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Gideon Caplovitz, a vision scientist and University of Nevada, Reno assistant professor of psychology in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Program, for the third time in nine years has placed in the top 10 among contestants from around the world in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Photo courtesy of Theresa Danna-Douglas.

Beth Leger shows off specimens used in her research about climate effects on plant size in Nevada’s Great Basin. The plant, Collinsia parviflora, Blue-eyed Mary, is one of the most common spring annuals in this area. Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.

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.

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