Posts Tagged ‘ research ’

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE University of Nevada, Reno and InfoSearch release survey results According to northern Nevada business leaders, economic conditions may have bottomed out in 2009, as their economic outlook for 2010 is much more optimistic than it was a year ago. The Center for Regional Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno College of Business with...
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The Nevada System of Higher Education has received $5.7 million-over the past two fiscal years-from the U.S. Department of Energy for renewable energy, including the latest installment, $3.2 million to be used for a renewable energy consortium – an association between the three NSHE research institutions and participating community colleges. This support is the result...
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UNR NEWS RELEASE: Today it was announced that a recently identified retrovirus has been linked to a debilitating neuro-immune disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). The retroviral link was discovered by scientists from the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI), located at the University of Nevada School of Medicine on the campus of the University of Nevada,...
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UNR NEWS RELEASE: University in top 50 of nation’s public research universities: ties to community, industry important in continuing success Growing algae for fuel, building artificial skin with nanomaterials, mimicking the creation of high temperature plasma around black holes and figuring out how to make large concrete structures safer during earthquakes are just a few...
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UNR NEWS RELEASE: A team of a dozen undergraduate students at the University of Nevada, Reno spent their summer working to transform the genes that synthesize cinnamon oil into plants that can then be used as an eco-friendly mosquito killer. Their project will be in competition with projects from 120 teams worldwide at the annual International...
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