A new mechanism for guiding the growth of nerves that involves cell-death machinery has been found by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno that may bring advances in neurological medicine and research. The team obtained the evidence in studies of fruit flies and reported their discovery in an article ...
Nerve Regeneration Research And Therapy May Get Boost From New Discovery
Posted On Monday, March 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Cell Reports article, Center for Biomedical, Nerve regeneration, new discovery, School of Medicineneuroscience
A new mechanism for guiding the growth of nerves that involves cell-death machinery has been found by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno that may bring advances in neurological medicine and research. The team obtained the evidence in studies of fruit flies and reported their discovery in an article ...
Brain Awareness Week Comes to Nevada, K-12 Students Get to Touch Human Brain
Posted On Monday, March 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Brain Awareness, Discovery Museum, K-12 students, National Brain Awareness Week, University of Nevada, Wells Discovery Museum
Northern Nevada students will be learning about and viewing the human brain as part of National Brain Awareness Week March 18-23. The annual effort in Nevada by the University of Nevada, Reno and the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will target schools in rural counties this year, ...
EscaZyme Biochemicals Wins Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition
Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: EscaZyme Biochemicals, Foundation silver, Joe Crowley Student Union, Monroe-Schuler, Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition
A new company that uses the enzymes of bark beetles to control the devastating effects the beetles can have on a forest, EscaZyme Biochemicals, LLC, was awarded the $50,000 gold prize this week as the winner in the University of Nevada, Reno's Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition. The Monroe-Schuler Foundation silver prize ...
Public-Private Partnership to Provide New Graduate Student Housing at University
Posted On Sunday, March 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Balfour Beatty, Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, Graduate Education, Public-Private Partnership, Student housing
The ground lease has been approved for a public-private partnership that will result in 120 new living units on the University of Nevada, Reno campus next year to meet the needs of graduate students and students with families attending the University.
The lease agreement between the University and a private developer, ...
Internationally Acclaimed Slack Key Guitarist Makana
Posted On Sunday, February 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: challenging style technically, Matthew Swalinkavich, Nightingale Concert, University of Nevada
According to Matthew Swalinkavich, known by fans as Makana, there are obvious reasons that few musicians master slack key guitar.
"It's a very challenging style technically, and it's hard to learn just watching someone on the Internet or listening to a record," he said during a recent phone interview. "There's a ...
Marching Band Meets Annual Greater Nevada Credit Union Fundraising Challenge
Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Greater Nevada Credit Union, It's Time to Support the Band, Nevada Credit Union, Pride of the Sierra
Greater Nevada Credit Union members, University of Nevada, Reno alumni and other donors rallied over the last few months to raise money during "It's Time to Support the Band," a fundraising campaign to benefit the University's Marching Band, known as the "Pride of the Sierra." With end-of -year donations, Greater ...
Commission For Future Of University Holds Open Forum
Posted On Monday, February 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: David Ryfe, Joe Crowley Student Union, multi-disciplinary collaboration, University of Nevada, University's uniqueness, W. Reynolds School of Journalism
Major themes stress University's uniqueness, multi-disciplinary collaboration
Two members of the Commission for the Future of the University of Nevada, Reno presented the commission's findings and recommendations Wednesday during an open forum in the theater of the Joe Crowley Student Union.
The event was held in advance of a Faculty Senate vote ...
NSBDC Provides Free Workshop On Intellectual Property Feb. 27
Posted On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: intellectual property, Nevada Small Business, Reno College of Business, University of Nevada
The laws regarding intellectual property - copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents - change regularly and can be confusing, even to those with a solid background in business. The Nevada Small Business Development Center (NSBDC) and the University of Nevada, Reno College of Business will offer a free two-hour workshop ...
School of Medicine Hosts Student National Medical Association
Posted On Monday, February 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Deborah Kuhls, National Leadership Conference, University of Nevada, University of Nevada School of Medicine
The University of Nevada School of Medicine hosted the National Leadership Conference for the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) on Jan. 25 through 27 at its Las Vegas campus. Nearly 80 medical and pre-medical student leaders from across the county attended this weekend event.
According to its web site, the SNMA ...
Bagne, Kelly Named Classified Employees Of Month
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Classified Employees, Gina Bagne, Nancy Kelly, Staff Employees Council
Gina Bagne, a facility attendant in Residential Life Housing and Food Service, and Nancy Kelly, a personnel analyst in the College of Engineering, have been named Classified Employees of the Month for January 2013 by the Staff Employees Council.
Bagne was commended for her actions on the morning of Oct. 13, ...
NSBDC Offers Workshop To Help Nevada Businesses Win Federal Funds
Posted On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Federal funds, National Institutes of Health, NSBDC, Small Business Technology Transfer Programs, University of Nevada
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (SBIR/STTR) are federally funded programs that support companies pursuing innovative technologies, and together, they comprise the largest start-up fund in the country. In an effort to bring more of these grants to Nevada, the Nevada Small Business Development Center (NSBDC) ...
Graduate Student Wins Reno Chamber Orchestra College Concerto Competition
Posted On Monday, January 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: College Concerto Competition, Concerto Competition, graduate student, Reno Chamber Orchestra
Not even a year after Kayleigh Miller was diagnosed with a non-cancerous brain tumor, she will grace the stage with the Reno Chamber Orchestra at the University of Nevada, Reno's Nightingale Concert Hall to perform Penderecki's Viola Concerto, a musical piece with which she won the 24th Annual College Concerto ...
John Muntean New Director of Center for Research in Economic Geology
Posted On Sunday, January 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Center for Research in Economic Geology, Earth Sciences, Engineering, John Muntean, Mackay School
John Muntean has been named director of the Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology at the University of Nevada, Reno. The research center, in the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, collaborates with mining companies and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Muntean will lead the center in ...
College of Business Brings TEDx Event To University
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Bret Simmons, College of Business, Shawna Korgan, TEDxUniversityofNevada
Presenters to speak Jan. 25 at TEDx, participants to connect through conversations about entrepreneurship, education, health care and bold ideas
The University of Nevada, Reno College of Business is sponsoring the inaugural TEDxUniversityofNevada, an independently organized TEDx program, bringing a combination of live presenters and videos to spark deep conversation and ...
Spanish Engineering Students Kick Off Exchange Agreement
Posted On Thursday, January 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Engineering, Iñaki Arruabarrena, New York Times, Paul Bretos, University of Nevada
According to Iñaki Arruabarrena, it was luck that landed him and Paul Bretos at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The pair, who are students at Tecnun School of Engineering in San Sebastian, Spain, recently wrapped up a semester at Nevada as the first students to participate in an exchange agreement between ...
