Dr. Robleto is one of five Hispanic Professors in the College of Sciences, which has a total of 151 faculty. Dr. Robleto is a native of Nicaragua and got his BSc in 1986 from the Escuela Agricola Panamericana in Honduras. He earned his MSc in 1994 and PhD in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Also, he was a  Postdoctoral fellow at UW Madison and Tufts School of Medicine during 1998-2002. In 2002, Dr. Robleto started at UNLV as an Assistant Professor. Currently, Dr. Robleto is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences and the Program Coordinator of Nevada-INBRE, a programmatic grant funded by NIH to improve biomedical research in the State of Nevada. The Robleto research program studies DNA repair and mutagenesis and is funded by the NIH and NSF. Dr. Robleto believes that strong and committed mentoring empowers students to meet their potential in research and academic development. Providing role models for diverse students fosters a learning and inclusive environment that promotes innovation and creativity at UNLV and consequently improves the workforce of the nation. 

Dr. Harris is a Professor at UNLV in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford University and has worked at Hewlett Packard, Nvidia, and the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before joining the UNLV faculty in 2014, she was a faculty member at Harvey Mudd College for ten years. Her research interests include embedded systems, biomedical engineering, and robotics, and she has co-authored three popular textbooks, most recently Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition in 2021.

Kurt Regner, Ph.D., Professor in Residence, School of Life Sciences. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Regner has served as the PI for two NSF REU Sites, A Broad View of Environmental Microbiology (2007-14) and Mechanism of Evolution (2014-23).  In addition, he serves as the coPI for RII-BEC: Enhancing the Transition of COVID-19 Disadvantaged Students from Undergraduate to Graduate Studies in STEM through Multi-Year Undergraduate Research Experiences (OIA 2225755). Dr. Regner is the faculty evaluator for two NSF awards:  CAREER: Using indel rate variation to understand evolutionary constraints on distances between functional elements in the genome (DBI 175053) and the REU Site: Smart Cities – Intelligent, Safe, and Secure Mobility (EEC 1950872). He has created two course-based research experiences (CUREs) and served as a mentor for the UNLV Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) research fellowship.