Keeping Us Safe | Faces of TRIF

NAU professor addressing need for conservation of springs in drying climate

by Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Keeping Us Safe, NAU, Universities

A Northern Arizona University professor co-authored a paper on the importance of springs in a drying climate that is in the inaugural climate change refugia special edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The issue focuses on refugia, which refers to...

Keeping Earth safe from impact: NAU astronomer worked with international team to conduct global planetary defense exercise

by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Keeping Us Safe, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities

Scientists have discovered nearly all “extinction-scale” Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs (asteroids larger than 1 kilometer in diameter) and determined they pose no risk of impact in the near future. But there are still thousands of smaller NEOs that pose a potential...

Fighting Against Weapons of Mass Destruction

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...

Innovating for Arizonans

The TRIF initiative, or Technology and Research Initiative Fund, increased the state’s sales tax per proposition 301 to promote university research, development, and technology transfer related to the knowledge-based global economy and to expand access to baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate education, among other priorities. TRIF Priorities include: Improving Health; Water, Environment & Energy Solutions; Space Exploration & Optical Solutions; and Defense & Security Systems. For the most recent Arizona Board of Regents TRIF Annual Report visit the ABOR site.