to the Amazon jungle in Peru and study with one of the world's foremost experts in treating disease. Dr. Lane Rolling is holding a free seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 5, to talk about what he calls a different approach to helping the sick around the world. The approach involves learning, and understanding, tropical pathology and medicine. Read the full story The Research Experiences for Undergraduates program (REU), sponsored by the National Science Foundation for three years, will wrap its second summer session August 17. The undergraduate students employed in the program will return home to their respective universities with valuable experiences many of their peers rarely get the chance to encounter. Read the full story Ten years after the Lake Tahoe Presidential Summit, collaboration among Tahoe researchers has never been stronger. Read the full story Andrei Derevianko, University physics professor was awarded the Fulbright grant to fly across the Pacific to work with a group of physicists at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Derevianko will assist them in analyzing recent data on the supposed variation of fundamental constants of nature over time and space. Read the full story Forty Nevada high school students were recently awarded cash prizes from the University's mathematics department for successful completion of the Nevada Prize Examination in High School Mathematics. The exam was given to 975 students from 19 Nevada high schools. This year marked the exam's 50th anniversary. Read the full story With its rare collection of John Mackay's silver and a wide array of minerals from all over the world, the Keck Museum in the Mackay School of Mines building is an educational and historical attraction in northern Nevada. The museum is also a popular destination for field trips, as it was in late May for the fourth grade class of Las Vegas Cartwright Elementary School. Read the full story Indeed, it has been a remarkable past three years for Mensing. He has achieved a teaching "triple crown" of the highest order. In 2005, he was named winner of the LeMay Award for Excellence in Teaching, signifying the top instructor in the College of Science. In 2006, he earned the Tibbitts Award. And, this year, he is recipient of the Regents Teaching Award -- an annual award presented by the Nevada System of Higher Education to the professor throughout the entire system with the most distinguished teaching record. 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 On Wednesday, in the Reno City Council Chambers, the City of Reno presented representatives from Mackay with the ";Significant Historic Resource Award"; for renovation of the Mackay School of Mines Building. A lunch sponsored by the Historic Reno Preservation Society was held after the awards ceremony. Read the full story Jeff Thompson, a longtime physics professor and current associate dean of the College of Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, has been named interim dean of the college, Provost John Frederick announced April 26. Read the full story Despite the limited time schedule, Linde won the 2007 NSF fellowship award because of her potential to become a knowledge expert in her area of study, geology. Read the full story They entered the competition as decided underdogs. But thanks to excellent preparation, a skilled team that worked together with seamless precision and the history of one of the most storied mining programs in the country powering their every effort, they left with a world championship. Read the full story Not only did the Mackay School enter a team in the Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration (SME)/National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) Student Design Competition for the first time, students from Nevada won the entire competition. The Mackay School is an academic unit within the University's College of Science. Read the full story Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are at the forefront on a number of seismological fields, including helping the world better determine whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami. Read the full story Sixteen University of Nevada students will be presented the 2007 ";Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges"; award on March 13. The prestigious award is given to students based on their academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and potential for continued success after graduation. Read the full story Vladimir Pravosudov, an assistant biology professor, has a daunting research record. He has received eight federal grants, awards and research fellowships for his research. He has published 50 times in American and Russian scientific journals. And now, Pravosudov has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health and one from the National Science Foundation to fund his latest projects. Read the full story The decade-long research that chemistry professor Thomas Bell has invested in received an important boost recently when one of Bell's articles made the list of the 100 most influential publications in the HIV/AIDS research field for 2006. The research looks into the development of an extremely effective HIV/AIDS-fighting compound Read the full story David Westfall, who in a career spanning more than 25 years at the University of Nevada, Reno won nearly every major teaching and research award and who made University history when he was named the first dean of the College of Science, announced today that he will be stepping down as dean this summer. Westfall was appointed dean of the University's newly created College of Science in 2004. Read the full story Brian Frost admits that his first reaction was a mixture of surprise and disbelief when he learned recently he was the latest member of the College of Science's Department of Chemistry to receive the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER award. Read the full story With all due respect to the 112 years that the Northwest Mining Association has been in existence, the organization's recent annual meeting in Sparks might well have been renamed "Mackay Week" in recognition of the excellent representation on the program of Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering faculty and students. Read the full story |
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