Education
- William Dwight Billings – preeminent ecologist who served as faculty in the Department of Biology from 1938 to 1952 and is known as the father of physiological ecology and for his contributions in desert and arctic ecology; in 1989, received the Nevada medal presented by Governor Bob Miller [1]
- Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP, EMT-P – clinical professor, School of Medicine Emergency Department; emergency physician, University Medical Center
- T. Brian Callister, M.D. – associate professor, Internal Medicine; physician; health care quality and policy expert
- James E. Church – best known for having developed the Mount Rose snow sampler (1906), the first instrument for measuring snow water content
- Nellie Shaw Harnar, M.A. – historian of Native American history
- Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. – foundation professor, clinical psychology; developer of acceptance and commitment therapy; [2] also known for his work on relational frame theory
- John Marini, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute [3]
- Anne Henrietta Martin – established the university's department of history; first woman to run for the United States Senate
- James Richardson, Ph.D. – sociologist, critic of "cultic brainwashing" theories
- Wolfram Samlowski – clinical professor of medicine; member of the Research Developmental Therapeutics and Genitourinary Committees for the US Oncology Network
- James G. Scrugham – professor of mechanical engineering, 1903-1914; dean, 1914-1917; served as governor, representative, and senator from Nevada
- C. Richard Tracy – professor of biology; director of the Biological Resources Research Center; Vada Trimble Outstanding Mentor (1999); UNR Graduate Advisor of the Year (2008); Nevada System of Higher Education Most Outstanding Graduate Advisor (2008)
- Glenn Wilson, Ph.D. – adjunct professor of Psychology, 1994–2002; taught and established the field of psychology for performing artists; produced the standard text on the topic
- Esmail Zanjani – in 2007, led scientists at the School of Medicine and created a sheep with 15% human cells and 85% animal cells, the world's first "human-sheep chimera", which has the body of a sheep but half-human organs [4]
