by Admin | May 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Improving Health, UArizona
Research projects will address the pandemic from various angles, including public health, virology and drug discovery. As of April 28, more than 6,500 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state of Arizona. To address this burden on a local and global scale,...
by Admin | May 8, 2020 | ASU, Improving Health, Innovations
Nanotechnology is a hot topic in the engineering world. Discoveries at this tiny scale — meaning billionths of a meter, or the distance that fingernails grow each second — are inspiring optical and electronic innovations in fields ranging from medicine to...
by Admin | May 8, 2020 | ASU, COVID-19, Improving Health, News, Universities
“I learned early in my life that anything I set my mind to, I could do,” said Brenda Hogue, professor and researcher at Arizona State University. “It always requires work and there may be a few challenges, but in the end, you’ll be glad you stuck with what drives...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, NAU, Universities
For decades at field stations across the Arctic, permafrost researchers like Northern Arizona University’s Ted Schuur have walked up to pipes drilled into the frozen ground and, with highly sensitive thermometers attached to cables, taken the Earth’s temperature....
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, NAU, Universities
Professor Loren Buck, environmental physiologist and associate director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation (CBI), is leading a new project that has the potential to change nothing less than the way scientists understand life on...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU, Universities
A new paper by Northern Arizona University professor Andrew Richardson published in the journal Scientific Data describes a vast network of digital cameras designed to capture millions of images documenting seasonal changes of vegetation across North America. The...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU
A pilot project has the potential to unlock a critical bottleneck in forest restoration and wildfire prevention efforts across northern Arizona by creating markets for restoration byproducts like wood chips from small-diameter trees. The pilot project, led by...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
In November 2017, a team of scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward a comet-like object known as ’Oumuamua—the first interstellar body ever found in our solar system—but the object proved too faint for the infrared telescope to detect. Though...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU
In anticipation of sending humans to Mars by 2033, NASA scientists are searching for suitable locations to land on the Red Planet. Ideally, these potential landing sites would have high scientific value for exploration while offering natural resources to sustain human...
by Admin | May 1, 2020 | News
A new report commissioned by the Flinn Foundation reveals the Technology and Research Initiative Fund, or TRIF, led to a growth of startups, patents, and license income, the creation of new bioscience institutes, the retention and recruitment of faculty, as well as a...
