by Admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Universities
Allen Clarke, a Computer Science and Mathematics double major, has been sharpening his software development abilities at NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI). He is leveraging his programming expertise to create tools that help PMI researchers complete their...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Innovations, NAU, Student Stories, Universities
Amid a national opioid crisis, chemistry major Noelle Waltenburg is finding ways to help people move on from their addiction. She and other students in assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry Naomi Lee’s lab are researching an opioid vaccine that could be...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2020 | ASU, Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
“I don’t know what to call it,” said Joseph Espinoza, “but I feel like I have to do something about it. I have to try to find some answers.” In 2018 Espinoza experienced an unexpected confluence of his personal life and his work as an undergraduate researcher. That...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
As a child, whenever Jacob Hyden was away from the lights of his hometown of Phoenix, he would spend hours looking at the night sky. “I was always inquisitive about space and the stars,” he said. “I was always looking up.” So when he came to NAU, he naturally...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Universities
Tim Becker, an associate professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, is developing a polypropylene glycol-based biomaterial called PPODA-QT, which is similar to body tissue, to treat aneurysms in the brain and...
