Cultivating Research

Faculty Opportunity Awards help innovative ideas blossom into fully formed scientific and scholarly investigations. UNLV’s Faculty Opportunity Awards program provides seed funding for faculty researchers with promising ideas and a desire to pursue additional funding from government agencies, foundations, or private industry. The program has supported a wide variety of campus research projects involving multidisciplinary teams, single investigators, and other faculty working to develop intellectual property. Elizabeth Hausrath Rebecca Gill Janet Dufek Ying Tia

Array of Accomplishment

Shahram Latifi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering whose work explores a dizzying array of his discipline’s most complex areas, is the 2014 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award winner

Brutality in Our Bones

Debra Martin, winner of the 2015 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award, uses the remains of the dead to uncover the roots of human violence

A Quest for Our Earliest Ancestors

Brian Villmoare’s identification of a 2.8 million-year-old jawbone suggests our earliest human ancestors — that “branch of the human family tree that leads to us” — were thriving almost half-a-million years earlier than scientists had previously supposed

The relation of the route of administration of thyroxine, thyroprotein, and intermediate products upon their utilization by ruminants

Publication authorized February 2, 1946.Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)

A study of the involution of the mammary gland of the goat

Publication authorized February 28, 1936."Submitted by the junior author to the Department of Dairy Husbandry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, 1936"--P. [5].Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (page 23)

Formation in vitro of highly active thyroproteins, their biologic assay, and practical use

Publication authorized November 16, 1942.Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-88)

From the ground up

Can Smith's defense buy time for an unproven offense?Story by Charles E. Reineke ; photo by Rob Hil

With lyricism and luminosity

National Geographic's David Alan Harvey uses the "Missouri Method" to capture the hidden pageantry of everyday life