Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Pouya Shojaeishahmirzadi (Mechanical Engineering) recently was awarded the 2017-18 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Graduate College STEM Fellowship. Shojaeishahmirzadi is pursuing a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering. Professor Woosoon Yim is his advisor.
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Graduate College STEM Fellowship is granted over four semesters to support newly admitted doctoral…
Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) has been selected for the 2017 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program to conduct research at the Air Force Research Laboratory. The fellowship also will support graduate student Russell Harkanson (Computer Science).
The program, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, offers hands-on…
Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was awarded 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award at the 2017 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Academic Achievement Award Ceremony on April 19. Recipient of this award must be a full-time academic faculty member who has completed five years of teaching at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó and has been recommended by both their…
Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) was presented the prestigious Harry Reid Silver State Research Award at the 2017 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Academic Achievement Award Ceremony.
The award was created in 2001 to honor longtime U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and to recognize faculty who have performed research that is both highly regarded and responsive to the needs…
Daniel Gerrity (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was one of two 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó faculty awarded the Barrick Scholar Award at the 2017 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Academic Achievement Award Ceremony on April 19.
The Barrick Scholar Award is presented to faculty members with less than 10 years of service in an academic environment after the terminal degree. It…
Tyler Stalbaum (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the 2017 Graduate Regents' Scholar Award for 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Academic Achievement Award Ceremony April 19.
The award is based on distinguished academic accomplishments, leadership ability, and service contributions as a registered NSHE student, as well as on the recipient’s potential for…
Justin Zhan (Computer Science) is the winner of this year's College Distinguished Researcher Award. The selection is based on the review of the applicants by faculty in other institutions. The focus of Zhan's research is the general area of big data analytics, precision medicine, health care informatics, biomedical computing, information privacy…
Albert Antero (Computer Science) has reached the undergraduate finals in the Governor's Cup Business Plan Competition with his plan for Game Trainer, an esports website where users learn how to improve at video games, and get trained and coached by top-ranking competitive players.
The Governor’s Cup is designed to encourage students of…
David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, Fatma Nasoz, William E. Brown, Jr., and Caitlin J. Saladino (The Lincy Institute) are the authors of a new policy brief, "Rethinking Cooperative Extension in Southern Nevada."
Abstract: This brief examines the definition and allocation of land-grant status to higher education institutions in Nevada.…
Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) just returned from a visit to King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he served as a member of the ABET engineering accreditation team for evaluating their engineering programs. The main campus in Jeddah has more than 82,000 students.
Lily Sender (Mechanical Engineering) became the first Rebel women's soccer player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America honors after her breakout senior season. 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó women's soccer's record-setting season continues to be rewarded as Sender was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, announced by the National Soccer Coaches…
Daniel Gerrity (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Duane Moser of the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) submitted a winning proposal for the first year of the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó-DRI Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This award will allow the pair to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to…