Northern Arizona University researchers Pamela Bosch, Indrakshi Roy and Amit Kumar co-authored a study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that found non-white and lower-income Americans are more likely to have worse health outcomes after a stroke than their white or higher-income counterparts.
Funded through a $418,000 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging, assistant professor Emily Cope, associate professor Greg Caporaso and professor Egbert Schwartz recently began working together on “Development of in vivo quantitative stable isotope probing to quantify microbiome dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease.”
Quantum computing can change almost everything about the world we live in, but despite the billions of dollars spent studying it, it’s still too unwieldy for regular use. NAU assistant professor Ryan Behunin is working to change that. He received an NSF CAREER grant to study how to reduce the noise produced in the process of quantum computing, which will make it better and more practical.
Planetary scientist Christopher Edwards and his team will use renewed NASA funding for Mars Science Lab Curiosity Rover project to continue exploring the rock record on the Red Planet.
To address these inequities on an institutional level, a multidisciplinary team of researchers will partner with Diné College and NAU-Yuma to launch two related projects, supported through nearly $1.3 million in funding overall. Their ultimate goal is to recruit, train and place students from historically excluded groups into STEM careers.
The boreal forest is a belt of cold-tolerant conifer trees that stretches nearly 9,000 miles across northern North American and Eurasia; it makes up almost a quarter of the Earth's forest area. It's also the coldest—and most rapidly warming—forest biome on the planet, and its shifting characteristics amid climate change are raising concerns about increased fire activity, decreased biodiversity and other long-term adverse effects for the human and natural ecosystems.
The "Ebola virus of the amphibian world" is as unpleasant as it sounds, but a species of salamander that lives in Arizona found a way to live with the endemic disease. As the climate changes, viruses change along with it, and this unpredictable virus could have a more severe effect on different species in the future.
The West sees destructive wildfires every year—yet it hadn’t seen anything like the Camp Fire. Three months after the most destructive wildfire in recent history, wildfire sociologist Catrin Edgeley went to the devastated town of Paradise to learn how residents and town leaders were recovering. Edgeley wanted to know how lessons learned in one disaster could be individualized and applied to other fires—lessons that are increasingly important in Arizona as climate change leads to longer, more severe fire seasons.
Is kindergarten too young for students to get excited about STEM? No way, says assistant professor Morgan Vigil-Hayes, who is partnering with FUSD to develop a curriculum to get K-5 Native American students doing fun learning activities that focus on math and computational thinking.
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The award for Amanda De La Torre, which is the largest CAREER grant an NAU researcher has received to date, will also fund training of graduate and undergraduate researchers in molecular lab techniques, greenhouse work and bioinformatic analyses.
Planetary astronomer. Latina scientist. Mentor. Trailblazer. And now, emerging scholar. Assistant professor Cristina Thomas has been named an Emerging Scholar by the leading education magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The publication recognizes an interdisciplinary group of early-career minority scholars who represent the best of U.S. academia.
Accurately measuring blood flow is critical to our understanding of cardiovascular disease and clinical decision making, but reliable data is still difficult to generate in large quantities. An NSF grant will support bioengineer Amir Arzani in improving the accuracy of cardiovascular flow computer models through machine learning. The grant will also enable his team to create a STEM education program leveraging visualization and storytelling to show the ‘hidden beauty’ in fluid mechanics computer modeling.
A $2.1 million NIH grant will enable Northern Arizona University mechanical engineer Zach Lerner to launch a major clinical trial to test a treatment strategy for children with cerebral palsy using a lightweight, wearable robotic device.
In one of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the 21st century, NASA recently launched the James Webb Space Telescope—and NAU astronomers, planetary astronomers and their students will be using the massive observatory to advance our understanding of the solar system.
How do climate change and human-elephant conflict affect household food security in Africa? NAU wildlife conservationist Duan Biggs spent three years with an international team of researchers investigating the dynamics between wildlife, people and the environment on the African savannah to better understand how both climate change and human-elephant conflict can impact household food insecurity in the region.
Northern Arizona University researchers Crystal Hepp and Jason Ladner are among the first class of early-career scientists who received funding for high-profile research projects aimed at preparing for viruses that may emerge in humans and evaluating the most effective tools to respond immediately.
A team of NAU engineers is working to create bikes that are aware of road hazards, upcoming safety concerns and efficiency to make cycling, already an ecofriendly mode of transit, a more popular mode as well.
Northern Arizona University is a key partner in a project that has been recognized for its work in achieving one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—goals designed to protect and sustain all life on Earth amid a changing climate.
Can we impact an incoming asteroid enough to move it out of range of hitting Earth? A test mission, which is being launched Tuesday, will do a practice run on an asteroid in NASA's first planetary defense mission.
The tiny cosmos of organisms living on a streamer of algae in a river could help scientists learn what turns an environment from healthy to toxic and back again. A multidisciplinary team led by NAU has won $3 million from the NSF to translate the codex contained in the microbiome of common algae into computer algorithms that can predict a wide range of microbial interactions.
Based on preliminary findings from their research into renal and breast cancer, biochemists Archana Varadaraj and Narendiran Rajasekaran were recently awarded $469,000 by the National Institutes of Health to apply those findings to a potential treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a serious, irreversible lung disease affecting more than 100,000 Americans.
Today's supply chain problems are the result of long-term changes to manufacturing and supply chain management and short-term issues related to COVID, the economy and governmental action.
In a first-of-its-kind warming experiment, researchers at Northern Arizona University found that microbes growth rate decreased over 15 years of warming. The research, published this week in Global Change Biology, showed that under warmer climate conditions, growth decreased among all types of microbes in the community, and suggested that a loss of soil carbon may be responsible for the slowdown.
Researcher Logan Berner was recently awarded $718,000 from the NSF to study how increased human development in the Arctic affects caribou herds against the backdrop of climate change. By partnering with Indigenous conservation managers and agencies in Alaska and northern Canada, Berner and his team hope to contribute in several important ways to the science of the changing Arctic through the lens of caribou ecology, land-use change and impacts on local communities.
Two NAU astronomers presented groundbreaking research this week at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, a branch of the American Academy of Sciences.
As the climate changes and land, air and water are at risk, Native Americans, Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples are seeing their water sources dry up and their land disappear under rising sea levels. under attack from rising global temperatures. Researchers at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals brought together a diverse group of more than 100 authors to produce a first-of-its-kind report that provides an in-depth looks at what tribal nations are doing to protect against the climate crisis.
Team of NAU paleoclimatologists contribute to major report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forming scientific underpinnings for negotiations to limit carbon emissions worldwide
The team, led by PI Deborah Huntzinger and co-PIs Michelle Mack and Victor Leshyk of Northern Arizona University, will create Polar Explorer, a tool that uses virtual reality to transport students to the Arctic.
The findings from Northern Arizona University's Ecological Restoration Institute suggest mobile platforms have great potential for monitoring a variety of forest attributes.
A study, published in Nature and is co-authored by Northern Arizona University professors Benjamin Ruddell and Richard Rushforth, looks at the importance of diversity within the supply chain, which helps to reduce damaging disruptions from supply chain shocks.
Research specialist Melissa Boyd and Regents' professor Michelle Mack from Northern Arizona University led the study, which demonstrated the long-term effects of climate change on this vegetation.
Zach Lerner leads the Biomechatronics Lab at NAU, where he studies the use of robotics to help improve the gait of people with walking disabilities. The outcomes for this project have the potential to transform treatment of walking disabilities across a wide range of conditions.
Associate professor Laura Wasylenki co-authored a new paper in Nature Communications that presents the results of nickel isotope analyses on Late Permian sedimentary rocks. The results demonstrate the power of nickel isotope analyses, which are relatively new, to solve long-standing problems in the geosciences.
Jut Wynne, director of NAU's Cave Ecology Lab, talks about cave health all the time. But during 2021, the International Year of Caves and Karst, he and other researchers are inviting the rest of us to consider all the ways these ecosystems contribute to society without us even knowing it.
Just a few bacterial taxa found in ecosystems across the planet are responsible for more than half of carbon cycling in soils, according to new findingsfrom researchers at Northern Arizona University.
The study, led by biologist David Wagner, provides a plausible explanation for how Francisella tularensis can overwinter in the environment outside of a host.
Machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces
New research published in special issue of Sustainability co-edited by NAU researcher finds that biodiversity commitments will be key to freshwater protection
The team of scientists built a reliable, real-time emissions estimate system to inform and correct public policy as the United States takes on a new pollution reduction target.
The ranch in northern Arizona is a transition zone between piñon/juniper and ponderosa pine ecosystems and has a dynamic ecosystem where species are visibly shifting and responding to global environmental change. The donation allows for the land to remain in its natural state, protecting it from grazing and development.
The study, led by Ecoss director Bruce Hungate and co-authored by many other NAU researchers, found that these predatory bacteria, which eat other bacteria, play an outsized role in how elements are stored in or released from soil.
The study, led by professors Michael Shafer and Heidi Feigenbaum, demonstrates that ‘cavatappi’ artificial muscles, which are based on the shape of Italian pasta, exhibit specific work and power metrics 10 and five times higher than human skeletal muscles, respectively, and up to about 45 percent efficiency.
The study, led by NAU's Michelle Mack, began after the 2004 fire season in Alaska, which led to a dramatic shift in the trees that grew in the area. Researchers found the aspen and birch trees absorbed more carbon more quickly than the black spruce it replaced.
Psychological sciences professor Ronda Jenson is leading a team of researchers in supporting the success of neurodivergent students in higher education, with the goal of increasing the pipeline into STEM careers.
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