by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Innovations, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
What can the asteroid Bennu tell us about the universe and its origins? Ask NAU Assistant astronomy professor Cristina Thomas. Thomas is a team member of NASA’s OSIRIS REx mission, which landed on the asteroid late last year and is collecting samples of regolith, or...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Innovations, Learning Labs, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
The KEYS High School Summer Internship Program provides hands-on research opportunities to talented students from diverse backgrounds. By introducing the students to all facets of science research at the University of Arizona, KEYS — which stands for Keep Engaging...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Innovations, Learning Labs, Looking Beyond, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
L’SPACE, a program at Arizona State University is starting undergraduate students on a career path that could lead them to join NASA spaceflight mission teams. Funded at $5.04 million for three years by NASA, the program — dubbed L’SPACE (for Lucy Student...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | ASU, Innovations, Keeping Us Safe, Universities
The ASU team, led by Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute and director of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and co-principal investigator Vel Murugan, aims to develop a technology that will use a single drop of blood to quickly read a...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Improving Health, Student Stories, UArizona, Universities
Jen Koevary, Ph.D. is Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Avery Therapeutics. Dr. Koevary has a background in business development and medical device R&D. She was previously responsible for commercialization of university technology at the University of...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | A Better World, ASU, Innovations, Universities
“The concept of wastes or waste products is obsolete – the focus and the future are used resource recovery.” Dr. Bruce Rittmann Dr. Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D., is the director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Improving Health, Innovations, UArizona, Universities
Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD is a professor and vice chair of dermatology for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. She holds joint roles as the director of the Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Program and the clinical director for the...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | ASU, Improving Health, Innovations, Universities
For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop a universal vaccine to prevent cancer. In...
by Admin | Dec 16, 2019 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Universities
Professor Jani Ingram is lead researcher for the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention, investigating the environmental exposure of uranium within Navajo communities and how it poses a significant cancer risk. Dr. Jani Ingram is an Associate Professor of...
by Admin | Dec 15, 2019 | A Better World, ASU, Universities
Environmental entrepreneurs receive national recognition Identified as “a powerful new model for the environmental field,” Professor Rolf Halden’s One Water One Health, an environmental justice organization, launched at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State...
