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Unlv Innovation: The Research Magazine Of The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Innovation

From health disparities to social injustices, UNLV researchers are tackling some of the toughest challenges our community faces.

Unlv Innovation: The Research Magazine Of The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Innovation

From health disparities to social injustices, UNLV researchers are tackling some of the toughest challenges our community faces.

2016 Unlv Innovation Back Cover

UNLV Innovation

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2016 Annual Report On Unlv Research Activity

UNLV Innovation

An annual accounting of research and economic development productivity over the previous fiscal year.

The UNLV Division of Research and Economic Development reports annual data characterizing institutional research activity in order to evaluate campus research productivity and to facilitate benchmarking to promote future growth.

Data on sponsored programs expenditures, awards, and proposals, as well as technology transfer activity, doctoral conferrals, and more.

In Print

UNLV Innovation

Conserving America’s National Parks: 1916-2016, Celebrating 100 Years of Conservation, Commitment, and Care Scott Abella, CreateSpace

Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style Deirdre Clemente,University of North Carolina Press

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis Georgiann Davis, New York University Press

9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness Tim Gauthier, Lexington Books

Disruptive By Design, Raegen Pietrucha

UNLV Innovation

An actor. An opera singer. A filmmaker. A photographer. What do they have in common? All embrace the contradictory, using it to define both their work and their artistic identities.

Going Off Script: Nate Bynum says today’s actors need to be more than just performers.

Strange Songfellows: By marrying the contradictory, Linda Lister shakes up the opera scene.

Shooting for Progress: Brett Levner, leaving reality TV behind, uses film to fight underage sex trafficking.

Balance Through Contrast: For Catherine Angel, opposing modes create an unmistakable intimacy.

Brain Power, Sue Dibella, Raegen Pietrucha, Shane Bevell, Kevin Dunegan

UNLV Innovation

In 2007, UNLV began building its neuroscience program. Today, those efforts have paid off in the form of research that brings us closer to addressing neurological disorders and diseases.

Checking Into Research, Angela Ramsey

UNLV Innovation

Four hospitality researchers, like the industry they study, have put the customer first. In the process, they’ve uncovered some of the mysteries behind consumer behavior.

Brutality In Our Bones, Charles E. Reineke

UNLV Innovation

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.

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• A new bacterial phylum
• Battling underage trafficking
• A program to boost campus entrepreneurship
• Digging up the dirt on Mars
• Fighting HIV in Nigeria
• New ‘Innovation Corps’
• Music-oriented video games
• Walker Recieve Top NSHE Research Award
• The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient ‘Super-Earth’
• National Archives Grant Funds
• By the Numbers
• Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award
• Researchers’ Health-Tracker Technology
• Gaming Research MOU
• Research Is Ours

Table Of Contents

UNLV Innovation

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No Debating Unlv’S Bright Future

UNLV Innovation

EVEN AS THE UNIVERSITY is poised to capture the world’s attention in a new way—as host of the final U.S. Presidential Debate on October 19—the achievements of UNLV scientists and scholars will continue to keep our university in the spotlight long after the candidates move on. -- Dr. Len Jessup, UNLV President

2016 Unlv Innovation Cover

UNLV Innovation

UNLV Innovation is published by the Division of Research and Economic Development, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89154-1087.

2015 Unlv Innovation Back Cover

UNLV Innovation

No abstract provided.

2015 Annual Report On Unlv Research Activity

UNLV Innovation

An annual accounting of research and economic development productivity over the previous fiscal year.

The UNLV Division of Research and Economic Development reports annual data characterizing institutional research activity in order to evaluate campus research productivity and to facilitate benchmarking to promote future growth.

Data on sponsored programs expenditures, awards, and proposals, as well as technology transfer activity, doctoral conferrals, and more.

In Print, Corey Levitan

UNLV Innovation

Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990, Joanne Goodwin University of Nevada Press

Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement, Marketa Trimble Oxford University Press

Neuropsychological Aspects of Substance Use Disorders: Evidence-Based Perspective, Daniel Allen and Steven Paul Woods Oxford University Press

Racialized Schools: Understanding and Addressing Racism in Schools, Jesse Brinson and Shannon Smith Routledge

Face Of The Future, Megan Downs

UNLV Innovation

Paul Oh, robotics visionary, believes Nevada is poised to become the nation’s premier destination for all manner of “unmanned systems,” those technological marvels that are rapidly redrawing the boundaries between man and machine.

A Quest For Our Earliest Ancestors, Charles E. Reineke

UNLV Innovation

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.

Bullish On Research, Dan Michalski, Shane Bevell

UNLV Innovation

UNLV patent applications have tripled in the last two years, and three startup companies have been formed, demonstrating the university’s revitalized commitment to bringing its research to the marketplace. Learn about three innovative discoveries that are contributing to the remarkable growth in commercialization of UNLV research.

Deploying bacteriophages to boost sagging populations of honeybees; using lithium-rich antiperovskite to develop cheaper, safer batteries; pioneering new processes for recovering and separating crucial rare earth metals: In seeking solutions to real-world issues, these scientists’ projects have emerged as top candidates for commercialization.

Despair Interrupted, Afsha Bawany

UNLV Innovation

Both as a scholar and a social worker, Ramona Denby-Brinson has been changing conversations about child welfare, children’s mental health, cultural competency and social policy. Her goal? To help Nevada’s most vulnerable citizens get a shot at a better life .

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• Unwelcome flora
• An attack on HIV
• Body-camera survey
• Up-close Nobel laureates
• A battery-powered partnership
• Gaming law
• Robotic “muscles”
• Full-day kindergarten
• Funds for biomedical research
• A low-oxygen fish

Table Of Contents

UNLV Innovation

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The Power Of Partnership In Research

UNLV Innovation

It’s my distinct pleasure to invite you to read this issue of UNLV Innovation, the university’s research magazine. I’m delighted at the prospect of our many friends and supporters learning more about the exceptional research and scholarship at UNLV. Since arriving here last year, I’ve had the opportunity to meet many of the distinguished scientists and scholars on our campus, and I can tell you that the research expertise at UNLV is absolutely outstanding. -- Dr. Len Jessup, UNLV President

2015 Unlv Innovation Cover

UNLV Innovation

UNLV Innovation is published by the Division of Research & Graduate Studies, 4505 Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89154-1087.

2014 Unlv Innovation Back Cover

UNLV Innovation

No abstract provided.

2014 Annual Report On Unlv Research Activity

UNLV Innovation

The UNLV Division of Research and Economic Development reports annual data characterizing institutional research activity in order to evaluate campus research productivity and to facilitate benchmarking to promote future growth.

Data on sponsored programs expenditures, awards, and proposals, as well as technology transfer activity, doctoral conferrals, and more.

In Print, Todd Peterson

UNLV Innovation

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies, George Rhee Springer, 2013

Gandhi’s Teachers: Henry David Thoreau Satish, Sharma Gujarat Vidyapith, 2013

A City Within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan Todd E. Robinson Temple University Press, 2013

The Book of Important Moments, Richard Wiley Dzanc Books, 2013

Rx For Research Success: What Will A Medical School Bring To Unlv Research And Discovery?, Barbara Atkinson

UNLV Innovation

What impact will a medical school have on the university and its research endeavor? Simply put, medical schools that perform research are at the front lines of scientific innovation and discovery. They conduct sophisticated studies on diseases, drugs, and procedures that advance the practice of medicine, and they train their students to think outside the box about established courses of treatment. They also attract highly motivated faculty and students — the type of pioneering scientists and scholars who produce breakthroughs with real-world applications and commercialization potential.

In Nursing And Allied Health, Recent Research Promises Patient Benefits, Kevin Dunegan

UNLV Innovation

By expanding research and encouraging collaboration, UNLV’s nursing and allied health faculty are advancing patient outcomes.

• Yu Kuang
• Kai-Yu Ho
• Barbara St. Pierre Schneider
• Jennifer Kawi
• Susan VanBeuge
• Steen Madsen

Cultivating Research, Charles E. Reineke

UNLV Innovation

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 Tian