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Table of Contents – Summer 2005

Messages from Dr. Carol Harter, UNLV President, and Dr. Paul Ferguson, Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies PDF
   
Features  

Stress in the Desert »
The Mojave may be hard on living things, but UNLV scientists are having a field day.

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Prestigious Professors »
Meet UNLV’s dynamic winners of the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award.

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Nevada’s Nuclear Past »
An important UNLV oral history project preserves the stories of those involved with the Nevada Test Site.

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Ancient Cultures in Arid Lands » Anthropology professor Alan Simmons digs into the history of humankind in the Middle East.

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Departments  

Campus »
The Shadow Lane Campus has emerged as a leading facility for health, biomedical, and biotechnological education and research.

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Books »
UNLV faculty authors shed light on medieval science, airfield pavements, and more.

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Progress Report »
The department of educational psychology earns high marks in U.S. News & World Report.

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Enhancing Research »
UNLV's Supercomputing Center facilitates research nationwide.

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Research Report »
Trends in UNLV research funding.

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End Notes »
The evolution of research at UNLV.

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The Power of the Desert - UNLV Distinguished Professor of Engineering Dr. Robert Boehm understands the desert's power in a literal sense. He believes that by tapping its plentiful solar, wind, and geothermal resources, Nevada could become a major supplier of the nation's energy. But he and many other UNLV scholars recognize the desert's figurative power as well - that of inspiration. On the following pages of our inaugural issue of Fusion, we celebrate the university's unique backyard laboratory and the research that thrives because of it.

Biological sciences professor Peter Starkweather collects and studies tiny organisms that come to life in the temporary pools that form in the desert after it rains. Starkweather and several of his colleagues are participants in UNLV's Integrated Approaches to Abiotic Stress Program, which is dedicated to discovering how organisms overcome the stresses of the desert environment.

Anthropology professor Alan Simmons examines the fossilized remains on an extinct species of small hippopotamus found on Cyprus. The fossils and other cultural artifacts found at the site have challenged conventional thought about the colonization of the Mediterranean islands.