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Justin Lopez. right, graduates from the University of Nevada, Reno this spring with the highest grade-point average. The Bishop Manogue Catholic High School alumnus is awarded the 2013 Herz Gold Medal for outstanding scholarship and is congratulated Friday, May 17 by University President Marc Johnson. Photo by Theresa Danna-Douglas, University of Nevada, Reno.

Andrew Geraci, professor in the University of Nevada, Reno physics department, demonstrates an apparatus that is of part of an experiment that uses similar technology to his gravitational wave detector. This equipment uses levitated nanospheres in an optical trap for investigations of the gravitational force at the micron length scale, where some theories in high-energy physics predicts there will be a deviation from the Newtonian inverse square law of gravitation. Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.

Rita Escher, director of academic and opportunity support services of the University of Nevada, Reno TRiO Program, wins the Service Award at the 2013 Western Association of Educational Opportunity Personnel Conference in Hololulu, Hiawaii. Picture here is Escher (center) assisting TRiO students in her office.

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