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KEYS Experience Comes Full-Circle for Past Intern

KEYS Experience Comes Full-Circle for Past Intern

by TeamTRIF | Jun 29, 2020 | Student Stories, UArizona

Ricky Cordova learned an invaluable lesson during his time as a KEYS intern that he now passes on to his own KEYS mentees. Life often works in mysterious ways. Intangible forces can influence us without obvious rhyme or reason, but sometimes, they can bring us full...
Hunting dangerous pathogens

Hunting dangerous pathogens

by Admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, Universities

Like a police detective, Amalee Nunnally is looking for a killer. But instead of a blue uniform and badge, Amalee wears a white lab coat. A junior microbiology major, she is engaged in a research project to detect a pathogen, Clostridium difficile, in the Flagstaff...
Taking the bite out of fleas

Taking the bite out of fleas

by Admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Student Stories, Universities

Shelby Hutton pours fleas from Madagascar out of a vial, each hanging on to the others in a huge ball. Yes, the NAU junior biology major says, insects can be “gross,” but she is fascinated by the dynamic and complex role they play as vectors carrying plague to human...
Faculty mentors inspire undergraduate researcher to focus on mosquito-borne viruses

Faculty mentors inspire undergraduate researcher to focus on mosquito-borne viruses

by Admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Improving Health, Innovations, NAU, Student Stories, Universities

Despite the fact that Daryn Erickson’s research regularly involves making what she refers to as “mosquito smoothies”—preparing mosquito samples in the blender for testing–she loves her work. Daryn has been working at NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI) for...
A cultural approach to cancer prevention

A cultural approach to cancer prevention

by Admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, Universities

Finding common ground—an unexpected side effect of cancer research project The first time he drove to the Hopi reservation, NAU senior Jordan Ojeda found himself in an unfamiliar landscape. Unlike the Phoenix suburb where he grew up, on the reservation there are no...
Undergraduate researcher uses bioinformatics to find connections between gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s

Undergraduate researcher uses bioinformatics to find connections between gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s

by Admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Improving Health, NAU, Student Stories, Universities

Chris Keefe is blending his passions for biology and computer science to help tackle the sixth leading cause of death in the United States—Alzheimer’s disease. To do that, he is using microbiome bioinformatics and computer software development to investigate the...
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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.

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