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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
