http://www.unr.edu/The Student World Water Forum will be held in room 320 of the Student Union on Nov. 19-20, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5253&z=8Nevada residents, emergency planners and others will now be able to easily locate homes, schools or businesses in relation to mapped earthquake fault lines.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5244&z=8Results of an investigation indicate that Washoe County experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 – April 2008.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5245&z=8Kenton Sanders recently received a $10.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health through the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5240&z=8On Thursday the National Geographic Channel is featuring the Mogul earthquake swarm that shook Reno from February 28 to May 2008.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5241&z=8As part of an $890,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Scott Tyler is developing a national community-user facility for environmental sensing. http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5228&z=8The Center for Molecular Medicine is the first new research facility going up at School of Medicine in 30 years.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5217&z=8A recently identified retrovirus called XMRV has been linked to a debilitating neuro-immune disease.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5207&z=8In its fall 2009 publication, the Office of Research announced funding of $73 million for research in fiscal year 2008-09.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5189&z=8The Walker Basin Project plus current research on similar ecosystems around the world will be presented at the International Symposium.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5182&z=8George Fernandez set out to give people a simpler way of calculating their healthy weight.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5168&z=8September has been a good news month for faculty members in the College of Engineering.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5166&z=8Questions involving adaptation and genetic mutation have new answers thanks to Chris Feldman and peers from Utah State University and the University of Virginia.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5145&z=8The Nevada Seismological Laboratory has a new director in Graham Kent.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5122&z=8Biochemist John Cushman is investigating how plants thrive in warmer, drier climates.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5115&z=8CABNR's Zeb Hogan's megafish project will be featured on National Geographic Channel.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5096&z=8The key, according to one of the researchers is to eat fish that are high in beneficial Omega-3 fatty acid and low in mercury contamination.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5093&z=8University of Nevada, Reno mathematics researcher and faculty member Pavel Solin can help make a nuclear reactor run more efficiently.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5074&z=8The Seismological Lab is beginning seismic surveying through downtown as part of a $1 million U.S. Geological Survey study.http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=5071&z=8It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house. http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/?a=4970&z=8