Studying Asteroids

Studying Asteroids

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...
Developing A Cancer Vaccine

Developing A Cancer Vaccine

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...
Water Detectives

Water Detectives

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...