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Piping Water From Rural Counties To Fuel Growth In Las Vegas, Nevada: Water Transfer Risks In The Arid Usa West, Lisa Welsh, Joanna Endter-Wada

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) plans to build a 300-mile pipeline to transfer groundwater from five rural basins in north-eastern Nevada south to the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area. Relying on the path dependence literature, we trace the policy choices and legal battles that have led to southern Nevada’s proposed Groundwater Development Project. We find that policy decisions over time, often initiated by powerful water policy entrepreneurs, have fuelled southern Nevada’s rapid growth and development. After emphasising water demand management for more than two decades, SNWA has revived its controversial plans to increase water supplies by importing water from …

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.

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

Premier, Stowe Shoemaker, Joyce Gorsuch

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

No abstract provided.

Premier, Joyce Gorsuch, Alexandra Liebman, Maggie Hausbeck, Bobbie Barnes, Kyle Helms

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

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.

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.

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

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 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

Paths To Innovation, Megan Downs, Robyn Campbell-Ouchida, Shane Bevell

UNLV Innovation

As uncertainties cloud the future of funding support for higher education, UNLV’s ability to market its intellectual property becomes ever more crucial. Three projects provide textbook cases for how it’s done.

• Kwang Kim
• Mark Yoseloff
• Bryan Spangelo

Array Of Accomplishment, Charles E. Reineke

UNLV Innovation

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.

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• Switch SUPERNAP, Intel Partner with UNLV to Boost Scientific Research and Economic Development
• How Long Is It Safe To Stay In Space?
• “Exquisitely Preserved” Fossil Find Sheds Light on a Distant Era
• Graduate Programs Earn High Marks from U.S. News
• Southwest Found To Be Among the Most “Climate-Challenged” Regions in the Nation
• Public Weighs in on Pros and Cons of Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Historical Nevada Newspapers To Be Digitized Through NEH Grant
• Earth’s Most Plentiful Mineral Finally Makes an Appearance
• $1.4 Million Grant To Expand Clinical Social Work Education & Research
• Researchers Employ Bluetooth Technology In Blood-Flow Sensor

Seismic Response Of An Older Bridge In Nevada Under Maximum Considered Earthquake, Ryan Thomas Isaac

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Given the aging infrastructure in the United States, a study was conducted on an older bridge in Nevada to determine its performance under the maximum considered earthquake. A suite of eight synthetic site-specific ground motions, including a spectrum-matched “RSP” record, were applied along both the longitudinal and transverse axes of Bridge G-953 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The supplementary materials contain the original drawings of Bridge G-953 for reference, including changes to the expansion joints and the addition of cable restrainers at the in-span hinges. A detailed model, including the effects of column nonlinearity, material degradation such as shear keys, abutment …

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Police Services

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

This Is Not The Color Yellow | A Thesis On Projecting Materiality, Annagrace Walton

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis reimagines the traditional materiality of the architectural façade by coupling the functional and aesthetic expectations of the day-lit building face with the supplementary material and narrative possibilities of a projected night time display. Engaging the potential of new architectural technologies, the thesis celebrates both the novel and sensational qualities of physically manifested materials and textures while simultaneously exploring the future possibilities of virtual and augmented materials through digital projection mapping.

Set in spectacle-friendly Las Vegas, Nevada, the test site for this experimentation is the Flamingo Resort in Las Vegas, a pivotal intersection of pedestrian and motor traffic. Re-cladding …

Unlv 101, Unlv Communications

UNLV 101

No abstract provided.

Death Vegas Valley, Eric M. Diehl

Theses and Dissertations

My work explores hallucinatory landscapes of the US American West by using a combination of painting styles outside of the Western painting canon. I cross-reference painting and cinema, interweaving video, acrylic paint and the panorama to create a satirical homage to the history and present state of the USA. However, through an earnest devotion to the medium - both painting and cinema - I find my criticisms also yearn to hold onto a belief in a myth I know to be false.

This is an American History conversation about artifice and consumerism through advertising. I use Las Vegas and the …

Premier, Gina Agrellas, Jordan Cloward, Bobby Cordell, Kyle Helms, Francis Mccabe

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

No abstract provided.

Premier, Stowe Shoemaker, Francis Mccabe, Angela Ramsy

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

No abstract provided.

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Police Services

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

Annual Report On Unlv Research Activity, Unlv Innovations Staff Writer

UNLV Innovation

The UNLV Division of Research and Economic Development reports data characterizing institutional research activity in order to measure and evaluate campus research productivity and to facilitate benchmarking to promote future growth. The following report contains compilations of standard institutional research metrics, as well as pertinent graduate education data.

From Breakthrough To Business, Unlv Innovations Staff Writer

UNLV Innovation

UNLV faculty discoveries have commercial applications with value to the university, the private sector, and, ultimately, you. Learn about three different faculty members who are working to move their innovative thinking out of the laboratory and into the boardroom.

A Place In The Sun, Unlv Innovation Staff Writer

UNLV Innovation

Talent and hard work helped Team UNLV earn their top-in-the-nation ranking in the Solar Decathlon 2013. But research is the next priority for several team members after the award-winning home is relocated to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.

Research Briefs, Unlv Innovation Staff Writer

UNLV Innovation

• UNLV Leads $20 Million Project on Solar Energy-Water Nexus
• UNLV to Receive $20.3 Million NIH Grant to Support Clinical and Bench-to-Bedside Research
• Fossilized Remains of Extinct Wolf Species Discovered In Nevada
• Physicist Seeks to Build a Safer, More Efficient Lithium-ion Battery
• Study: Elevated Levels of Lead Found in Mexican Hot Sauces
• Extreme Climate Change Linked to Early Animal Evolution

A Top-Tier University, A Thriving State, Neal J. Smatresk, Thomas C. Piechota

UNLV Innovation

It shouldn’t surprise you to learn that all major metropolitan areas across the United States are home to top-tier research universities. Each of these universities contributes in myriad ways to the success of their cities: They help create a thriving economy, a sophisticated and productive work force, and a vibrant quality of life. These universities generate the kind of capital, both human and monetary, that helps their communities flourish. So it is a bit mystifying to most people why Las Vegas and the state of Nevada lack a research university of this strength and caliber.

E-Premier, Stowe Shoemaker, Katherine Jackson, Jeremy Aguero, Ericka Aviles, Christopher P. Cain

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

No abstract provided.

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Police Services

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

A collection of poems related to places in the Mojave Desert and the Las Vegas area or in rural central Michigan. Most poems deal with history and memory and the overlapping nature of experience.