Life, Earth & Space

  • Tom Sisk ag
    Tom Sisk: Conserving through CollaborationResearch Profiles | 1/31/2013

    Tom Sisk: PhDProfessor of EcologyDirector, Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation BiologyCollege of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural SciencesEnvironmental conservation...

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  • american gut ag
    NAU Bioinformatics Professor to Study Microbes on Office SurfacesResearch News | 1/31/2013

    Most North Americans spend 95 percent of their time indoors where they are exposed to bacteria and fungi. Yet these microbial communities have largely gone unstudied. New...

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    NAU compostingResearch Video | 1/30/2013

    From Waste to Soil...

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    NAU Undergrad Itching To Discover How Fleas Spread Plague Featured Story | 1/24/2013

    Health officials in the Four Corners region of the United States continue to wrestle with a persistent plague pandemic that has the potential to infect humans. Northern...

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  • Food recovery ag
    NAU's Food Recovery Program: Gateway to a Zero-Waste Campus Research News | 1/22/2013

    Competition in the kitchen usually involves cooking prowess, but “back of house” staff at Northern Arizona University (NAU) are trying to outdo one another in a much...

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  • american gut ag
    What Bacteria Live Inside Our Bellies? Research News | 1/7/2013

    Bacteria in our bellies help us break down the food we eat, but not everybody’s digestive track is the same. In fact, a new research project, called American Gut, is trying...

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  • Artificial Bat Houses ag
    Artificial bat housesResearch Video | 12/17/2012

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  • Beier ag
    Paul Beier: Leading International Conservation Efforts Research Profiles | 12/17/2012

    Paul Beier: PhDProfessor, Conservation Biology and Wildlife EcologyCollege of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural SciencesWildlife corridors are saving populations of...

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  • Burning Necessity ag
    Controlled Forest FiresWorth 1000 Words | 12/4/2012

    Prescribed fires are a necessary part of a healthy forest. Forest thinning and controlled burns help prevent catastrophic wild fires. From a distance, the smoke from these...

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  • keim profile ag
    Paul Keim: Decoding Genetic MysteriesResearch Profiles | 12/4/2012

    Paul Keim: PhDRegents' Professor of BiologyDirector, NAU Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics (MGGen)Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology College of Engineering,...

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