At UNLV, Bo Bernhard has gone from casino chips to real money. The head of the International Gaming Institute and longtime UNLV academic was just named interim associate vice president for economic development. In that role, he will help monetize research conducted at UNLV, such as the recent breakthrough in room-temperature electrical superconducting, which promises to reduce power loss during electrical transmission. Bernhard told KNPR's State of Nevada that the technology developed by UNLV physicist Ashkan Salamat and University of Rochester physicist Ranga Dias is the "holy grail" of physics. “From business and economic perspectives, this has an opportunity to catapult Southern Nevada’s economic diversification,” he said.