Hi Meghan / Paul,
Thanks for your replies. I have already been discussing some potential research ideas with some of our faculty (David Feil-Seifer, Shamik Sengupta, Kostas Alexis, Fred Harris).
Not sure if you are using #slack but if you want to participate I created a slack workspace (https://join.slack.com/t/nvepscor/signup) that anyone within NSHE with a unr.edu, dri.edu, unlv.edu can join (seems a bit more useful than this forum).
Look forward to discussing.