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OUR events
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During this appointment, you'll meet with an advisor who will help you narrow down your research interests and find a faculty mentor. 

What is research advising?

100

This building is located near FDH and is where future U-STAR meetings will be held!

What is the student union?

100

this process involves experts evaluating manuscripts quality and validity before publication

What is peer review?

100

This lab in the department of psychology is run by Dr. Copeland and studies reasoning and memory.

What is the reasoning and memory lab?

100

This upcoming event will help you evaluate research topics you may be interested in.

What is Identifying Feasible Research Topics That Can Make an Impact?

200

Students in the office of undergraduate research who provide support and feedback throughout your research journey

What is a peer mentor?

200

This fine arts building is located near the library and became a museum in 2012

What is the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art?

200

variable manipulated by researcher to observe effect on other variable

What is a dependent variable?

200

This lab investigates both endogenous and exogenous cannabinoids and their effects on interneurons and glial cells.

What is the HINES lab?

200

This event is generally held at the end of the summer and is a boot camp for students interested in learning more about research.

What is the research boot camp?

300

UNLV's official undergraduate research journal

What is SPECTRA?

300

Our newest UNLV photo-op location, In between two green fields

What is the new UNLV sign?

300

Statement predicting outcome of study

What is a hypothesis?

300

This lab utilizes in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques along with genetic, metabolic, and behavioral manipulations to understand how information about contexts, memory, and reward are computed in and between different brain areas.

What is the HIVE lab?

300

This conference-style event allows student to present their original research as a digital poster, lightning talk, or podium presentation.

What is the undergraduate research symposium?

400

This repository serves as an online database of undergraduate student research and relevant materials.

DUREP

400

Tallest building on campus with administrative offices

What is FDH?

400

Participants are required to give this before participating in a study 

What is informed consent?

400

This UNLV lab in the Department of Brain health investigates Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury using transgenic mouse models and biomarker discovery.

What is the Kinney lab?

400

This upcoming event will discuss strategies for evaluating potential publishers.

What is Fake Journals & Real Consequences: Identifying and Avoiding Predatory Publishers?

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Students who participate in this summer program receive a stipend and work with a faculty mentor in a research field of their interest. 

What is SURF?

500

Performance venue that gets a lot of sun

What is the alumni ampitheater?

500

in linear regression models this statistic indicates proportion of variance in a dependent variable that is predictable from independent variables/values

What is a R^2 value?

500

This Boyd law center provides a forum for the advanced study of the nature of conflict.

What is the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution?

500

These presentations are usually held remotely and provide an overview for specific skills, like writing a research abstract

What is an RSA?