Articles by Shane Bevell

The Last Supper?
Super-Earths might have cleaned the inner regions of the solar system and then been swallowed by the sun.

New Faces: Boo Shan Tseng
This Life Sciences professor is all about communities — from the bacterial ones she studies (yuck) to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó community she is pleased to have joined.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Biologist Lawrence Walker Wins Nevada Regents’ Top Research Award
An internationally recognized plant ecologist, Walker becomes the second consecutive 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó professor to win the Nevada Regents' Researcher Award.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Geoscientist Awarded Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award
Geoscience professor Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath honored for early career accomplishments; research focuses on geochemistry, chemical interactions and soil-forming processes on Mars.

Homegrown Scholar
A nearly native Las Vegan, Nemanja Novakovic had planned to leave Nevada when it came time for college. But that was before he discovered his academic dreams could be fulfilled at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó to Advance Nuclear Forensics Research as Part of National Consortium
Radiochemistry program teaming with universities, national labs for research and development in nuclear science and security; five-year grant funded by U.S. Department of Energy.

Cleaner Rare Earths
Our high-tech marvels demand rare earth metals and oxides. 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó researchers are working to make extracting them less toxic and more efficient.

Digging Up Mammoth Fossils
51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó paleontologists recover mammoth fossils northwest of 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp.

Tackling Alzheimer's Disease
Three 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó scientists will present their work during an Alzheimer's research symposium Nov. 13 on campus.